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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
HISTORICAL RECORD
OF THE
I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
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FROM
A.D. I7IS TO A.D. IQOO
BY
COLONEL HENRY BLACKBURNE HAMILTON
M.A. CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD : LATE COMMANDING THE REGIMENT
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
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IN THIS THE FIRST YEAR
OF HIS MAJESTY'S
REIGN
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TITLES OF THE REGIMENT
1715. Raised as Dormer's Dragoons.
(Numbered as Fourteenth Dragoons.)
1776. The Fourteenth Light Dragoons.
1798. The Fourteenth, or the Duchess of York's Own Light
Dragoons.
1830. The Fourteenth, or the King's Light Dragoons.
1861. The Fourteenth, or King's Hussars.
BADGES AND DISTINCTIONS CONFERRED
BADGES
1751. The White Horse of Hanover authorised for the Guidons
by Royal Warrant.
1798. Royal authority given to assume the Prussian Eagle as
a Regimental Badge.
1832. Authorised to bear the King's Crest on the Appointments,
and the Prussian Eagle on the second and third
corners of the Regimental Guidon.
DISTINCTIONS
1815. 'Peninsula.'
1820. ' Talavera '— ' Fuentes d'Onor '— ' Salamanca '— ' Vittoria '
— ' Orthes.'
1837. 'Douro.'
1852. c Punjaub '— ' Chillianwallah '— ' Goojerat.
1859. 'Persia.'
1863. 'Central India.'
CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA
At page xiii, line 18, for ' nephew ' read ' cousin.'
At page 55, line 14 —
For ' it was defeated by the French ' read ' it defeated the French.'
For ' its gallant leader killed ' read ' its gallant leader was killed.'
At page 65, footnote2, add after the word ' succeed ' : ' £a Ira,' the name
of a French revolutionary air, was adopted as a Regimental March by the
1 4th Foot after the taking of Famars, in Flanders, in 1793. Both Mr. F. A.
Hawker and Mr. Adolphus Hawker are of opinion that the song was used by
the I4th Light Dragoons in the Peninsula when their father (Sir S. Hawker)
was commanding the regiment, and they consider he became acquainted with
the air when serving in Flanders in the i6th Light Dragoons. ' £a Ira, 1810,'
is quoted in All the Year Round (New Series), No. 877, p. 60, Sept. 1885.
At page 414, footnote 1, for ' Vicars-Maxims' read ' Vickers- Maxims.'
PREFACE
THIS Historical Record of the i4th (King's) Hussars from its
first formation as Dormer's Dragoons up to the present time,
is not intended to be a complete and exhaustive history of that
distinguished corps, but rather an attempt to supply in a com-
pact form and in chronological order an authentic record of the
stations where it has been from time to time quartered ; the
battles, sieges, and other military operations in which it has
been engaged ; honorary distinctions which it has gained ;
changes in its establishment, uniform, and equipment ; how it
has been recruited at various times ; its reviews and inspections ;
names of its officers ; memoirs and services of its colonels and
lieutenant- colonels ; together with other matters which are
likely to be valued not only by the officers and soldiers who
have served, who are now serving, and who may hereafter
serve in its ranks, but also by their friends and others interested
therein. In addition to this there have been inserted coloured
sketches of its past and present uniforms and former guidons,
as well as some portraits of the colonels and commanding
officers from time to time.
The Fourteenth is one of the most illustrious regiments in
the British cavalry. Long before it was immortalised by Lever
in Charles O1 M alley, the Irish Dragoon, it had gained for
itself a name as a famous fighting regiment with plenty of
esprit de corps, and was especially noted for the superior style
in which its officers and men performed their outpost duties, so
that at the close of the Peninsular War it had the reputation of
x HISTORICAL RECORD OF
being the finest light cavalry regiment the British army ever
possessed. It bears on its banners twelve marks of distinction,
beginning with ' Douro,' which is borne by no other cavalry
regiment, and ending with 'Central India,' where it fought
gloriously and fully sustained its former high reputation. As
the regiment is now engaged on active service in the field in
South Africa, it may yet achieve further distinctions and add
fresh laurels to its present ample store, which is surpassed
by only two cavalry regiments and equalled by only two
others.
In the process of compiling the historical record of a
regiment, one would naturally expect to find a continuous
store of information on the chief points required to form
the basis of such a work in ' The Regimental Digest of
Services,' J kept in the orderly-room of every regiment in Her
Majesty's service, and duly posted up from time to time.
In the Fourteenth, however, these 'Regimental Records'
happen to be very meagre : there are some important events
omitted, there are several gaps in the continuity of events, and
for nearly the first hundred years, that is up to 1808, there
is no mention of the places where the regiment was stationed.
The explanation is that when crossing the Pyrenees with
Wellington's army on the loth November 1813, the night
before they set foot on French territory, the I4th Light
Dragoons had their baggage captured by the enemy, and
with it disappeared all their precious regimental books and
documents.
Under these circumstances it became necessary, when com-
piling this Record, to obtain the required information elsewhere,
and after a very satisfactory search of original War Office
documents deposited in the Public Record Offices in London
1 Commonly called ' Regimental Records.'
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xi
and Dublin, the exact stations of the regiment for each year
have been ascertained with the exception of those for the years
1721 to 1726 and for 1743 and 1744, and all we know is that
the first-named six years were passed by the regiment some-
where in Ireland, and the latter two years in Great Britain.
The Historical Record of the i\th Light Dragoons, by Richard
Cannon, Esqre., published in 1847, has been taken as the founda-
tion of this work up to that date, and all admirers of regimental
histories should be very thankful to him for the care and
accuracy he brought to bear on his numerous works of that
class.
The author has the greatest possible pleasure in acknow-
ledging the obligations he is under to the following kind friends,
and at the same time takes this opportunity to return them his
grateful thanks for the help and assistance they have given
him : —
Captain C. COTTRELL- DORMER of Rousham, Oxon. (late
1 3th Hussars), for portrait of his ancestor, Lieutenant- General
James Dormer, founder of the regiment.
F. A. HAWKER, Esquire, of Eaglehurst, Bracknell, Berks,
and ADOLPHUS HAWKER, Esquire, late of the War Office, for
portrait of General Sir S. Hawker, G.C.H., their late father;
and also for the words of the old regimental song of the i4th
Light Dragoons used in the Peninsular War when Sir S.
Hawker commanded the regiment.
Captain J. H. TREMAYNE, Adjutant, i3th Hussars, for
extracts from MS. journal written in the Peninsular War, with
reference to the time when the i3th and i4th Light Dragoons
were brigaded together and nicknamed the ' Ragged Brigade,'
1813-14.
Major R. M. RICHARDSON, i4th Hussars, for portrait of
Colonel J. Townsend, A.D.C., who commanded the regiment
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1829-45; and for several portraits of old colonels and
lieutenant-colonels from the album of the Officers' Mess at
Newbridge, 1897.
Major- General the Honourable HERBERT EATON, late
Grenadier Guards, for copy of War Office roll of the officers
and men of the i4th Light Dragoons who were among the
recipients of the War Medal given in 1848 by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria to the survivors of the wars.
Sir ALBERT WILLIAM WOODS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Garter
King of Arms, and Inspector of Colours to Her Majesty's
Army, for the benefit of his kind advice as to the badges of
the regiment.
S. M. MILNE, Esquire, of Calverley House, near Leeds, for
portraits of Lord Southampton and General Louis Dejean,
both colonels of the i4th Dragoons, as well as for much kind
advice and valuable information as to the old uniforms of the
regiment, a subject on which he is a well-known authority.
Colonel the Right Honourable A. W. B. EARL BROWNLOW,
A.D.C., for a portrait of the Earl of Bridgewater, Colonel of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons, his ancestor.
Sir ARTHUR E. HAVELOCK, G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I. E.,
for portrait of his late father, Lieutenant-Colonel William
Havelock, K. H., killed at Ramnuggur when in command of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons in 1848.
Captain H. R. GALL, late 7th Royal Fusiliers, for the
perusal of some interesting letters written by his late father,
Major-General R. H. Gall, C.B., a distinguished officer of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons, who served through the Punjaub
and Central India campaigns.
Captain the Honourable J. BERESFORD, 7th (Q.O.) Hussars,
for portrait of Major-General A. Scudamore, C.B., who com-
manded the 1 4th Light Dragoons, 1861.
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Messrs. INNES and Co., late of Bedford Street, Strand,
for permission to use or reproduce maps and plans in The
Sikhs and the Sikh Wars, by General Sir Charles Gough,
V.C., G.C.B., and A. D. Innes, Esq., M.A. (published by
Innes and Co., London, 1897).
J. H. SYLVESTER, Esq., F.G.S., late of 2nd Regiment
Mayne's Horse, for permission to use or reproduce the map
showing the route of the Central India Field Force, pub-
lished in his Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and
Central India ( 1 860).
Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. ENGLISH, late commanding
1 4th Hussars, for facilities of access to the 'Regimental
Digest of Services ' at Newbridge in 1897.
Colonel G. H. C. HAMILTON, Major E. D. J. O'BRIEN, and
Captain R. G. BROOKSBANK, i4th Hussars, for information as
to the campaign in South Africa.
The portrait of General H. E. Doherty, C.B., was kindly
given by his nephew, Major D. H. DOHERTY, late 3rd (King's
Own) Hussars.
Miss MURRAY kindly supplied the portrait of her late
father, General the Hon. Sir Henry Murray, K.C.B., and
Mrs. R. O. MILNE that of her late father, General H. Richmond
Jones, C.B.
The portrait of Major-General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart.,
was obtained by the kindness of his great-grandson, Colonel
Sir JOHN MONTAGU BURGOYNE, Bart., to whom the original
painting by Romney belongs.
Mrs. FRANK VANDELEUR kindly supplied the picture of
General Sir J. O. Vandeleur, G.C.B., from which the photo-
gravure was reproduced.
There are also numerous other kind friends and former
brother-officers and some now serving in the i4th Hussars
xiv HISTORICAL RECORD OF
who have helped the author by giving him useful hints and
information during the compilation of his work, and by re-
plying to his queries, and to one and all of these he takes
this opportunity of thanking them sincerely for their kind
assistance. He would also add, that of the old officers of
the Fourteenth who, from the first, have given him their best
encouragement, as well as much useful information, are Viscount
Chetwynd, Captain R. P. Apthorp, and the late General
C. W. Thompson, Colonel of the i4th (King's) Hussars.
The late Colonel the Honourable G. H. Gough, C.B.,
when employed at the War Office as Private Secretary to the
Commander-in-Chief (Viscount Wolseley), was good enough
to supply the author with those interesting anecdotes of the
Peninsular War by the late General Sir T. W. Brotherton,
G.C.B., and obtained permission from the family for their
publication in this book. He also kindly supplied a copy of
the Jhansi, Calpee, and Gwalior despatches of Major- General
Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., from which extracts will be found in
the Appendix.
The portrait of Field-Marshal John Campbell, fifth Duke
of Argyll, is from an oil painting by Gainsborough, lately
in Argyll Lodge, Kensington, which His Grace the late
Duke of Argyll kindly gave the author permission to have
photographed.
It remains for the author to acknowledge with his grateful
thanks the help he has received from the following on various
occasions : —
Lieutenant-Colonel C. Greenhill Gardyne, Glenforsa, Isle
of Mull, N.B.
Major H. Davidson, Cantray, Croy, N.B.
F. Leach, Esq., War Office, London.
G. Smith, Esq., War Office, London.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xv
Hubert Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Public Record Office, London.
Herbert Wood, Esq., Public Record Office, Dublin.
Mr. H. M. Winder, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Mr. Henry Pridgeon (late i4th Hussars), St. Anne Street,
Liverpool.
The author had the advantage of conversing with, pro-
bably at the time, the oldest survivor of the I4th Light
Dragoons, Mr. Sweeney, warder of the Tower of London,
who had many long yarns to spin of his old soldiering days
which commenced in King William iv.'s reign. He served
with the 1 4th Light Dragoons through the Punjaub and
Indian Mutiny campaigns, and died about two years ago,
leaving a widow.
All those interested in Light Dragoons in general, and
the Fourteenth in particular, should read Charles O Malley,
published in 1847 under the authorship of ' Harry Lorrequer,'
with illustrations by ' Phiz.' The following is the well-known
song which Captain Richard Power of the Irish Dragoons
(the 1 4th) sang at the mess in Dublin when the officers were
trying to induce ' Charles O'Malley ' to join their corps (he
being then a student at Trinity College) : —
THE IRISH DRAGOON
(Air — ' Love is the soul of a gay Irishman.')
Oh ! love is the soul of an Irish Dragoon,
In battle, in bivouac, or in saloon —
From the tip of his spur to his bright sabretache.
With his soldierly gait and his bearing so high,
His gay laughing look and his light-speaking eye,
He frowns at his rival, he ogles his wench,
He springs in his saddle and ' chasses ' the French —
With his jingling spur and his bright sabretache.
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His spirits are high and he little knows care,
Whether sipping his claret or charging a square —
With his jingling spur and his bright sabretache.
As ready to sing or to skirmish he 's found,
To take off his wine or to take up his ground ;
When the bugle may call him, how little he fears
To charge forth in column, and beat the Mounseers —
With his jingling spur and his bright sabretache.
When the battle is over, he gaily rides back
To cheer every soul in the night bivouac —
With his jingling spur and his bright sabretache.
Oh ! there you may see him in full glory crowned,
As he sits 'mid his friends on the hardly-won ground,
And hear with what feeling the toast he will give,
As he drinks to the land where all Irishmen live —
With his jingling spur and his bright sabretache.
There are, besides Charles O'Malley, two other books
more recently published which are entirely about the i4th
Light Dragoons and the I4th Hussars, both written by non-
commissioned officers who have served in the regiment, which
are extremely interesting and well worth reading, viz. —
Scraps from my Sabretache, by G. C. Stent (W. H. Allen
and Co., London, 1882); A Kings Hussar, by Herbert
Compton (being reminiscences of Troop Sergeant- Major Edwin
Mole), late i4th Hussars (Cassell and Co., 1896).
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xvii
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL
AUTHORITIES QUOTED
PRINTED BOOKS
Historical Record of the \&tth King's Light Dragoons. By RICHARD CANNON, Esq.
London: Parker, Furnival and Parker. 1847.
Narrative of the War in the Peninsula, 1808-1813. By General CHARLES VANE,
Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel loth Hussars. 1828.
History of the Indian Mutiny. By KAYE and MALLESON. 6 vols. London :
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898.
Scraps from my Sabretache, By G. C. STENT, M.R.A.S. London: W. H. Allen
and Co. 1882.
Historical Record of the First or Royal Regiment of Dragoons. By General DE
AINSLIE, Colonel of the regiment. London : Chapman and Hall. 1887.
Recollections of the Campaign in Malwa and Central India under Major- General Sir
Hugh Rose, G.C.S. By J. H. SYLVESTER, Esq., F.G.S., 2nd Regiment Mayne's
Horse. Bombay : Smith, Taylor and Co. 1860.
The Sepoy Revolt. By General McLEOD INNES, V.C. London : Innes and Co. 1897.
History of the Highland Clans. By JAMES BROWNE. 3 vols., 8vo. Glasgow. 1843.
The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars. By General Sir CHARLES GOUGH, V.C., G.C.B., and
A. D. INNES, Esq., M.A. London : A. D. Innes and Co. 1897.
Historical Journal of the British Campaign on the Continent, with the Retreat
through Holland, 1794-95. By Captain L. J. JONES, loth Regiment. Bir-
mingham. 1797.
Memoirs of the loth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales' s Own). By Colonel R. S.
LIDDELL, late commanding loth Royal Hussars. Illustrated. London :
Longmans. 1891.
Old Memories. By General Sir HUGH GOUGH, V.C., G.C.B. Blackwood. 1897.
Biography of General Sir James Outram, Bart., G.C.B. , K. C.S.I. By Major- General
Sir F. G. GOLDSMID, K.C.S.I., C.B. 1880.
History of the War in the Peninsula and the South of France. By Lieutenant-
General Sir WILLIAM NAPIER, K.C.B. 6 vols. London : Frederick Warne
and Co. ' Chandos Classics.'
Narrative of the Second Sikh War, 1848-49. By E. J. THACKWELL, Esq., late
A.D.C. to General W. Thackwell, C.B. London : Richard Bentley. 1851.
(2nd Edition revised.)
b
xviii HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Standards and Colours of the British Army. By S. M. MILNE, Esq. 1893.
Historical Record of Medals and Honorary Distinctions conferred on the British Navy
and Army and the Auxiliary Forces from the earliest periods. By Captain T.
TANCRED, late Royal Scots Greys. London : Spink and Co. 1891.
Book of Dignities. London : W. H. Allen and Co. 1890.
Dictionary of National Biography. London : Smith, Elder and Co. 1895.
Historical Record of the i tfh Light Dragoons. By RICHARD CANNON, Esq. London :
J. W. Parker. 1842.
Historical Record of the i&h (Queeris) Light Dragoons (Lancers). By RICHARD
CANNON, Esq. London : J. W. Parker. 1842.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
Army Lists.
Burke's and Foster's Peerages and Baronetages.
The London Gazette.
Bulletins, Despatches, and London Gazette.
Illustrated London News. 1849.
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, London. 1895.
Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army. War Office, 1822,
1831, 1846, 1855, 1857, 1864, 1874, 1883, 1894, and 1900.
Times. Army and Navy Gazette. Broad Arrow.
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Marching Orders.
Muster Rolls.
Marching Books.
Army Returns.
MS. Army Lists.
Public Record Offices,
Pay Lists. London and Dublin.
General Officers' Letter- Books.
Review Reports and Inspection Returns.
Routes.
Book of Licences (Military).
Regimental Digest of Services, I4th Hussars (Orderly-Room, New-
bridge, 1897).
War Office Books (Establishment, Moves, Miscellany, Honorary
Distinctions, etc.). Pall Mall, London.
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CONTENTS
PACK
PREFACE, . ..... ix
HISTORICAL RECORD
YEAR
1715. Formation of Dormer's Dragoons in South Britain, numbered
1 4th Dragoons, . . - . .'; ' '. '•-••.' . i
Names of the Officers, . . . f- . '. i
Engaged at Preston with the Jacobites, '".•'.'' • .- *' -'.'•" i
1716. Quartered in Lincolnshire, .^ Y • r ; v .- • ';. • '" 4
1717. Embarked for Ireland, -:•* '"• v';) V '•*-'. ' "-•.'•' ^ 4
1742. Returned to Great Britain, . . . ;fc.» ;.; 12
1745. Engaged with the Jacobites at Prestonpans, and proceeded
to Newcastle, . . . . - • . . I3~I5
Returned to Scotland, . . . , ^ • 16
1746. Engaged with the rebels at Falkirk, . o .• - . . 16
1747. Embarked for Ireland, . . . . . 18
1751. Clothing warrant issued and guidons regulated by George n.
Uniform scarlet, facings lemon-yellow, silver lace, . 19
1768. Clothing warrant of George in., .«. .-. *•„ .>;] • -.. 27
1776. Constituted a corps of Light Dragoons, .,;. . '. 32
1784. Uniform changed from scarlet to blue, * -.-.'. . . 34
1794. Two troops embarked for Flanders, . ,;, , «•. 39
1795. Embarked for the West Indies, . . , . 41
1797. Returned to England, . .. . . ^, . 46
1798. Styled the 1 4th Duchess of York's Own Light Dragoons, . 48
Authorised to bear the Prussian Eagle; Facings changed
from lemon-yellow to orange, . .49
1808. Embarked for Portugal, . . . .^ . 54
1809. Engaged at Oporto and Douro, r.., 56
Engaged in front of Talavera, . • ./ 60
Engaged at Talavera, .... , r. „, • 61
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YEAR PAGE
1810. Engaged at Sexmiro, ...... 66
Engaged at Coa, ...... 69
Engaged at Frexadas, ..... 71
Skirmish at Mortagao, .... 71
Engaged in front of Busaco, . . . . . 71
Retreat to Torres Vedras, . . . . 75
Action at Rio Mandevilla, .... 75
Affair at Sobral, . . . . . .76
1811. Affair at Venta de Serra, ..... 78
Skirmishes at Pombal, Redinha, Casal Nova, Foz d'Aronce, . 78
Affair at Sabugal, . . . . . . 79
Affairs at Gallegos and Pogo Velho, . . 80
Battle of Fuentes d'Onor, . . 81
Affair at Carpio, . . . . . . 89
1812. At the siege and capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, . . . 93
At the siege and capture of Badajos, .... 94
Affair at Usagre, near Villa Franca, . . . . 95
Affair at Alaijos, . . . . . . 97
Affair at Castrillos, . . . - . . . 97
Battle of Salamanca, ...... 98
Affair at Penaranda, . . . . . .103
Affair at Blasco Sancho (Corporal Hanley), . .104
Advance on Madrid, . . . . . . 1 1 1
Retirement from Madrid, . . . . . 1 1 1
Engagement at Matilla, . . . .113
General Paget taken prisoner, . . . .113
Behind the Agueda, . . . . . . 113
1813. Advance into Spain, . . . . .117
Engaged near Burgos, . . . . . 117
Affair at Pancorba, . . . . . . 118
Battle of Vittoria, . . . . . . 119
Pursuit of the French to Pampeluna, . . 120
Pursuit to the Pyrenees, . . . . . 120
Capture of a party at Ostiz, . . . . . 120
Capture of a party at Roncesvalles, . . . 120
Capture of ' The Emperor,' . . . . .120
Engaged in the Bastan Valley, . . .124
Skirmish at Almandoz, t , , . . 125
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YEAR PAGE
1813. Skirmish at Pass of Maya, . . . . . 125
Passage of the Nivelle, . . . . . v 126
Passage of the Nive, . . . ' *, lt \ .-/. f ;••.")' 128
Affair near Mendionda, . . ./ ..V. . 128
Affair at Hasparren, . . . i-.-i >, - .: 128
Affair near Cambo, . . ,. ^ • . . 138
1814. Action at Garris, . . . .. ". . . 140,147
Action at Sauveterre, . . . •»,;>.. ~vi 141
Battle of Orthes, . . .... . /. j . 142,148
Engaged at Aire, .. y&us : ;* :, f -,-* • • -.-.-.r- .143,149
Engaged near Pau, . :^.i '> = ,• uJan :.v- .143,150
Engaged at Tarbes, . . . 7< • ,;•' 144
Engaged at St. Gaudens, . . •. . 145
Battle of Toulouse, . . . . : . . 145, 151
End of Peninsular War, . .,. . .. . 146,152
Affair at Clarac, . - . .' . . . 150
Affair at Castel Paget, . . . . . 151
Affair at Vic Bigorre, . . . . . . 151
Embarked for England, . . . . . 158
Reviewed at Hounslow, . . . .' . 158
General Sir T. W. Brotherton, G.C.B., .. . . 176
Embarked for North America (Gulf of Mexico), . . 177
1815. Embarked for England, . . . . * ' . 179
Returned to Hounslow, . . :,, " , 179
1816. Embarked for Ireland, ,rv;4 . .»• . . 180
1819. Returned to England, . . ... . 182
1822. Reviewed at Hounslow, . . 186
1825. Embarked for Ireland, . ... 187
1828. Returned to England, . . . . , 188
1830. Quartered at Brighton, . . . . . 189
Reviewed in London by King William iv., and authorised to
bear the title of the i4th (King's) Light Dragoons, . 189
Uniform changed from blue to scarlet, . . , ; , 1 90
1831. At Birmingham, Coventry, and Gloucester, . . y 191
Engaged in quelling riots at Bristol, . :~.t . ,-; 192
Orange facings changed to blue, . . ,., > 194
1832. Quartered at Hounslow for the Royal Escorts, ;?./; ;. 195
Authorised to bear the King's Crest, . ,, • • •• v, • I95
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YEAR PAGE
1833. Embarked for Ireland, . . . . 196
1834. Guidons discontinued, . 197
1836. Embarked for Scotland, . 198
1838. Returned to England, . . '. . 199
1839. Reviewed at Windsor by Queen Victoria, . . 202
1840. Uniform changed from scarlet to blue, and facings changed
from blue to scarlet, . . . •• . . 204
1841. Left Canterbury, and embarked at Gravesend for Bombay, . 206
At Kirkee, . . . . . - 206
1843. Two squadrons proceeded to Kolapore, . . 208
1845. Two squadrons returned from Kolapore, . . 208
Marched to Bengal, .... 209
1846. At Umballa, ..... . 210
1848. At Ferozepore and Anarkullee (Lahore), . . . 211
One squadron with the expedition into Sikh territory, . 211
Regiment proceeded on service with Army of the Punjaub
under Lord Gough, . . . . 212
Engaged at Ramnuggur on the Chenab, . . . 213-22
1849. Engaged at Chillianwallah, . . . 224-32
Engaged at Goojerat, ...... 233-40
Pursuit to the Khyber, . . . . . 241
At Lahore, . . . . . . 242
1851. At Meerut, ...... 243
1854. Ordered to Crimea, ..... 245
I^55- Orders for Crimea countermanded, .... 246
At Kirkee, ..... . 246
1857. Proceeded on service to Persia, . . . 247
At capture of Mohamra, . .250
Returned to Kirkee, . . . . . . 251
Proceeded to the Deccan, Sattara, and Kolapore on service, . 251
At Aurungabad, . . . . . 253
At Boldana, ....... 255
At Dhar, . • . . • . . . 258-61
With the Malwa and Nerbudda Field Forces at Mundesor, . 262
Engaged at Goraria, . . . . . . 264-67
At Indore, . . . . . . 268
With the Central India Field Force, . . . . 268
Right wing at Sehore, . .".... 269
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xxiii
YEAR PAGE
1858. Marched from Mhow and Sehore with ist and and Brigades
Central India Field Force, ,.,<. V* f ja'i • • 273
At Rathgur, . . . . . ..--.-. 274
Engaged at Barodia, . . . .,,, ; . , 275
Engaged at Garrakota, . . . . . 277
Forced the Muddenpore Pass, . . . 279
Engaged at Chanderi (Central India), . , . . . 280-82
At Jhansi, .... ,;..,, ,.<, ., 283
Siege of Jhansi, .- ^ ,- .1 '. „ .; 287
Battle of the Betwa, . ;.. , . ,. ; . .;; ry. 289
Lieutenant Leith gains the Victoria Cross, . . > 294
Storming of Jhansi, . . . .... . 297
Major Gall storms a hill at Jhansi, . „ . . 298
Escape of the Ranee, . . . . • • 298
Capture of Jhansi, . . . , . 298
Lieutenant-Colonel Gall captures Lohari Fort, , . . 300
Battle of Koonch, . , . ,. . . 301-305
March on Calpee, . . . 305
Fortress of Calpee, . .... 307
Engagement near Golowlee, . . . 308
Capture of Calpee, . . 311
March on Gwalior, . . . .312
Capture of Morar cantonments, . : , 313
Death of the Ranee of Jhansi, 314
Gwalior Fort captured, .* 317
Engaged at Jowra-Alipore, . .. . 319-20
Services of the Central India Field Force, . . .320-21
Ranode, defeat of Ferozshah, , • 324-26
1858-9. Description of Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, C.B., , . 328
1859. At Kirkee, , 33 l
1860. Embarked for England at Bombay, . .- , 332
At Newbridge, .. . . .* '.- •••• 332
1861. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales dines with regiment, . 335
Converted into Hussars; uniform blue, busby-bags yellow,
plumes white, . . ,r . • 335
At Dundalk, . . . ... 335
1862. At Manchester, . . . ..; 33^
1864. At Aldershot, . . . . *. » - 337
xxiv HISTORICAL RECORD OF
YEAR PAGE
1866. At Hounslow, . "; •. . . . . 338
At Buckingham Palace for Hyde Park riots, . . . 339
1867. Quartered in Scotland, . . . . . 340
1868. Embarked for Ireland, . . . . . 341
At Newbridge, .... v > . 341
At Dublin, . . . . . . ' . 341
In south of Ireland on election duty, . . ;•' . 342
1869. Squadron system introduced, . . . . . 343
At Curragh Camp, ...... 344
Quartered at Longford, Limerick, Curragh Camp, and Castlebar, 344-45
1869- } Detached on election duty and in aid of the civil power to
7°- j various places, . . . . . . 345-46
1870. Troop system restored, ; 345
At Cahir, Fethard, Fermoy, Waterford, Clogheen, Carrick-on-
Suir, and Clonmel, ..... 346
1871. At Ballincollig, Cork, Fermoy, Bandon, Limerick, and Clogheen, 347
1872. Employed on election duty in County Kerry and in Galway, . 348
1872-3. At Newbridge and the Curragh, .... 349-50
1873. At Dublin, ..... . 350
1874. Embarked for England, . . . . . 350
At Aldershot, . . . . . . . 351
1875. At Colchester, . . . . . . 352
1876. Embarked for Bombay, ..... 354
Depot to Canterbury, . . . . . . 354
At Bangalore, . -355
1877. Lord Lytton, Governor - General of India, dines with the
officers, and visits regimental theatre, . . . 356
1878. Ordered on active service in Afghanistan, . . . 357
Order countermanded, . • . . . . 358
1880. Lieutenant- Colonel Arbuthnot introduces new regimental
march, 'The King of Prussia,' . . . . 359
1 88 1. Embarked for active service in South Africa, . . - . 359
Landed at Durban, . . . . . -359
Marched into the Transvaal, . . . . . 360
New army pay and promotion warrant issued, . . . 360
At Ladysmith, ...... 360
Embarked for Bombay, ..... 362
1882. At Secunderabad, . . . . . 362
1883-4. At camps of exercise under Lord Roberts, . . . 364-65
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xxv
YEAR PAGE
1886. Embarked for England, . . . ' ' . . 367
At Shorncliffe Camp, . . . . ' . k 367
1887. At Jubilee Review, Aldershot, . . . . 369
Regimental Firing Team won Cambridge Challenge Shield at
Wimbledon, . . . . . . 370
1888. Duke of Cambridge lunched with the officers, . . 372
In camp at Aldershot for summer drills, . . •<• 372
At Brighton and Hilsea, i> ' . '.• .'••'• . 373
1889. Regimental Almanack revised and published by Lieutenant-
Colonel H. B. Hamilton, ..... 373
At Aldershot in camp for summer drills, . . . 374
Reviewed by the Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, . 375
1890. 'The Derby' won by Captain Sir James Miller's chestnut
colt 'Sainfoin,' . . . . . -377
Regimental Firing Team won the Cambridge Challenge Shield
at Bisley (second time), . . . . -377
At Cavalry Manoeuvres in Berkshire, . . . . 378
At Hounslow, Hampton Court, and Kensington, . . 379
Officers' ' Dress-Call ' for Mess introduced by Colonel H. B.
Hamilton, ...... 380
1891. Regimental 'Standing Orders' introduced and published by
Colonel H. B. Hamilton, . . . . .381
On duty at Windsor during Emperor of Germany's visit, also
in London, Wimbledon, and at the Crystal Palace, . 382-83
At Aldershot for summer drills, . . . . 383
Regimental Firing Team won the Cambridge Challenge Shield
at Bisley (third time), . . . . .384
At Leeds and Birmingham, ..... 384
1892. At Strensall Camp for summer drills, . . . 385
At Manchester, ...... 386
1893. Employed in aid of the civil power in North Wales, . . 387
Martini- Metford carbines issued, . '. . . 388
1894. At the opening of the Manchester Canal by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, ...... 389
Embarked for Ireland, . . . . ' . 389
At Cahir, Fethard, Waterford, and Limerick, . . .' 389
1896. At Curragh Camp for summer drills, . . . 392
Lee-Metford magazine carbines issued, . . . 392
Detachments sent to Clogheen and Carrick on-Suir, . . 392
xxvi HISTORICAL RECORD OF
YEAR PAGE
1897. The new pattern cavalry saddle introduced, . . . 396
At Newbridge and Curragh Camp, . ." . 398
1899 Ordered to mobilise up to war strength, . . 400
Embarked for England, . . .402
At Aldershot, . . . . . , .402
Embarked for active service in South Africa, , . 404
1900. Engaged in the campaign against the Boers, . . 404-29
Major Brown gains the Victoria Cross, . . 419
MISCELLANEOUS
Regimental Almanack, . . . . . .431
Regimental Music, .... -435
Table of services at home and abroad, . . 446
Changes in establishment since 1800, . . 447
Changes in uniform since 1715, . 448-52
Guidons, 1715-1834, . . 453'54
Regimental plate, pictures, etc., . . . 455-56
Regimental race cups and lists of winners, .... 457-60
Races won by officers, 1873-90, 1895, an^ 1899, . . 461
Succession of Colonels, . . . . . . 462
Succession of Lieutenant-Colonels, . ... 463
Succession of Adjutants, ...... 465
Memoirs and Services of the Colonels, .... 467-84
Memoirs and Services of the Lieutenant-Colonels, . . . 484-510
List of officers, Dormer's Dragoons, 1715, . . . . 511
Lists of officers, NevilPs Dragoons, 1730 and 1736, . . 511, 512
Lists of officers, Hamilton's Dragoons, 1740 and 1745, . 512, 513
List of officers, Lord Tyrawley's Dragoons, 1752, . . . 513
Alphabetical list of officers, 1 4th Dragoons, 1715-54, . . . 514-16
Army Lists, 1754-1901, ... . 5l7-$9
List of warrant officers, 1881-1900, ..... 560
APPENDIX A (Ramnuggur and Chillian wallah), . . . 561
APPENDIX B (Central India), ..... 582
APPENDIX C (South Africa), . ... 614
INDEX, 621
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xxvii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COLOURED PLATES
BY WILLIAM GRIGGS
BADGES AND DISTINCTIONS OF THE REGIMENT, . . Frontispiece
TROOPER, 1715 AND 1742, . . to face page 12
GUIDONS OF THE REGIMENT, 1751, , „ 2o
LIGHT DRAGOON, 1776, . .; ,, 32
OFFICERS, 1808 AND 1812, ... . „ 54
LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1815 ; SERGEANT (Summer Dress), 1831, . „ 178
OFFICERS, 1819, . . ,, 182
GUIDONS OF THE REGIMENT, 1798 AND 1832, . „ 194
GROUP, 1836, . . . . . . „ 198
LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1841; OFFICER, 1851, . . , ,, 204
OFFICERS AND LIGHT DRAGOON, 1859, . . < . ,, 330
OFFICER OF THE REGIMENT (Review Order), 1891, . „ 380
OFFICER AND HUSSAR (Marching Order), 1894, „ 388
GROUP (Undress), 1899, ... „ 400
GROUP (Khaki), 1900, ... . ,, 404
xxviii HISTORICAL RECORD OF
PHOTOGRAVURES
BY W. L. COLLS
ROYAL PATRON
His MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY WILLIAM THE FOURTH, KING
OF ENGLAND, Etc. Etc. Etc., .... to face page 190
(Engraving published 1830 by Henry Dawe, from a
miniature by J agger, the property of Countess of Enroll.)
ROYAL PATRONESS
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERICA (PRINCESS ROYAL OF
PRUSSIA), DUCHESS OF YORK, „ 48
(Published by J. Sewell 1791. From the European
Magazine. Engraved by Bromley. Painted by Cun-
ingham.)
COLONELS
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JAMES DORMER, ., i
(Photographed by H. W. Taunt, from oil painting by
Vanlo in collection of Captain Charles W. Cottrell-
Dormer of Rousham, Oxon.)
FIELD-MARSHAL JOHN CAMPBELL, FIFTH DUKE OF ARGYLL, . ,, 24
(Photographed by M. Jacolette, of Queen's Gate Hall,
South Kensington, from oil painting by Gainsborough
in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Argyll.)
GENERAL SIR JOHN O. VANDELEUR, G.C.B., . . ,, 186
(Engraving by Villain of a portrait by Z. Belliard in the
collection of Hector S. Vandeleur, Esq.)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM BECKWITH, K.H., . . „ 192
(Copy photograph by Debenham and Gould, Bourne-
mouth.)
GENERAL THE HON. SIR HENRY MURRAY, K.C.B., . . „ 244
(Photographed from a pencil sketch (face coloured) by
Cosway, belonging to Miss Murray of Wimbledon
Lodge.)
GENERAL CHARLES W. THOMPSON, ...."„ 364
(Photo, Fradelle and Young, 283 Regent Street, W.)
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xxix
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CLEMENT NEVILLE (OR NEVILL), . to face page 468
(Engraving by John Brooks, from painting by Hoar.)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Louis DEJEAN, „ 472
(Engraving by I. Faber. Painted by Ph. Mercier.)
GENERAL CHARLES FITZROY, FIRST LORD SOUTHAMPTON, . „ 474
(From the plate after Sir Joshua Reynolds, by permis-
sion of Henry Graves and Company, Limited.)
GENERAL JOHN W. EGERTON, EARL OF BRIDGEWATER, . „ 476
(From a drawing by Edridge, 1805, in the collection of
the Right Hon. the Earl of Brownlow, etc. etc.)
GENERAL SIR EDWARD KERRISON, BART., G.C.H., K.C.B., . ,, 478
(Engraving by W. G. Edwards. Painted by M. A.
Shee, R.A. Published in 1818 by Edwards and Boydell.)
GENERAL H. R. JONES, C.B., ....,, 482
(Photo, Bullock Brothers, now Draycott, 138 The
Parade, Leamington.)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. CHARLES W. THESIGER, . „ 484
(Copy of photo, Lafayette, 30 Westmoreland Street,
Dublin.)
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS COMMANDING
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN BURGOYNE, BART., . . „ 30
(Photo by M. Jacolette, from oil painting by Romney
in the collection of Colonel Sir John Montagu Bur-
goyne, Bart.)
COLONEL JOHN TOWNSEND, A.D.C., „ 188
(Photo by Charleton and Son, Newbridge, Ireland, of an
old oil painting of 1829, in Officers' Mess, I4th
Hussars.)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CHARLES STEUART, C.B., . . ,, 256
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
MAJOR-GENERAL A. SCUDAMORE, C.B., . „ 334
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
MAJOR-GENERAL P. S. THOMPSON, C.B., „ 338
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
xxx HISTORICAL RECORD OF
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL F. P. CAMPBELL, . . to face page 352
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
COLONEL JOHN H. KNOX, . . . . . „ 360
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
COLONEL CHARLES F. MORTON, . . . . „ 366
(Photo, Thomas Fall, 10 Baker Street, Portman Square, W.)
COLONEL HENRY B. HAMILTON, „ 370
(Photo, J. Edwards (H. Walter Barnett, successor), i
Parkside, Hyde Park Corner, S.W.)
LlEDTENANT-COLONEL A. F. ENGLISH, . . ., 392
(Photo, F. O. Devereux, 98 Western Road, Hove.)
GENERAL SIR SAMUEL HAWKER, G.C.H., . . . 488
(Photo from an oil portrait in possession of his son.
F. A. Hawker, Esq., Eaglehurst, BracknelL)
COLONEL SIR F. B. HERVEY, BART., C.B., K.H., A.D.C., . „ 490
(Photo by H. W. Salmon, Winchester, from oil painting
in the collection of Sir Frederick Bathurst, BarL, of
Sombome Park, Stockbridge.)
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM HAVELOCK, K.H., . . „ 492
(Photo copy by Debenham and Gould, Bournemouth,
from an old portrait in possession of his son, Colonel
Havelock.)
GENERAL H. E. DOHERTY, C.B., „ 496
(From an old stereoscopic daguerrotype by Claudet of
Regent Street.)
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WILLLAM RUSSELL, BART., C.B., . „ 498
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, C.B., „ 502
(Copy photo, Debenham and Gould.)
COLONEL THE HON. G. H. GOUGH, C.B., „ 506
(Photo, A. Bassano, 25 Old Bond Street.)
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL G. H. C. HAMILTON, . . . „ 510
(Photo, Charles Knight, 18 Queen's Road, Aldershot.)
SHAKO-PLATE AND BUTTONS (from a photograph), . . „ 449
FOUR STATUETTES (from a photograph), . . „ 456
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS xxxi
MAPS AND PLANS
BY EDWARD STANFORD
PAGE
British Isles, ...... between 10 and n
Flanders, Holland, and Germany, 1794-1795, facing 40
Hayti and St. Domingo, 1795-1797, \
• » 44
Gulf of Mexico, 1814-1815,
Peninsula and South of France, . . . between 96 and 97
Theatre of the Punjaub Campaign, 1848-1849, . facing 212
The Punjaub and Surrounding Districts, . . „ 242
Persia, 1857, . „ 248
Central India, . . . . . „ 270
South Africa, 1900, . . between 4060^407
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
1715
GEORGE I. George:.,
1715.
THE regiment now styled 'The Fourteenth (King's) Hussars'
was raised by Brigadier-General James Dormer in South
Britain, and was originally known as ' Dormer's Dragoons.' i4th, or
The first officers were appointed as follows by commissions
dated 22nd July 1715, six troops being the establishment of
the regiment : —
Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets.
James Dormer (Col.). James Stevens (Capt.-Lt). Edward Stroud. Colonel—
H.Killigrew(Lt-CoL). Henry Lasale. Thomas Ellis. g°«cr<
Sol Rapin (Major). Peter Davenport. Thomas Delahaye. Lieutenant-
Henry Pelham. Jonathan Pirke. William Hamilton. Colonel— H.
William Boyle. Cuthbert Smith. Rigley Molyneux. *
Beverly Newcomin. James Fleming. Andrew Forrester.
In November the newly raised men of ' Dormer's Dragoons'
were brigaded with ' Pitt's Horse,' under their own Colonel,
Brigadier-General Dormer, and advanced with other forces
commanded by Major-General Wills towards Preston. An Engaged at
engagement ensued with a body of the Pretender's rebels, November
and being directed to dismount, Dormer's Dragoons formed I7IS-
as infantry, and did good service in the attack on the avenue
leading to Lancaster. They lost three men and sixteen
horses killed, and Brigadier-General Dormer and four men
were wounded.
2 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1715
Browne, in his History of the Highland Clans, relates how
that General Wills had been ordered to collect all the forces
he could to march on Warmington Bridge, Preston, so as to
prevent the insurgents from advancing on Manchester. When
the insurgents entered Preston, Wills was at Manchester, and
he decided to march at once upon Preston with such troops
as he had.
On the nth November he left Manchester for Wigan
with four regiments of dragoons — Honeywood's (nth), Dor-
mer's (i4th), Munden's (i3th), Wynne's (9th) — Pitt's Horse,
Churchill's, Molesworth's, and Preston's regiments of foot.
He reached Wigan early in the evening, and met Stanhope's
Dragoons and Houghton's Militia there, they having retired
from Preston on the Qth inst.
Amongst the Jacobite leaders in Preston were Lord Ken-
mure, the Earls of Derwentwater, Nithsdale, and Wintour,
Lord George Murray, old Borlume (Mackintosh), and Forster.
They were taken aback by the news of Wills's advance.
Lord Kenmure was apprised by letter, and came to Forster to
consult him. It was resolved to send out a party of horse
towards Wigan to watch the enemy and to secure the pass into
the town by the Ribble Bridge. At daybreak on the I2th
November, General Wills left Wigan. His van consisted of
Preston's regiment of foot preceded by an advanced guard of
fifty musketeers and fifty dragoons on foot. Then followed —
Honeywood's Dragoons, Dormer's Dragoons, Munden's
Dragoons, with the baggage in rear escorted by fifty dragoons.
So soon as the approach was known, a select body of 100
well-armed Highlanders under Farquharson of Invercauld was
posted at Ribble Bridge, and Forster himself at the head of
some horse advanced over the bridge to reconnoitre. Lord
George Murray had command of a barrier at the end of a
lane leading to a field : this was attacked by Dormer's
Dragoons, who acted very bravely though exposed to a mur-
derous fire from the houses. They carried part of the barrier,
were repulsed after a time by the defenders, and again pressed
1715] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 3
forward with a vigorous attack, when, after displaying great
courage and resolution (although only newly raised troops),
they were a second time beaten back with loss.
The attack on the windmill barrier, which was defended
by Colonel Mackintosh, met with a similar fate.
After this, General Wills set fire to the houses, and next
day General Carpenter with reinforcements arrived to help
the Royalists. This opportune occurrence quite turned the
tide of events : the Jacobites began to think of surrender,
actually opened negotiations, and on the I4th November,
headed by Lord Kenmure and other Scots noblemen, together
with Colonel Mackintosh and Mr. Forster, they surrendered
at discretion. There were 1468 prisoners, of whom 463
were English. The Jacobites lost seventeen killed, twenty-five
wounded ; the losses of the Royalists were five times that
number.
Preston had been defended by four barriers, but General
Wills being short of troops on his first day of assault could
only attack two barriers, those commanded by Mackintosh
and Murray, and he divided his troops into three bodies
for attack : —
The first, under Brigadier Honeywood, who had the foot
regiments.
The second, under Brigadier Dormer, who had Dormer's
Dragoons (i4th), Wynne's Dragoons (gth), and a
squadron of Stanhope's Dragoons (afterwards dis-
banded).
The third, under Brigadier Munden, who had Pitt's Horse
(2nd Dragoon Guards), Munden's Dragoons (i3th), and
a squadron of Stanhope's Dragoons forming in support.
Cannon says : ' The first barrier was carried with great
gallantry, the second or inner barricade could not be forced
for want of cannon ; but after the houses had been set on fire,
the troops prevented the escape of the rebels.'1
1 Historical Record of the i^th Light Dragoons ^ p. 3.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1716-
Regiment
proceeds to
Ireland.
Lieutenant-
Colonel —
Sol Rapin.
Dormer's Dragoons were employed to escort prisoners to
Lancaster gaol, and remained at Lancaster for the next six
months.
1716
In May the regiment marched into cantonments at Lincoln
and neighbouring towns, such as Sleaford, Newark, and Gains-
borough.
1717
Dormer's Dragoons marched in May to Bristol and em-
barked for Ireland, where they remained for the next twenty-
five years. Adjutant George Thornborough was reduced with
the regiment to two shillings per diem half-pay, being only
twenty years of age, as appears in the Army List for 1 740.
It is probable the regiment was quartered shortly after
arrival in scattered detachments through the west of Ireland,
and for part of the year at Foxford (near Ballinrobe), Carrick-
drumrush, Boyle, Collooney, and Castlebar. An order, dated
6th June 1717, was issued for it to proceed, on landing in
Ireland, to certain quarters, named ' according to the within
route,' but the route is missing.
In the Military Licences Book at the Public Record Office,
Four Courts, Dublin, there is an entry allowing Major Sol
Rapin, of Brigadier James Dormer's Dragoons, ' to be absent
from his command for six months, from June 30, in considera-
tion of his wounds received in your service, for the recovery of
his health,' dated 5/8/1 717. There are also entries as follows : —
Licence, dated 18/9/1717, for Cornet Thos. Ellis (Dormer's
Dragoons) to be absent in Great Britain for three months.
Leave from muster, ending 30/9/1717, granted to Captain
Beverly Newcomin and Lieutenant Cuthbert Smith of
Dormer's Regiment of Dragoons.
Major Sol Rapin was Lieutenant- Colonel in 1717.
To Cornet Rigley Molyneux of Brigadier Dormer's
Dragoons, a Licence of 24/12/1717, 'to go into Great Britain
1719] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 5
about his own affairs, and to be absent out of this Kingdom
for the space of three months from this date.'
To Peter Pickering, Chaplain to Brigadier Dormer's
Dragoons, a Licence, dated 22/12/1717, 'to continue in Great
Britain upon extry occasions, and be absent from his post
in your said regiment for the space of three months from this
date'; and there is an order, dated and signed 31/12/1717,
' to remove the cheques put upon the several officers and
private men of Dormer's Dragoons for three months ending
30/9/1717.'
Major William Boyle became Lieutenant-Colonel vice Lieutenant-
Lieutenant-Colonel Rapin.
1718
Brigadier Dormer's Dragoons received an order, dated
3ist May 1718, to march from their present quarters according
to the following route :—
i Troop from Foxford, via Ballinrobe, 4th June, to
Nenagh barracks, arriving i4th June.
i Troop from Carrickdrumrush on nth June to Charle-
ville barracks, arriving 2ist June, via Elphin.
i Troop from Boyle, via Elphin, 4th June, to Cappoquin
barracks, June i6th.
i Troop from Collooney, via Boyle, 6th June, to Tallow
Town, 1 7th June,
i Troop from Castlebar, via Ballinrobe, 5th June, to
Mallow barracks, i6th June.
i Troop from Castlebar, via Ballinrobe, 9th June, to
Tallow Town, 2ist June.
1719
In pursuance of an order, dated i4th March, Dormer's
Dragoons moved as follows : —
i Troop from Tallow to Charleville Town.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1720-
i Troop from Cappoquin to Charleville Town.
i Troop from Nenagh to Bruff and Kilmallock Towns.
1 Troop at Charleville ) i , . , • j r
_ r _, „ V already there, remained fast.
2 I roops at Mallow J
In May another move commenced, and the regiment became
located as follows : —
i Troop (the Brigadier's) to Downpatrick (one-half to
barracks, one-half to town),
i Troop (Colonel Boyle's) to Lisburn Town,
i Troop (Colonel Diggs's) to Carrickfergus (one-half to
barracks, one-half to town).
i Troop (Captain Newcomin's) to Dromore Town,
i Troop (Captain Stevens's) to Carrickfergus barracks,
i Troop (Captain Morin's) to Downpatrick.
N.B. — The Lisburn Troop subsequently moved to Killy-
leagh.
On Qth November an order came for the regiment to
proceed to Mullingar : ij troops went to barracks, and the
remainder (4^ troops) to the town of Mullingar.
It appears in an old book of Military Licences deposited at
the Public Record Office, Dublin, that an order, dated 22nd May
1719, was issued to Brigadier Dormer's Regiment of Dragoons,
to allow Mr. Henry Pickering, the chaplain, 'to continue in
Great Britain about his own affairs, and to be absent out of
this Kingdom (Ireland) for six months from ist January, the
time his former Licence expired.'
Colonel —
Clement
Neville.
Lieutenant-
Colonel— B.
Newcomin.
1720
The regiment remained on in quarters at Mullingar. On
9th April, Brigadier James Dormer became Colonel of the 6th
Regiment of Foot ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Clement Neville
from the I3th Dragoons became Colonel of the regiment.
Major B. Newcomin became Lieutenant -Colonel on ist
December.
1727] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 7
1721
For this and the following five years, no record has been
found of the stations at which the regiment was quartered in
Ireland.
1722
In Ireland.
1723
In Ireland.
1724
In Ireland.
1725
On 25th March, Lieutenant William Hamilton, with
Quartermaster Charles Waldegrave and some non-commis-
sioned officers, went to Great Britain for three months for the
purpose of buying recruit horses for the regiment.
At this period Newcomin was still the Lieutenant-Colonel,
and the captains were Dilkes, Pearce, Bowles, and Smith.
1726
From ist October to 3ist December of this year, Lieu-
tenant William Hamilton, accompanied by i sergeant of
Lieutenant-Colonel Newcomin's troop, was employed in
England in buying recruit horses for the regiment.
1727
GEORGE II. George II.,
1727.
The regiment was quartered, i troop (the Colonel's) at
Collooney, 5 troops at Sligo.
8 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1728
1728
Colonel Neville's Dragoons marched at the end of May to
new quarters, as follows : —
i Troop (the Colonel's) from Collooney to Nenagh
barracks,
i Troop (Major Smyth's) from Sligo to Loughrea
barracks,
i Troop (Lieutenant-Colonel Newcomin's) from Sligo
to Headford barracks,
i Troop (Captain Pearce's) from Sligo to Portumna
barracks.
i Troop (Captain Dilkes's) from Sligo to Charleville
barracks,
i Troop (Captain Bowles's) from Sligo to Mallow
barracks.
The whole regiment was in its new quarters by i2th June.
On 25th June, 4 troops received an order to march early
in July as follows : —
i Troop, Nenagh to Mallow,
i Troop, Portumna to Loughrea,
i Troop, Headford to Loughrea,
i Troop, Charleville to Mallow,
leaving i troop in Mallow barracks and i troop in Loughrea
barracks. The order directed, that 'when the troops above
named are reviewed by the Right Honourable the Lord
Viscount Shannon, they are to march back to their respective
quarters,' etc. The review was conducted by wings, 3 troops
being inspected at Mallow and 3 at Loughrea.
1729
On 6th June, Colonel Neville's Dragoons commenced to
march as follows : —
The Colonel's troop, Nenagh to Birr, and later to
Castlebar.
1731] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 9
Lieutenant-Colonel Newcomin's, Headford to Bally-
shannon barracks.
Major Smyth's, Loughrea to Ballyshannon barracks.
Captain Pearce's, Portumna to Newport- Pratt barracks.
Captain Dilkes's, Mallow to Headford barracks.
Captain Bowles's, Charleville to Castlebar (half troop
to town and half troop to barracks).
Shortly after arrival the regiment got orders to march and
be reviewed by General Honey wood as follows, a wing (4
troops) to Loughrea; a squadron (2 troops) to Enniskillen,
returning to former quarters after the inspection.
1730
In June the regiment moved as follows : —
Colonel's troop, Castlebar to Longford barracks.
Lieutenant- Colonel's troop, Ballyshannon to Granard
barracks.
Major's, from Ballyshannon to Mullingar barracks.
Captain Pearce's, from Newport-Pratt to Tuam.
Captain Dilkes's, from Headford to Phillipstown barracks.
Captain Bowles's, from Castlebar to Navan barracks.
The whole 6 troops were reviewed at Mullingar by
Major-General Naper in August, and returned to their respec-
tive stations afterwards.
On 3oth November the 6 troops marched to Dublin, and
were assembled there in barracks by 9th December.
1731
On 1 7th June, Colonel Neville's Dragoons marched from
Dublin via Dundalk, etc., to fresh quarters.
The Colonel's and Captain Pearce's troops to Saint-
field barracks, near Hillsborough.
Lieutenant-Colonel Newcomin's and Captain Bowles's
troops to Carrickfergus barracks.
io HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1732-
The Major's and Captain Dilkes's troops to Killough
barracks.
Subsequently 2 troops left Carrickfergus and Saintfield
(i from each), and proceeded to Killyleagh and Downpatrick
(i to each).
Lieutenant- Henry Desgrangues became Lieutenant-Colonel on i2th
Senses- November.
grangues. 1 732
A route, dated loth June, directed Neville's Dragoons to
proceed from present quarters as follows : —
1 Troop to Lifford.
2 Troops ,, Ballyshannon.
2 ,, ,, Castle Dawson.
i Troop ,, Collooney.
Three troops were reviewed by General Wynne at Sligo,
and 3 troops at Castle Dawson by Major-General Price.
1733
From 4th to igth June the regiment moved as follows :—
i Troop from Collooney, and i troop from Bally-
shannon to Hamilton's Bawn.
i Troop from Ballyshannon to Dungannon barracks.
The i troop at Lifford and 2 troops at Castle Dawson
remained there.
The 6 troops were reviewed in June at Dungannon, and
on 24th June they marched from their respective stations to
Sligo, arriving there 9th July.
1734
The regiment remained in Sligo during this year.
1735
On yth July the regiment moved from Sligo to Belturbet,
Collooney, Roscommon, Cavan, and Ballyshannon.
One squadron at Ballyshannon ; and i troop at each of
the other stations. The march was completed by i2th July.
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1736
A change of stations took place in June : —
i Troop went from Roscommon to Loughrea.
i Troop from Belturbet to Granard ; i troop, Cavan
to Gort.
i Troop, Collooney to Headford ; and 2 troops moved
from Ballyshannon — i to Cavan and i to Belturbet.
Major-General Lord Molesworth reviewed 3 troops in
June at Cavan ; and 3 troops were reviewed by Lieutenant-
General Naper at Loughrea, viz. the Gort, Headford, and
Loughrea troops. Lord Molesworth reviewed the Cavan,
Granard, and Belturbet troops.
1737
On 2Oth June, Neville's Dragoons marched as follows : —
i Troop, Loughrea to Mullingar.
i ,, Headford ,, Phillipstown.
i ,, Gort „
i „ Cavan „ „
i „ Belturbet ,, Navan.
i ,, at Granard remained there.
This change was completed by the 25th of June.
On 27th June, Brigadier Neville went to the 8th Dragoons, Colonel—
and Colonel Archibald Hamilton, from 27th Foot, became Hamilton.
Colonel.
W. Wright became Lieutenant-Colonel 7th February, and Lieutenant-
Captain Michael O'Brien Dilkes was appointed Major on i4th Wright."
February. The regiment was reviewed at Phillipstown, the
three detached troops returning to outquarters afterwards. In
December the regiment moved as follows : — Captain Bowles's
troop from Granard ; the Colonel's troop from Mullingar ;
Captain Norris's from Navan ; and Major Smith's, Major
Dilkes's, and Lieutenant-Colonel Wright's from Phillipstown, to
Dublin, where the whole regiment was then concentrated under
its newly appointed commander, Colonel Archibald Hamilton.
12 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1738-
1738
In May, Hamilton's Dragoons proceeded as follows : — 2
troops to Killough, and i troop each to Downpatrick, Saint-
field, Carrickfergus, and Killyleagh. Subsequently 2 troops
moved to Castle Dawson, 2 to Ballyshannon, i to Collooney,
and i to Lifford ; and later in the year 2 troops from Bally-
shannon went to Hamilton's Bawn, and i from Collooney to
Dungannon.
1739
The regiment was stationed at Lifford, Castle Dawson,
Dungannon, and Hamilton's Bawn.
1740
In May, i Troop marched from Lifford to Athlone.
2 Troops „ ,, Castle Dawson to Athlone.
1 Troop ,, „ Dungannon to Bandon.
2 Troops ,, „ Hamilton's Bawn, i to
Middleton Town (beyond Cappoquin), and i (Major Dilkes's)
to Castlemartin Town.
In July the 6 troops began to march to Sligo barracks, the
last troop arriving by 2ist August.
1741
The regiment remained in Sligo.
Captain Richard Bowles became Major, i3th May.
1742
Regiment pro- The regiment came to Great Britain after twenty-five years'
BCri?ain? Great service in Ireland, marching in May from Sligo to Belfast and
Donaghadee, where the embarkation took place.
On ist January of this year Colonel Archibald Hamilton
was advanced to the rank of Major-General.
1745] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 13
1743
There appears to be no record of where the regiment was
stationed in England during this and the following year.
1744
At this period the establishment was 6 troops of 59 troopers
each, total 354 (but the total strength, with officers and non-
commissioned officers, came to 435), and the amount of pay
for the whole corps for 366 days amounted to .£19,684, 143.
1745
The regiment was on the move in Scotland and North of
England, being employed against the Jacobite rebels.
During this year the young Pretender, Prince Charles
Edward Stuart, raised his father's standard in Scotland. The
1 4th Dragoons were ordered to Stirling; thence they pro-
ceeded to Leith, and were stationed there when the rebel
army advanced on Edinburgh.
Being ordered to join the troops under Colonel Gardiner,
who, with the i3th Dragoons, was retiring before the rebels,
the 1 4th Dragoons marched through Edinburgh on Sunday,
1 5th September, and effected a junction with Colonel Gardiner
at Corstorphine, whence they fell back to Coltbridge, and
thence towards Haddington. On the night of the 2oth Sep-
tember the regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wright, fur-
nished vedettes and flanking patrols for the king's army at
Prestonpans. The army was under the command of Lieutenant-
General Sir John Cope, who advanced from Dunbar to confront
the insurgents at Edinburgh, where they had established
themselves on the i5th. A battle took place on 2Oth September. prestonpans,
Prestonpans was lost; but Major Bowles, i4th Dragoons, «»* September
particularly distinguished himself when the outposts were
driven in by the Highlanders in the dark morning mist which
enveloped the field.
i4 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1745
THE BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS OR GLADSMUIR.
Browne, in his History of the Highland Clans, narrates how
that at dawn of day Cope's picquets on his left flank heard the
tramp of the enemy, and as soon as Cope himself was apprised
of the advance of the Highlanders, he gave orders to change
his front to the east In doing this some confusion took place,
as some of the advanced guards got in the way of the main
body and prevented two squadrons of Gardiner's Dragoons
(i3th), which had been posted on the right of General
Cope's line, from forming properly ; so that, owing to want of
room, the squadron under the immediate command of Colonel
Gardiner drew up behind the one commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Whitney, and the artillery was now in front of
Whitney's squadron. The intervening ground between the
two armies was level and good for cavalry, but the Scots
came on so rapidly with their attack, that Cope was quite
unable to make any use of it in time. There was a thick
mist over the cornfields which prevented the two armies
from seeing one another. The Camerons attacked Cope's
cannon, which was on his right, and routed it. Whitney's
squadron attempted to charge, but the Camerons set up a
loud shout, rushed past the cannon, and shot at the dragoons.
Lieutenant -Colonel Whitney was wounded. The Scottish
swordsmen came on, sword in hand, and caused the squadron
to fall into disorder, owing to the Highlanders slashing at
the noses of the horses, which caused the dragoons to wheel
about, and in their retreat they rode over the artillery guard,
also in retreat Colonel Gardiner received orders to charge
the Highlanders with his squadron and stop their advance,
and he did his best, but his men were shaken, and com-
menced to retire before the onward rush of the Highlanders
as their comrades and the artillery had already done. Colonel
Gardiner fought gallantly and was badly wounded. Cope's
infantry made no better stand : the men seemed utterly de-
moralised and unable to stem the furious onset of the Scots,
1745] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 15
and many threw down their arms and fled. Hamilton's
Dragoons ( 1 4th) were posted on Cope's left, and behaved no
better than the rest of his troops, but followed their bad
example in falling back when the sudden and violent onslaught
of the Highlanders was made. It is certain, however, that
their officers behaved with great courage and bravery, and
did their best to rally the men at this critical juncture, and
the troopers did halt now and again and faced the enemy, but,
according to Cannon,1 their sudden advance in the dark, their
superior numbers and peculiar mode of fighting, struck the
Royalists with consternation. Lieutenant -Colonel Wright
commanded the i4th Dragoons on this occasion. Several of
his officers and some of the private soldiers behaved with
great gallantry, and highly distinguished themselves — par-
ticularly so Major Bowles, whose horse was killed, and the
troopers who rallied round him were all cut down. Major
Bowles was surrounded by the enemy, but continued to fight
on foot, when, having received eleven wounds, a rebel leader
interposed and saved his life. Browne further relates how
that even Sir John Cope himself, with the Earls Howe and
Loudon, tried to rally 450 of the dragoons on the west side
of Preston village at a favourable spot, but this effort proved
ineffectual, and in the end the royal troops with their com-
mander were routed. The brave Colonel Gardiner (i3th
Dragoons) who commanded the cavalry in this battle fell on
the field. He was a veteran of Marlborough's army, a truly
good soldier, distinguished by personal bravery and many
Christian virtues.
Gardiner was first shot in the breast, and was afterwards cut
down by a Highlander with a scythe fastened to a pole, and, as
he fell, another Highlander gave him a mortal blow on the head.2
After this battle the Fourteenth marched to Berwick.
They afterwards joined the army assembled under Field-
Marshal Wade at Newcastle, and when the rebels came
1 Cannon's Historical Record of the \\th Light Dragoons^ p. 6.
3 Cannon's Historical Record of the \^th Light Dragoons, p. 16.
16 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1746
down into Derbyshire, they were employed in covering
Yorkshire.
Subsequently, when the young Pretender retreated hurriedly
into Scotland, the regiment was sent to Edinburgh, and joined
a few regiments assembled there under Lieutenant-General
Hawley.1
Mr. Peter Vatass was appointed chaplain to the regiment
on 24th December.
1746
The rebels besieged Stirling Castle on returning to Scot-
land, and Lieutenant-General Hawley set the king's troops
in motion to oppose the besiegers. On I3th January, Hamil-
ton's Dragoons left Edinburgh and helped, with other forces,
to drive a body of the rebels out of Linlithgow. They after-
wards encamped near Falkirk.
Battle of It was on Falkirk Moor, on the I7th January, that the
1746. King's army met with a repulse in the midst of a heavy storm
of wind and rain which nearly blinded them. Browne relates
that the Royalists were drawn up as follows : —
Lieutenant-General Hawley, Commander-in-Chief, took
the centre.
On the right was Major-General Huske.
On the left was Brigadier Cholmondeley, and Ligonier, now
Colonel of the 1 3th Dragoons, commanded the cavalry,
which consisted of three regiments of dragoons, viz. Cob-
ham's (loth), Ligonier's (i3th), and Hamilton's (i4th).
Colonel Ligonier's own regiment was posted on the ex-
treme left, Cobham's regiment in the centre, and Hamilton's
Dragoons on the right. There was no artillery employed.
Hawley's force numbered 10,000 men; the enemy had 8000
men, but they had the best ground, and the wind and driving
rain were on their backs at the moment the two armies
advanced to battle. At the outset, Ligonier's Dragoons
were fired at fiercely by Lord George Murray's High-
1 Cannon's Historical Record of the \A,th Light Dragoons.
1746] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 17
landers, and many were killed and wounded ; this caused great
panic amongst Ligonier's and Hamilton's Dragoons, who could
not maintain their ground. It appears from Cannon1 that
this battle was a surprise : the troops of the Royalists were
at dinner in camp when the approach of the rebel army was
descried, and hurriedly moved towards some high ground
on Falkirk Moor, where the insurgent bands were formed.
The action was commenced by a charge of the cavalry which
broke the enemy's first line and did some execution ; but the
second line of insurgents made a furious onslaught which
proved successful and repulsed the dragoons. This is the
occasion referred to above by Browne, who also narrates that
the English losses in the battle were 280, and those of the
Scots 200. Lieutenant-Colonel Whitney of Ligonier's regiment
(i3th Dragoons) was amongst the slain. After this the infantry
was brought up into the fight, as stated by Cannon,2 but a heavy
storm of wind and rain beat so violently in the soldiers' faces
as nearly to blind them, and the wet prevented their muskets
giving fire. Several regiments retired somewhat in disorder,
others maintained their ground and repulsed the Highlanders,
and after dark the whole Royalist army withdrew to Linlithgow
and Edinburgh.
Colonel Ligonier with the dragoons covered this retreat,
but being drenched with rain and benumbed with cold, he was
seized with an inflammation in the throat, of which he died on
the 25th January. He had previously suffered from pleurisy,
and was bled and blistered on the i4th January, but no con-
sideration could keep him from his duty, so he left his bed to
command the brigade of dragoons at this battle, and led the
opening charge of cavalry with great spirit.3
The Duke of Cumberland was subsequently sent to com-
mand the King's army in Scotland, and made an advance on
Stirling, whereupon the rebels hastily retired northwards,
pursued by the Royalists. The Fourteenth (Hamilton's
1 Historical Record of the \$th Light Dragoons, pp. 7 and 8. 2 Ibid.
3 Cannon's Historical Record of the \$th Light Dragoons, p. 19.
B
i8 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1747-
Dragoons) were left behind with orders to . patrol along the
roads leading westward from Edinburgh, to prevent the rebels
obtaining intelligence.
The Duke of Cumberland was victorious, and at Culloden,
on 1 6th April, he completely overpowered the Highlanders
and put an end to the rebellion. Subsequently Prince Charles
Edward Stuart, with much difficulty, effected his escape into
France.1
1747
Regiment Hamilton's Dragoons returned this year to Ireland, and
ireknd. remained in that country till 1795, a period of forty-eight
years. In 1747 they were stationed at Carrickfergus, Castle
Dawson, and Killough, after landing in Dublin in the early
part of the year. On I7th August, Mr. Thomas Irving was
appointed surgeon to the regiment. He was the first surgeon
of the Fourteenth, and remained with the regiment till the
2Oth October 1774, when he was succeeded by Mr. George
Borthwick.
A new set of buff accoutrements was issued this year.
The six troops were thus designated : —
The General's troop. Captain Clark's troop.
The Lieutenant-Colonel's Captain Hamilton's
troop. troop.
The Major's troop. Captain Bailie's troop.
Major-General Archibald Hamilton was the Colonel ; William
Wright, the Lieutenant-Colonel ; James Norris, the Major.
Previous to this date, and even to the end of George ii.'s
reign, our regiments were generally known by the name of
their Colonel, who in these early times took a very active
part in the affairs of his regiment, and often accompanied it
on active service, and more resembled the present Lieutenant-
Colonel commanding a regiment than the full Colonel who is
purely an honorary officer at the present day.2
1 Cannon's Historical Record of the \\th Light Dragoons^ p. 8.
2 Lidd ell's Memoirs of the \oth Royal Hussars.
1750 THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 19
1748
In June, Hamilton's Dragoons marched from the north of
Ireland to Clonmel and Mallow. After being reviewed there,
2 troops remained stationed at Clonmel and i at Mallow ;
the other 3 proceeded—
i to Cappoquin and Tulla.
i to Charleville.
i to Doneraile.
This year a licence for three months was granted for Recruiting.
Cornet James Baily of Captain Bailie's troop to go into Ulster
with a sergeant, corporal, and drummer of the same troop,
to raise recruits for the regiment.
1749
Lieutenant-General Archibald Hamilton, Colonel of the Colonel—
regiment, died on 8th July, and Lieutenant-General James, TyTawiey?'
Lord Tyrawley, from loth Regiment of Foot, became Colonel.
Some new swords were issued. The regiment was reviewed
by Lieutenant-General Bragg at Phillipstown in June. Three
troops remained there, 2 troops marched to Tullamore, and i
troop to Mullingar barracks. Major Norris became Lieutenant- Lieutenant-
r*«1^,,> 1 Colonel —
V-OlOnei. James Norris.
1750
The regiment was quartered at Athlone, Castlebar, and
Granard.
1751
The regiment marched to Sligo barracks, and arrived there
on the 20th June.
On ist July, the clothing of the army was regulated by 1 4th Dragoons,
royal warrant of H.M. King George n. as follows :— SS^rifli
lemon-yellow
facings.
I4TH DRAGOONS.
Coats, scarlet, double-breasted, without lapels ; lined
with lemon-colour; button-holes worked with narrow white
20 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1751-
lace ; buttons, white metal, set on three and three ; a long
slash pocket in each skirt ; and a white worsted aiguillette on
the right shoulder.
Waistcoats and breeches, lemon-colour.
Hats, bound with silver lace, ornamented with white loop
and black cockade.
Red forage-cap turned up with lemon colour, and xiv. D.
on the flap. Boots of jacked leather, reaching to knee.
Cloaks, scarlet, with a lemon-coloured cape ; the buttons set
on three and three, upon white frogs or loops, with a red and
green stripe down the centre.
Horse-furniture of lemon-coloured cloth, the holster-caps
and housings having a border of white lace, with a red and
green stripe down the centre ; xiv. D. embroidered upon a red
ground, within a wreath of roses and thistles, on the housing ;
and upon the holster-caps G.R. with the crown over it, and
xiv. D. underneath.
Officers, distinguished by silver lace and embroidery ; and
a crimson silk sash worn across the left shoulder. Quarter-
masters to wear a crimson silk sash round their waists.
Sergeants to have narrow silver lace on the cuffs, pockets
and shoulder-straps ; silver aiguillettes ; and green, red, and
white worsted sashes tied round their waists.
Drummers and hautboys,1 clothed in lemon-coloured coats,
lined and faced with scarlet, and ornamented with white lace,
having a red and green stripe down the centre ; red waistcoats
and breeches.
Guidons, the first or King's guidon to be of crimson silk
with a silver and red fringe ; in the centre, the rose and thistle
conjoined, and crown over them, with the motto ' Dieu et mon
Droit ' underneath ; the white horse in a compartment in the
1 The 'Hautbois' ('oboe' Italian and Spanish) was a French invention, and
introduced into our army after the Restoration. It was a large flageolet or clarionet,
and gave a sound louder than all instruments except the trumpet. It was used in the
dragoons and infantry. In 1759 it was exchanged again for the trumpet. — {British
Army, by Sir S. Scott, Bart.) LiddelFs loth Hussars, p. 4.
FIRST (OR KING'S) GUIDON.
SECOND GUIDON.
'751
1754] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 21
first and fourth corners ; and xiv. D. in silver characters on a
lemon ground in a compartment in the second and third
corners. The second and third guidons to be of lemon-coloured
silk ; in the centre xiv. D. on a red ground within a wreath of
roses and thistles on the same stalk ; the white horse on a
red ground in the first and fourth compartments, and the rose
and thistle conjoined on a red ground in the second and third
compartments : the third colour to have a figure 3 on a circular
red ground under the wreath.
Captain James Bailie was appointed Major, igth June.
1752
Three troops went to Castlebar, 2 troops to Athlone (of
which i troop went later to Roscommon), and i troop to Granard.
On 27th November, Lieutenant-General Lord Tyrawley
went to the 3rd Dragoons, and Colonel Lewis Dejean was Colonel-
appointed Colonel in his place.
1753
In May the 6 troops of Colonel Dejean's regiment were
reviewed at Athlone, and marched to new quarters in June
as follows : —
3 troops to Gort ; i troop to Portumna, i to Head-
ford, and i to Loughrea.
The last troop reached its destination (Portumna) on 5th June ;
this was Captain Arabin's troop. Major (and Captain) J.
Bailie's troop was at Gort.
1754
Thomas Erie was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, 4th Sep- Lieutenant-
tember. He was appointed Cornet in 1707, the year of his Thomas Erie,
birth, and Lieutenant in 1722 at the age of 15 years. He
remained at the head of the i4th Dragoons till 1773.
The regiment was quartered at Phillipstown and Tullamore,
3 troops at each place, and was reviewed at Maryborough.
Subsequently the whole regiment moved to Dublin.
22 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1755
EXTRACT FROM DAILY PAY OF LAND FORCES, 1754-
DAILY PAY, ETC.
BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT.
IRISH ESTABLISHMENT.
Dragoons.
Dragoons.
Pay.
Subsistence.
Pay.
Subsistence.
£ s. d.
£ s- d.
£ s. d.
£ s- d.
Colonel, ....
i 15 o
i 6 6
in 4
i 3 8
Lieut. -Colonel and \
Captain, /
146
o 18 6
o 19 4
o 14 7
Major, .....
i o 6
o 15 6
o 17 4
o 13 i
Captain, ....
o 15 6
on 6
0 12 4
092
Lieutenant, ....
090
076
062
049
Cornet, ....
080
066
052
o 3 10
Quartermaster,
056
046
030
029
Chaplain, ....
068
056
068
050
Adjutant, ....
050
046
(?)
(?)
Surgeon, ....
060
046
040
030
Kettledrummer, .
023
019
o i 6
O I O
Sergeant, ....
029
023
026
017
Corporal, ....
023
019
o i 8
0 I JT9TT
Hautbois, ....
020
o i 6
o i 6
O I O
Private Man,
017
o i 5
014
0 0 II
Agent, each Troop, . , .
O I 2
o 3 6|
Widows, ....
002
ALLOWANCE PER DIEM OVER THE PAY.
Dragoons
s. d.
Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, Major and Captain, recruiting each, . 2 4
(When full, by Warrant of i4th August 1747).
Colonel, for clothing lost by deserters, . . . .150
Each troop of 6 troops, . . . . . .26
1755
The regiment remained in Dublin till May. Colonel Dejean
was commanding the cavalry in Ireland in the early part of the
year ; and the Monthly State signed by him in January shows
that only two officers of the i4th Dragoons were absent on
leave, viz. Lieutenant E. Vernon and Chaplain P. Vatass, and
there were 'fit for duty1 130 rank and file, with 143 troop-
1758] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 23
horses. There were 14 men and 14 horses wanting to complete.
Quartermaster Philip Mercier was appointed Adjutant.
In May and June the regiment left Dublin : 2 troops pro-
ceeded to Ballyshannon, i to Navan, which went later to
Thurles Camp, and 3 troops to Belturbet. Of these latter
i troop went subsequently to Thurles Camp and i to Bally-
shannon. Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's troop was at Belturbet,
one man of which, Private Ralph West, was ' whipt out.'
Two new standards were issued to the regiment.
1756
Some new swords were issued to the regiment.
Captain Marcus Norman became Major, 2nd January.
The regiment moved to Loughrea, and sent a troop to a
camp formed near Kilkenny in August.
Colonel Dejean was promoted Major-General.
1757
The regiment was reviewed at Loughrea and proceeded
afterwards to Clonmel. Captain Arabin's troop was at Tallow,
the Colonel's troop at Portumna, Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's
troop at Loughrea.
On 5th April Colonel John Campbell, afterwards Marquis Colonel
of Lome, from the 54th Regiment, succeeded Major-General
Dejean as Colonel of the regiment. The latter went to the
3rd Irish Horse, now 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers).
Jeremiah Hurley became Adjutant.
1758
The 6 troops, marching by squadrons, arrived at Athlone
from Clonmel by 6th June, detaching i troop to Granard and
i to Roscommon.
Captain Robert Brown's troop was at Athlone, also Major
Norman's, Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's, and Captain Ford's.
Four quartermasters of the regiment were sent on command
during the summer to Granard, Clonmel, Ross, and Roscommon.
24 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1759-
1759
Colonel Campbell was promoted Major-General.
The whole regiment was concentrated at Athlone, and
marched in June by squadrons to Clofimel. It was encamped
near Fethard, and reviewed there with 3 other regiments of
cavalry, subsequently proceeding to quarters in Clonmel,
Doneraile, and Ross.
Captain J. Ford became Major, i7th September. At this
period it appears from the ' Monthly States of Cavalry in
Ireland' that there were 10 regiments of cavalry there, 4
horse and 6 dragoons, the totals being as follows : —
/Men, 504. fMen, 1209.
iotal Horsei TJ ~ 1 otal Dragoons^ TT 0^
[Horses, 580. [Horses, 1287.
In 'Campbell's Dragoons' in the Monthly States it is
reported (November and December 1759) 'Chaplain Vatass
ill of a paralytic disorder and unable to attend his duty.'
Signed Thomas Erie, Lieutenant-Colonel.
An order dated 5th May was issued giving route for Major-
General Campbell's Dragoons to march from Doneraile and
Ross to Clonmel, there to be reviewed and to return to same
quarters after the review.
Another order was issued on 5th June 1759 for Campbell's
Dragoons to march from Athlone (6 troops) to Clonmel, there
to encamp. The troops marched by squadrons at a time, the
ist squadron on I5th June, making five days' march and
one halt, viz.—
Birr, June I5th; Roscrea, June i7th ; Thurles, June i8th ;
Cashel, June I9th ; Clonmel, June 2Oth.
The 2nd and 3rd squadrons followed on i6th and i8th
June.
1760
George in., GEORGE III.
1760.
In June the 2 troops at Doneraile and i at Ross joined
headquarters at Clonmel, where the review took place, and
the 3 detached troops then returned to former stations. In
1762] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 25
December, headquarters and 2 troops were moved to Kilkenny
for the winter, 2 troops moving to Ross, I troop to Carrick-on-
Suir, and i troop (the one hitherto at Ross) moving to Cullen.
It appears by the Monthly States and Muster Rolls of
Cavalry in Ireland, that in January, n men were drafted
from Campbell's Dragoons (i4th) to the Light Cavalry and the
Inniskilling Dragoons in Germany, and i sergeant was sent
'on command' with them. In February, or earlier, 12 men
were drafted towards the augmentation of the 3rd and 4th
Regiments of Horse. In April, Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's
troop was at Clonmel ; Major J. Ford's and Captain J.
Mayne's at Doneraile ; Captain A. Molesworth's and Captain
R. Howard's at Clonmel, and Captain Pepper's at Ross. In
May, 'Adjutant Jeremiah Hurley preferred in the Carabiniers,'
and in August, Adjutant Hurley 'on command in Germany.'
In October, Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's and Captain A. Moles-
worth's troops were at Kilkenny, Captain T. Pepper's troop
at Cullen, and Captain Pearce's at Ross.
In the same month there were 'present and fit for duty'
i Lieutenant- Colonel, i Captain, 2 Cornets, i Adjutant, 4
Quartermasters, 6 Sergeants, 4 Trumpeters, 130 rank and file,
and 177 horses. There were 17 officers 'on licence' (leave),
and i employed recruiting.
1761
Major-General Campbell became Lieutenant-General in
January, and in April he became Marquis of Lome on the
decease of his uncle, Archibald, third Duke of Argyll. In June
the whole regiment came to Kilkenny for review, and then
moved to Tullamore 3 troops, and Phillipstown 3 troops.
1762
The regiment was (probably) quartered in Dublin during the
early part of this year, and moved later to Sligo. Lieutenant-
General the Marquis of Lome was appointed Commander-in-
Chief in Scotland, and Lieutenant-Colonel Erie was promoted
Colonel by brevet.
26 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1763-
1763
Most of the regiment was at Sligo. Two men of Captain
Butler's troop were imprisoned in Sligo Jail. On 26th May,
Captain A. Molesworth became Major vice J. Ford. In June
(probably) the headquarters and 3 troops moved to Castlebar,
and i troop each to Roscommon, Athlone, and Headford.
1764
In July 3 troops were at Gort, and 3 troops at Loughrea, Head-
ford, and Portumna. The 3 troops at Gort were the Marquis
of Lome's, Lieutenant-Colonel Erie's, and Captain Pepper's.
1765
The regiment was stationed at Tallow, Cappoquin, and
Doneraile in July. Major Molesworth's and Captain Pepper's
troops were at Cappoquin, Captain Butler's at Tallow, the
Marquis of Lome's at Doneraile, and Captain Howard's at
Tallow.
Lieutenant-General the Marquis of Lome went to the ist
Royal Regiment of Foot, and was succeeded as Colonel of the
Colonel— 1 4th Dragoons on nth September by Colonel Charles Fitzroy
as. itzroy. (afterwar(}s Lord Southampton), who was only twenty-seven
years of age at this date.
1766
The regiment was at Tullamore and Phillipstown. Captain
Howard's and Captain Pepper's troops were at Tullamore, and
Captain Grice Blakeney's troop was at Phillipstown. Chaplain
Vatass was absent on leave, and Deputy Gethin Crowe per-
formed his duties in his absence. Cornet Arthur Ormsby
became Adjutant.
1767
This year the regiment, now called Fitzroy's Dragoons,
was stationed in Dublin. The commanding officer, Lieutenant-
Colonel Thomas Erie, was now sixty years of age.
1768] THE 14™ (KING'S) HUSSARS 27
There were six troops at this time, and the officers com-
prised —
i Colonel.
i Lieutenant-Colonel.
i Major.
3 Captains.
i Captain-Lieutenant.
5 Lieutenants.
6 Cornets, including the Adjutant.
The total strength was 155 officers and men, 119 troop-
horses.
There were 6 men and 25 horses wanting to complete the
establishment.
There was an officiating chaplain, a surgeon, and the
Adjutant (Cornet A. Ormsby) present at the inspection in
Dublin, which was made by General O'Brien D. Dilkes on
24th April. The regiment received a new supply of firelocks, New firelocks,
bayonets, swords, and six trumpets this year. iSued?tS' etc''
In November it moved to Athlone.
The cost of horses for dragoon regiments was raised from Price of troop-
.1 . horses, 1767.
20 to 22 guineas this year.
1768
On 23rd May, at Athlone, Lieutenant-General R. Armiger
inspected the regiment.
A new set of buff and small leather accoutrements was
issued this year, as well as housings and caps.
The uniform, by royal warrant of George HI., dated iQth Description of
December 1768, still remained scarlet (as prescribed in 1751), U1
with lemon-coloured facings, without lapels, with silver lace,
lemon-coloured cloth waistcoats and breeches, silver lace, the
button-holes of the waistcoat laced with silver to the bottom ; a
silver epaulette, buttons not numbered, light boots, silver spurs,
1 The officer's coat was made with a slash sleeve and pocket, turned up with
lemon-coloured cloth and six button-holes, laced with silver, the cuffs round and cut
obliquely.
28 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1769-
lemon-coloured serge lining to coat and vest Trumpeters rode
grey horses, men wore black spatter-dashes, silver-laced hat,
button and loop ; hats were worn well cocked. The General
in his review report remarked that the horses were in good
condition, but ' not very nimble,' and ' 39 with long tails.'
The 132 pairs pistols in possession of the regiment were
reported as ' bad.'
1769
Major-General the Earl of Drogheda reviewed the regi-
ment at Athlone on 2nd June. Nearly the whole of the men
were Irish, out of 136 only two being English. Three of the
men had thirty-five years' service, and 7 had twenty-five years'
service ; 37 men had from eight to ten years, and 51 from five
to one year.
The Rev. Elias Handcock officiated as chaplain at Athlone
in the absence of Mr. Peter Vatass, who appears by the returns
to have been on commanding officer's leave since his appoint-
ment to the regiment on 24th December 1745 !
Captain- Lieutenant John Mayne died on 25th ApriL
The inspection report says : ' The horses are nimble and
in good condition, 61 with long tails out of 112 troopers on
parade,
1 One troop is at Nenagh.
1 This is a good regiment, and fit for service.
(Signed) ' DROGHEDA, Major-General*
In June the regiment moved to Clonmel.
1770
In February the regiment moved to Birr. It was reviewed
there by Major-General Ham Lambert on 3oth May. There
were 80 horses with long tails.
Detachments at Thurles and ClonmeL The Rev. A.
Downey was officiating chaplain. The review report says :
' A very good regiment, and very fit for service.
(Signed) ' HAM LAMBERT, Major-General'
1773] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 29
On 30th April, Colonel Thomas Erie was promoted Major-
General at the age of sixty-three years, but still remained the
Lieutenant-Colonel of the i4th Dragoons.
1771
Captain Thomas Pepper became Major on I4th March
vice J. Maine.
The regiment was reviewed at Birr on 3rd June by Major-
General Peirson.
Detachments were at Nenagh and Donaghmore. Horses
reported as being ' nimble ' and ' in exceeding fine order and
condition.' The Rev. John Croasdale was deputy-chaplain.
After the review, headquarters moved to Tullamore till
December, and then went to Dublin. There were 95 long-
tailed ' horses in the regiment. Six new trumpets were issued
this year.
1772
In April, 4 troops were at Dublin, i at Lurgan, and i at
Belfast.
The regiment was reviewed at Dublin by Lieutenant-
General M. O'Brien Dilkes on the ist June, and shortly
afterwards proceeded to Athlone and outquarters. The Rev.
Mr. Hodgkinson was officiating as chaplain for Mr. Vatass.
On 3Oth October, Colonel Fitzroy, having been promoted
to Major-General, was appointed Colonel of the 3rd Dragoons,
and Lieutenant-General Daniel Webb from the 8th Footcoionei—
became Colonel of the i4th Dragoons.
1773
The regiment remained at Athlone, Navan, and Ros-
common. Lieutenant-General Webb died, and was succeeded
as Colonel of the i4th Dragoons, on the nth November, bycoionei—
Colonel George Warde, from the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the G
4th Dragoons.
30 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1773-
Lieutenant- Lieutenant-Colonel J. Burgoyne, from the 58th Regiment,
became Lieutenant-Colonel, I5th July, vice Major-General
Thomas Erie.1 Lieutenant-Colonel Burgoyne had held the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel since iQth December 1762.
Review report The regiment was reviewed at Athlone on 5th June by
Biayney, Licutenant-Gcneral Lord Blayney.
5th June' 1 7 73.
Observations on His Majesty's \^th Regiment of Dragoons.
' Officers made a good appearance : saluted well, well
mounted, uniform agreeable to the King's regulations.
Non-commissioned officers steady under arms, but in-
differently mounted.
Men clean under arms, hats well cocked, but not in size
equal to the King's order.
Arms in very good order.
Complaints, none.
Recruits, good, well certified for; 18 enlisted since last
review.
Stock purse account settled to 24th June 1772.
Orderly-books well kept.
Manual exercise performed by word of command, and
pretty well.
Trumpeters pretty well mounted and well taught.
Horses in pretty good order. Long-tailed horses, 1 20 out of
a total of 138 ; 13 purchased since last review.
Clothing well fitted and agreeable to the King's order.
Accounts and horse furniture agreeable to the King's order.
Movements and Manoeuvres executed at Inspection.
1 Received the General, marched by in squadrons, marched
by troops and passed the General, dismount, marched by the
General by troops, manual exercise, firings nine rounds, usual
1 Major-General T. Erie, who was now sixty-six years of age, had held the Lieu-
tenant-Colonelcy of the I4th Dragoons since 1754 — nearly nineteen years.
1775] THE HTM (KING'S) HUSSARS 31
evolutions. Squadrons took ground to the left, wheeled the
line to the right, etc. etc.
Part of the regiment is at Navan and Roscommon.
I reviewed this regiment at Athlone on 5th June 1773;
found them in pretty good order, the officers well mounted,
and the quartermasters but very indifferent. The horses were
very active, but the men in general ride too long. None of
the hats of the cavalry were agreeable to the King's order in
size. (Signed) BLAYNEY, Lieutenant-General'
The regiment moved in June to Birr. The chaplain, Peter
Vatass, was still absent on leave, and the Rev. Dean Hand-
cock was the deputy-chaplain.
1774
Reviewed at Birr by Major-General the Earl of Drogheda.
Detachments at Gort and Portumna.
George Borthwick appointed Surgeon vice Irving, soth
October.
The regiment moved on the 3ist December, 2 troops to
Thurles, 2 troops to Tipperary, and 2 troops to Charleville.
1775
This year hostilities between Great Britain and her North
American colonies commenced, and it was found that that
country was not well adapted for the operations of heavy
cavalry ; hence the necessity arose for a larger number of
light cavalry regiments. During the first part of the year
the 1 4th Dragoons remained at Tipperary, 3 troops and head-
quarters, 2 troops at Thurles, i troop at Charleville.
In June the regiment was in Queen's County, 3 troops at
Maryborough, and 3 at Mountmellick. Inspected by General
Cunninghame at Tipperary on 5th June. The buttons on the
uniform were numbered regimentally.
32 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1776-
1776
i4th Light The 1 4th Dragoons were now constituted a corps of Light
Dragoons in Ireland : the standard height for men and horses
was reduced. Cocked hats were replaced by helmets ; arms
and appointments of a lighter pattern were adopted, and the
regiment was designated the ' i4th Light Dragoons.'
Captain Grice Blakeney was promoted Major, i6th March,
vice Thomas Pepper.
The regiment remained at Maryborough and Mountmellick
for the early part of the year, and on ist July there were
2 troops and headquarters at Tullamore, and 2 troops at
Phillipstown.
Two new standards, and new saddles and bridles were
issued this year.
1777
Colonel Warde was promoted Major-General, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Burgoyne received the brevet rank of Colonel
on the 2 Qth of August.
Regiment remained at Tullamore and Phillipstown.
Reviewed at Tullamore on the i2th of June by Lieutenant-
General James Johnston, who reported that the movements,
evolutions, firings, and manoeuvres, were well performed.
The Lieutenant-Colonel, J. Burgoyne, was thirty-seven
years of age ; the Major, Grice Blakeney, was thirty-seven ;
the Adjutant, J. Wilson, was thirty-six. The Reverend
Quintin Finlay officiated as Chaplain in the continued absence
of Mr. Vatass, on leave.
New pistols were issued this year, also some new swords,
carbines, and bayonets.
1778
The regiment remained at Tullamore till August.
Major-General Warde went to the first Irish Horse (now
Colonel— 4th Dragoon Guards), and Major-General Robert Sloper was
' oper' appointed Colonel of the i4th Light Dragoons on the 2nd
April.
1782] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 33
The regiment was reviewed at a camp near Clonmel by
Major-General Joseph Gabbett on 28th September, having
moved there from Tullamore in August.
The strength of the regiment was 199 men, 137 troop-
horses. Everything had been recently issued new to the
Fourteenth on becoming ' Light Dragoons.' They moved to
Carlow for the winter in the month of November.
1779
Colonel J. Burgoyne became Colonel Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart.
Regiment went into camp near Carrigaline for August and
September.
Reviewed at Carrigaline Camp on 27th September by
Major-General Mocher.
The Fourteenth consisted of 6 troops of 34 non-commissioned
officers and men, 23 troop-horses, and 3 officers per troop.
The troop-horses averaged from 1 4 hands 3 inches to Height of
15 hands 3 inches in height. troop-horses.
In October they moved to Bandon.
1780
Five troops and headquarters remained at Bandon ; i troop
was at Innishannon.
1781
Major G. Blakeney became Lieutenant-Colonel vice Sir Lieutenant-
J. Burgoyne, Bart., appointed Colonel of the 23rd Light
Dragoons, and Andrew Corbet became Major, i9th November. Blakeney-
The regiment remained at Bandon and Innishannon for the
whole of this year.
1782
On 3Oth June the following change of quarters took place :
3 troops to Kilkenny, 3 troops to Carrick-on-Suir ; later
i troop went from Carrick-on-Suir to Ballyragget.
At this period the Muster- Rolls, one for each troop, were
most accurately kept, and were rendered quarterly on i5th
c
34 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1783
April, 1 5th July, i5th October, and i5th January, for the
quarter ending with previous month in each case. All officers
present signed the docket, and the commanding officer at each
station, and for each troop, signed this certificate : ' I certify
that the several men mustered, on furlo', or sick, are effectives.'
The names of all officers, sergeants, corporals, trumpeters,
hautboys, and privates, were entered on the Rolls. The
Muster- Rolls had to be sworn-to in presence of a magistrate,
and so stated on reverse, with signatures attached of the
Commissary of the Musters and the magistrate.
On 2Oth November, Major-General R. Sloper was pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant-General.
1783
William Richardson was appointed Major vice A. Corbet.
In the spring the regiment moved from Kilkenny, etc., and
was stationed at Clonmel, 3 troops, Clogheen 2 troops, and
Cappoquin i troop.
1784
Clothing blue, On 1 8th day of May, by an order from the Adjutant-
yaeciiowasemon" General's office, Dublin, the clothing of Light Dragoons
before. was changed from scarlet to dark blue, as follows : —
Regulations for the clothing of the Light Dragoons. — The
clothing of a private light dragoon is to consist of a jacket,
shell, under-waistcoat, and leather breeches. The jacket and
shell to be of blue cloth ; the collars and cuffs of the royal
regiments to be red, and those of the other regiments to be
of the colour of the facings of the regiment, looped upon the
breast, edged with white cord, and to be lined with white,
the nth and i3th regiments excepted, which are to be lined
with buff. The under waistcoat to be of flannel with sleeves,
and made so as to be buttoned within the waistband of the
breeches. The breeches to be of buckskin.
N.B. — The make of the dress and method of placing the
cord upon the breast of the jacket to be exactly conformable
to the pattern approved by His Majesty.
1784] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 35
Officers and Quartermasters. — The dress-uniform of the
officers and quartermasters of the Light Dragoons to be made
according to the king's regulations of the igth December 1768,
excepting that the coats are to be blue and faced with the
same colour as the private men, and that the royal regiments
are to be faced with scarlet.
Field uniform of the Officers and Quartermasters. — The
jacket and shell to be made up in the same manner as those
of the men, excepting that the shell is to have sleeves, and
that the looping is to be made of silver, the I3th regiment
excepted, which is to be of gold.
Sergeants. — The sergeants of the Light Dragoons to be
distinguished by gold or silver looping.
Corporals. — The corporals of the Light Dragoons to be
distinguished by a gold or silver cord round the collar and
cuffs.
Trumpeters. — The trumpeters to have a jacket and shell,
the colour and facing of the regiment, with lace instead of
looping in front and down the seams.
N.B. — A pattern suit may be seen at the Commander-in-
Chiefs office at the Royal Hospital, Dublin.
(Signed) F. PIGOT, Adjutant-General.
The foregoing orders were sent to the officers commanding
the 8th, 1 2th, i3th, i4th, i7th, and i8th Light Dragoons,
to the Earl of Drogheda, to the Major of Brigade for the
General Officers, and to the agents, Messrs. Montgomery
Wybrants and Cane.
The regiment was reviewed at Clonmel on the ist June
by Major-General Sir Henry Calder, who inspected the
regimental standing orders and reported: 'I am informed ' standing
each troop is furnished with a copy of them.' This is the inrtheSRegi-S €
first mention of any 'standing orders.' At this date there ment>
were six troops : one commanded by the Colonel, one by the
Lieutenant-Colonel, one by the Major, and three by Captains.
After the review the regiment moved to Loughrea.
36 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1785-
1785
Reviewed at Loughrea on 7th June by Major-General
Lord Luttrell, who reports : ' The system of discipline and
good order originally established by Colonel Sir John Burgoyne
is well preserved by Colonel Blakeney and a very active
adjutant. — (Signed) LUTTRELL.'
The adjutant was J. M'Gee, appointed I2th September 1780.
After the inspection the regiment moved to Athlone.
1786
The regiment remained at Athlone till June, then moved to
Kilkenny and out-stations. New sergeants' sashes were issued.
Captain Arthur Carter was appointed Major loth April (vice
W. Richardson), from 4th Regiment of Horse. Inspected by
Major-General Lord Luttrell on 4th June, who reports : ' They
have a code of regimental orders, and each officer is furnished
with a copy. This regiment has ever been kept in perfect
order and fit for service. — (Signed) LUTTRELL.'
Light Dragoons were ordered to have blue cloaks instead
of red ones.
1787
The regiment was stationed at Kilkenny.
Reviewed on 5th June by Major-General the Earl of
Carhampton. The men wore black spatter-dashes and helmets.
The standards in use were issued in 1773.
Lord Carhampton reports : ' This regiment shows a constant
and uniform attention of the officers to its appearance and
discipline.'
In June the regiment moved to Nenagh and out-quarters.
1788
The regiment moved to the Curragh of Kildare, where
Major-General Paterson reviewed it on 4th June. He reports :
' They have a code of regimental orders, and each officer is
supplied with a copy.'
i79i] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 37
The chaplain, Mr. Peter Vatass, who has been on leave
since his appointment to the regiment on 26th December 1745,
is still shown as 'absent on leave,' he being at this date 66
years of age.
The zealous adjutant, J. M'Gee, being now 50 years of age,
is reported as being 'sick at Carlow.'
New pouches and belts were issued.
In June the regiment moved to Carlow and out-stations.
On the 6th June, Lieutenant-General R. Sloper was awarded
the dignity of Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath.
1789
At Carlow. Inspected on 6th June by Major-General
Prescott, who states : ' A copy of the standing code is in pos-
session of each officer. The regiment is well disciplined, in
perfect good order, and fit for service.'
1790
At Carlow. Reviewed by Major-General C. W. Lyon on
26th June. The commanding officer certifies that each officer
has a copy of the regimental ' Standing Orders.'
New standard-belts, waist-belts, housings, and caps were
issued, also two new standards. One hundred and twenty-
six carbines, bayonets, and pairs of pistols were reported in
bad order, and new ones were issued. One hundred and
thirty-eight swords in possession all reported good.
Lieutenant-Colonel Grice Blakeney was promoted to the
rank of Colonel.
In July the regiment moved to Dublin.
1791
The regiment was reviewed in the Phoenix Park, Dublin,
on 28th May, by Major-General R. Whyte.
The 138 swords in possession of regiment (issued in 1776)
were reported bad, and new ones were supplied.
38 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1792-
The complement for the regiment was :—
Swords . . .
Firelocks and carbines
Bayonets ....
Pairs of pistols . .
Trumpets . '.'".'. 6
This was the time of the French Revolution, and the spirit
of republicanism had spread to the French West Indian
Islands, where the blacks rose against the planters, committing
acts of outrage and spoliation.
1792
The regiment was reviewed in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on
1 5th May, by Major-General Richard Whyte. The regimental
code was still in use, and each officer had a copy. The chaplain
was still on leave, being 70 years of age, and the Reverend
Mr. Devereux officiated for him.
Seventeen privates were drafted to Jamaica. In June the
regiment moved to Kilkenny, thence in July to Tallow, County
Waterford, till November, and thence to Cappoquin in
December.
1793
A British army under the Duke of York went to Flanders to
act against the French, and British aid was also given to the
planters in St. Domingo (Hayti). During this year the regi-
ment seems to have been frequently on the move, and quartered
in turn at Tallow, Cappoquin, Clogheen, and Kilkenny, sending
other troops on detachment elsewhere.
1794
In January the headquarters of the regiment were at
Clogheen. In March a move was made to Bandon and out-
stations, and in September to Clonmel.
Major Arthur Carter received the brevet rank of Lieutenant-
1794] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 39
Colonel on ist March, and Colonel Grice Blakeney became
Major- General on 3rd October.
Two troops were sent from Ireland to Flanders, and were
there attached to the 8th Light Dragoons on arrival. In the
muster-roll of these two troops from June to December 1794,
they are shown as being in Major-General Vyse's brigade of
the army in Flanders. They formed part of the van of the
forces under Lieutenant-General the Earl of Moira, which
proceeded on the march from Ostend to join the army under
His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
The two troops wintered in Holland, taking part in several
encounters with the enemy, and after an unusually severe
season and a hard campaign, in which several men and six
horses were lost, came to Germany early in the following year
(1795), and became incorporated with the 8th Regiment of
Light Dragoons.
These troops saw a good deal of service. It was on i5th TWO troops
September 1794 that Lieutenant-General Abercromby (under Flanders and
the orders of the Duke of York) marched with the reserve to SeD^e"^
try and regain the lost position of Boxtell in Brabant, near the York-
river Dommel and the town of Berlicon. He found the enemy
so strong that he was obliged to retire, and consequently the
Duke of York had to fall back with his army across the Meuse,1
taking up a position near the old lines of Velpen, three miles
in front of Grave. Next day, having crossed the Meuse, he
encamped at Wichen, seven miles distant. In the engagement
at Boxtell nearly 1500 men were lost, mostly German troops.
The squadron of the I4th Light Dragoons lost 2 men who were
reported 'missing.' The battle of Boxtell took place on the Battle of
1 4th September 1794: it was undoubtedly a victory of the ,4th September
French over the allied British and Dutch forces under the I794'
Duke of York.
On 6th December 1794 the Duke of York left the army
in Holland, and the command of the allied army was taken
over by General Walmoden, and of the British by Lieutenant-
1 Or ' Maas.'
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[i795
General Abercromby. In the month of December the troops
suffered intensely from the inclemency of the weather during
the time they were at Grave on the Meuse, near Nimeguen,
in Dutch Brabant. The ice was so strong that cavalry and
heavy cannon could cross the rivers. The winter clothing for
the men came from Arnheim on the river Rhine. In the
Action of Tuyi, action of Tuyl, fought on 3Oth December, the allies were
1794. e " victorious and drove the enemy across the Waal River. There
were no casualties among the cavalry, but the igth, 33rd, 42nd,
/8th, and 8oth Regiments, as well as the ' Loyal Emigrants,'
lost between them 2 officers and 24 men.
Battle of
Geldermalsen,
5th January
I79S-
Battle of
Bueren on
Lingen,
8th January
1795-
Affair near
Elst,
loth January
1795-
1795
On 5th January, at Geldermalsen, where the enemy was
defeated with a loss of 200 men, our losses were 4 officers,
64 men, and 1 1 horses, which included 7 men and 3 horses
of the 1 1 th Light Dragoons ; but it does not appear that any
losses were incurred by the i4th Light Dragoons or 8th Light
Dragoons on this occasion, as the cavalry was mostly in
reserve.
On the 8th January, at a place near Bueren, on the river
Lingen, a battle took place. The British and allies were
opposed to very superior forces of the enemy, but fought
with the greatest gallantry, and lost 3 officers and 18 men
killed, 8 officers, 113 men, and 3 horses wounded. No casualties
occurred among the cavalry. On this occasion Major- General
Lord Cathcart was in command. The 27th and 28th Regi-
ments suffered heavily, and we had to retire across the Lingen
to Elst.
Another engagement took place here on loth January,
when the British lost several officers and men. Lieutenant-
General Abercromby, who was marching on Echlade, suddenly
found himself threatened by the French both on his left flank
and in rear, the Hanoverians and Austrians being also hard
pressed by bodies of the enemy. In this state of affairs
1795] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 41
Lieutenant- General Abercromby retreated across the Lech,
and eventually the whole British army had to retire into
Westphalia and Germany, suffering great hardships and priva- Retreat into
tions on their march. They reached Deventeron i4th January, Germany!*
thence proceeding to Loonen and other places in Guelderland,
and by the month of March General Abercromby had estab-
lished the headquarters of the British troops at Osnaburg,
and later at Diephelt in Westphalia. Towards the end of
March the British marched to Bremen on Weser, and on the
1 4th April 1795 a large force embarked at Bremerleche, leaving
for a time Major- General D. Dundas and Lord Cathcart
with a detachment of artillery and the whole of the British
cavalry, whilst the remainder sailed for England on the 24th
April. In this campaign the superior forces of the enemy
completely overpowered the British and their allies.1
The two troops of the i4th Light Dragoons which took TWO troops of
part in these operations were by this time incorporated with the
8th Light Dragoons, now the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars,
and so we take leave of them to return to th« main body of Dragoons,
the regiment which we left in Ireland in County Tipperary. mPGerrnany.
For some years the spirit of republicanism had run riot in
the French West Indian Islands, and numerous acts of outrage
and spoliation had been committed by the blacks who had
hitherto been slaves, against the properties of their owners. In
1793 the planters of St. Domingo obtained British aid, whilst
the revolutionists afterwards received assistance from France.
At this period the 7 troops of the Fourteenth at Clonmel
were ordered out to St. Domingo. The establishment at this
time was 450 rank and file, with 486 troop-horses.
The 7 troops gave up their horses to the 24th Light
Dragoons at Clonmel, and in June embarked without horses
at Waterford under the superintendence of Major-General
John William Egerton, whence they sailed to Bristol, taking
with them their appointments and everything ready for service.
1 The above is taken from Jones's Historical Journal of the British Campaign
on the Continent with the retreat through Holland, 1794-95 (published 1797).
42 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1796
They subsequently proceeded to Hayti or St. Domingo, one
of the Leeward Islands in the Atlantic, for service there under
Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel A. Carter. At Bristol the regiment
met the i3th Light Dragoons destined for the same service
as themselves, also the , 3Oth Light Dragoons under Colonel
Sir John Garden, as well as the 32nd Light Dragoons under
Colonel Blake. The two latter regiments were mounted, and
had come from Ireland to do duty in England. Those regi-
ments destined for active service, after landing at Bristol were
stationed in billets in the adjacent towns, till the vessels which
were to convey them to the West Indies were ready to receive
them.
On arrival at St. Domingo the regiment was supplied
with horses from America, and was soon engaged in active
operations against the bands of armed negroes and mulattoes
who had enrolled themselves under the banners of the French
Republic.
During the years 1795, 1796, and 1797, numerous actions
occurred, but against a hundred thousand trained blacks who
had been instructed in European discipline, the few British
troops on the island were unable to do more than exhibit
many examples of discipline and valour.1
1796
There was a small party of the regiment stationed at Marl-
borough in England, and a depot at Maidstone, and the estab-
lishments of men and horses were largely augmented, but the
effectives were very far below these numbers, owing to the
casualties on service and want of recruits.
The country of Hayti or St. Domingo was close and hilly,
and therefore quite unsuited to cavalry operations ; the climate,
moreover, was unhealthy in the extreme, and after a time
yellow fever broke out, and made fearful ravages amongst the
British forces. There were seven cavalry regiments serving in
1 Cannon's Record^ pp. 16-17.
1796] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 43
the expedition, viz. the I3th, I4th, I7th, i8th, 2ist, 26th, and
29th Light Dragoons, and these suffered most terribly from the
fatal scourge. The deaths were so numerous and rapid that
regiments could not bury their own dead, and it is recorded
that the 1 3th Light Dragoons had to obtain help in this duty
from the men of the 56th Regiment serving near them. A
vivid picture of the state of affairs is given in the early pages
of Gleig's Hussar, published in I837.1
There is an old parchment muster-roll of the i4th Light
Dragoons now preserved in the Public Record Office, Chancery
Lane, London, dated May to December 1795, in which Major
Arthur Carter and four privates are returned as ' Prisoners of
War,' a few men are returned as 'at Halstead,' and others
as ' in England.' This muster-roll was sworn to by Major
(Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Sir J. Dunbar, Bart., on the 26th
April 1798, at Marylebone, before a justice of the peace.
In the old ' Monthly Returns,' also preserved in the Public
Record Office, the i4th Light Dragoons on ist July 1795 are
accounted for as follows : —
' Seven Troops at Maryborough.
' Two Troops on foreign service. (108 Horses).'
and the nine Troops are thus designated :—
The Colonel's (Lieutenant-General R. Sloper's).
The Lieutenant-Colonel's (Major-General Grice Blak-
eney's).
The Major's (Brevet Lieutenant - Colonel Arthur
Carter's on foreign service).
Captain the Honourable James Butler's (on leave).
Captain N. Hutchinson's.
Captain Hamilton Gorge's.
Captain Henry Browne's.
Captain G. H. Montgomery's.
- vacant (afterwards Captain J. Kearnay's).
Probably this return had reference to the period just before
1 The Hussar, by the author of The Subaltern. London : Henry Colburn,
1837-
44 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1797
the seven troops from Ireland embarked in the south of
England for the West Indies, and when they were on their
way to the coast. It is probable Lieutenant- Colonel Carter
with some other officers and part of a troop proceeded early
in the year 1795 to St. Domingo, and was followed by the
remainder of the regiment in July or later. Colonel Blakeney
having been promoted Major-General before the regiment em-
barked, was practically succeeded in command by Lieutenant-
Colonel Carter, the senior Major, and Captain Sir J. Dunbar,
Bart., had been promoted Major on augmentation, on ist
September 1795.
On the 3rd May, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Sloper
became General.
1797
Affair of Cannon relates that in an enterprise against the post of ' Le
s£ Domirjo,5' Mirebalais»' a town to tne nortn of Port-au-Prince on the west
2nd June 1797. coast of St. Domingo, a detachment of the i4th, i8th, and 2ist
Light Dragoons, commanded by Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel
Arthur Carter of the i4th Light Dragoons, distinguished
itself, and was commended in the public despatches.
The bulletins of 1 797-98 contain the following relative to
the affair at Mirebalais : —
Despatch of Brigadier-General Churchill to Lieutenant-
General George Simcox, commanding His Majesty's troops in
the Isle of St. Domingo, dated Mirebalais, June 2nd, 1797.
' We were enabled to drive the enemy from a very advan-
tageous position they had taken, which, from their superiority
of numbers (about 1200 men), with three pieces of cannon,
must in all probability have cost us a number of valuable
lives to have carried ; but this additional strength l gave us
an easy victory, for no sooner did they perceive a detachment
of infantry and cavalry which I sent to guard the heights and
1 This refers to the junction of a column under Colonel Dessources at Port Michcll
on the previous day.
CARIBBEAN SEA
Scale of English Mies.
50 O 50 100
HAYTI & ST DOMINGO
1795-1797.
GULF OF M \E X X C O
Scale of English Miles,
o sp° igp
London,: Langimtn&, Green. £ Co.
1797] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 45
turn their right flank, than they immediately fled in the utmost
confusion, and with such precipitation, that though Lieutenant-
Colonel Carter with the detachments of the I4th, i8th, and
2ist Dragoons pursued them with that alacrity and spirit
which has ever distinguished him, he could only come up with
a very few. He succeeded, however, in driving a great many
into the river Artibonite, most of whom perished, and he had
the good fortune to take two of the guns with their ammuni-
tion, mules, etc. etc. The third gun was most probably lost
in the river, the carriage being left behind. We found the
fort in the Bourg of Mirebalais as perfect as it had ever been
and in no manner destroyed. I enclose a return of the artillery
and ammunition found in the fort of Mirebalais, and I am happy
to inform your Excellency that the repossession of this im-
portant post and district was effected without loss, one
sergeant and one private of the dragoons being all our
wounded.
' Return of Ordnance and Ordnance stores taken in the fort
of Mirebalais on the 2nd June 1797.
' 2 French 8-pounders badly spiked (since unspiked and
rendered serviceable).
2 6-pounders, serviceable.
2 2-pounders, serviceable.
A large proportion of shot for the above ordnance of
every description.
The ammunition not ascertained, but stated to be
damaged.
(Signed) ' GEO. CHURCHILL, Brigadier-General'
The pestilential climate of the West Indies was highly in-
jurious to the health of Europeans, and the i4th Light Dragoons,
like other regiments serving there, were soon reduced to a
skeleton. When the order came to return home, those who
survived were permitted to volunteer into other corps remain-
ing out longer, and those who remained in the regiment,
46 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1797
Regiment twenty-five in number, were embarked for England, where
arrives in Eng- . . . . ^ . . °,
land, Oct. 1 797. they arrived in October, and were stationed at Chelmsford.
On the ist June, General Sir Robert Sloper, K.B., was
removed to the Colonelcy of the 4th Dragoons, and Major-
Coionei— John General John William Egerton (afterwards Earl of Bridge-
Wm. Egerton. x J . /-. \ i f . ,
water) was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 1401 Light
Dragoons, from the first Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 7th Light
Dragoons. Major-General Egerton was employed on the staff
at Chelmsford when the remnant of the i4th Light Dragoons
arrived there from Hayti or St. Domingo, and receiving eight
old and worn-out horses with the recruits from the depot at
Maidstone, he had the satisfaction soon after of mounting
the regiment afresh, and of seeing it within a few years with
upwards of 900 horses in its ranks. There do not appear to be
any authentic returns of the actual numbers of the i4th Light
Dragoons who embarked for the West Indies, or of those
who subsequently returned to England ; but in the case of
the 1 3th Light Dragoons there is a very accurate casualty
return preserved, and this may be taken as a fair sample of
what the casualties of the I4th Light Dragoons probably
were in the same campaign, for there is no reason to suppose
they fared better.
' Casualty Return ' of 1 3th Light Dragoons :—
Men.
Sailed for the West Indies, . . 452
Died, ..... 287
Drafted to 2Oth and 2ist Light Dragoons, 1 13
Returned to England, . . . 52
452
In the ' Digest of Services' of the i4th Hussars,1 which are
kept in the orderly-room at regimental headquarters, the only
allusion to this West Indian expedition is as follows : — ' In
1 The Regimental Records.
1797] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 47
June 1795 the regiment was dismounted at Clonmel barracks,
and marched to Carrick-on-Suir, from whence it embarked to
St. Domingo under the command of Colonel Carter. 1797,
the regiment, on arrival in England, went to Chelmsford.'
As the above-quoted records are so very meagre, it may
be interesting to relate the following facts taken from
Cannon's Historical Record of the \$th Light Dragoons (pp.
28-30) with reference to the same expedition, in which that
regiment also took part :—
'Two troops of the i$th had embarked about July or
August 1795 for Jamaica; then the rest of the regiment gave
up their horses at Mallow, in Ireland, and sailed from Cork
to Bristol. Whilst waiting for orders at Bristol, the i3th
Light Dragoons met the I4th Light Dragoons destined for the
same service. The Thirteenth subsequently embarked at
Southampton in transports ; all the ships then laden with
troops proceeded from Southampton to Cove Harbour, Cork,
and in February 1796 seven troops of the Thirteenth sailed for
Barbadoes, where they arrived early in April. The worst
revolt had taken place in the island of St. Domingo, which
drove a large body of the planters to obtain aid from the
English people and to transfer their allegiance from France
to the British Crown. In consequence of this, additional
forces were ordered to the West Indies. From Barbadoes
the 1 3th Light Dragoons were moved to St. Domingo; but
here the climate was so pestilential, the regiment (which had
been supplied with some horses from America) was very soon
reduced to a mere skeleton, and lost in six months 20 officers,
7 troop quartermasters, and 233 non-commissioned officers
and men, so that the few remaining were removed to Jamaica
in December 1796. Here the remnant of the regiment
remained until July 1798, and, after transferring some men to
the 2Oth and 2ist Light Dragoons, all that remained of
the 1 3th Light Dragoons, 52 souls, embarked for England,
and landed at Gravesend in October 1798.'
48
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1798
Mr. Peter Vatass, who had been chaplain of the regiment
since 24th December 1745, and was now seventy-five years
of age, was removed, and no successor seems to have been
appointed. Apparently Mr. Vatass had been on leave the
whole of his service ! The salary of a regimental chaplain
in those days was about £ 1 20 per annum.
Major-General Egerton, the new Colonel of the Fourteenth,
was already well known to them, as he was the Staff Officer
at Clonmel in 1 795 when they were ordered to give up their
horses after being placed under orders for active service in
the West Indies; and when in 1797 they arrived at Chelms-
ford on return from St. Domingo, he was the Major-General
in command there. He always took an intense interest in
the regiment, and was extremely proud of the high reputation
it subsequently gained in the Peninsula, and he remained at
its head till his death in 1823. When he was first appointed
to the full Colonelcy he took a very active part in the mea-
sures adopted for remounting the regiment and recruiting its
diminished ranks after service in the West Indies.
Two ' assistant-surgeons ' were for the first time appointed
this year, viz. Henry Killaly, ist February 1797; Samuel
Newman, 25th April 1797.
1798
The regiment having been recruited and remounted soon
mustered 600 sabres : it was divided into 8 troops, and was
stationed at Chelmsford. On 26th July 1798 His Majesty
York's Own) King George in. was graciously pleased to approve of the
regiment being styled the i4th (or Duchess of York's Own)
Regiment of Light Dragoons, in honour of Her Royal Highness
the Princess Frederica Charlotte Ulrica Catherina, Princess
Royal of Prussia, who had married H.R.H. the Duke of York
in 1791. This honour was conferred for services performed
by the i4th Light Dragoons in receiving and escorting
H.R.H. the Duchess of York on her arrival in England in the
same year. The royal authority was given for the regiment to
Light
Dragoons.
/ 'f /<////>. I.' •//•,,/,,•,,;/ '//,//•/,'//, ////•/,*/ ' ,
y jferto.
1799] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 49
assume the Prussian Eagle as a badge, and the colour of the Prussian Eagle
facings was changed from lemon-yellow to orange, the colour ba
of the livery of the Royal House of Brandenburg.1 The Four-
teenth thus lost for a time the original pale yellow colour, but changed from
i • ( • i • n x- • i i r i » i i lemon-yellow
this was revived m 1861 in the colour of the busby-bags to orange,
when the regiment became Hussars. In the autumn the
regiment moved to Braintree and Halstead, where, on 9th
October, Major- General Egerton made an inspection. At
this review neither the Lieutenant-Colonel (Major-General
Grice Blakeney) nor the senior Major (Colonel Arthur Carter)
were present, but the junior Major (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
George Dunbar, Bart.) was in command of the regiment. On
the ist January both the Majors were promoted by brevet,
Lieutenant-Colonel Carter becoming Colonel, and Major Sir
G. Dunbar, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel.
1799
Being now stationed at Canterbury, the regiment was
inspected there on the 25th of September by Major-General
Garth. Its establishment was 720, but the effectives on that
date were only 450 men and 390 troop-horses.
Major and Brevet-Colonel Arthur Carter, who had practic-
ally commanded the regiment for several years, went on 5th
December on appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel to the i8th
Light Dragoons, and Lieutenant-Colonel John Michel from
the unattached list, late 3Oth Light Dragoons, became second
Lieutenant-Colonel of the I4th Light Dragoons on augmenta-
tion. Major-General G. Blakeney was still continued as the
Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment though a general officer,
and Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Sir George Dunbar,
Bart.,2 died on the i5th October.
In the army list for this year a Veterinary Surgeon appears
1 Cannon's Historical Record of the \^th Light Dragoons, p. 18. An entry else-
where gives the date of the royal authority which granted the Prussian Eagle as
7th September 1799. Orange, the colour of the ribbon worn with the Order of the
' Black Eagle,' is still considered the royal colour of Prussia.
2 Dunbar of Mochrum, Wigtonshire.
D
50 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1800-
for the first time in the list of commissioned officers, his name
being Samuel Newman, appointed 9th January.
The first Paymaster, Mr. James Flanegan, was also appointed
this year.
There was an order issued on 22nd April authorising
queues ten inches in length to be worn by cavalry and infantry,
excepting the light companies.
Captain the Hon. James Butler became Major in the
regiment.
I80O
There were further augmentations in the establishment
this year ; and there were 3 Lieutenant-Colonels — Grice
Blakeney, John Michel, and Samuel Hawker, the latter having
been appointed on i2th June.
Establishment. The establishment was raised to 10 troops of 90 rank and
file each. Four new guidons were received.
At Canterbury on ist November the regiment was inspected
by Major-General Wilford. A portion of the regiment had lately
been in Swinly Camp under Lieutenant-Colonel J. Michel.
NO 'Standing General Wilford mentions that 'no established orders
1 e existed in the corps for its direction and guidance.'
The established code of regimental orders which had existed
previously in the regiment, and which was so highly spoken of
by the Inspecting General officers from 1784 to 1790, appears to
have been allowed to drop out about this period, or perhaps
somewhat earlier.
' The system of discipline and good order ' established and
maintained by the carrying out of these orders is referred to by
Major-General Lord Luttrell in his inspection reports of 1785
and 1786, and he gives the credit of it to Colonel Sir John
Burgoyne, Bart., who commanded the regiment from 1774
to 1 78 1.1 His successor in the command, Lieutenant-Colonel
Grice Blakeney, who remained at the head of the regiment till
he became Lieutenant-General in 1802, appears in the earlier
1 See p. 36.
i8o2] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 51
years of his command to have kept up this good regimental
system, and adhered to the ' Code of Regimental Orders/ but
the latter was allowed to disappear as time went on.1 There is
no record of the regiment ever having any ' regimental standing
orders' again until May 1891, when Colonel H. B. Hamilton
at Hounslow introduced the present existing ones, which were
then thought to be the first the Fourteenth had ever possessed,
as no traces whatever of any previous ones existed, and none
apparently had been heard of by any one living at the time.2
The reference proving the former existence of this old ' regi-
mental code of orders ' is very interesting, and was discovered
by the author of these pages in an old ' Review- Book' of the
eighteenth century preserved in the Public Record Office
in Chancery Lane, London, where it was deposited by the
War Office.
1801
The regiment remained at Canterbury till March. It was
at Newbury in April and May. From June it was at Romford
and Hornchurch.
On 1 2th June, Captain Henry Brown became Major, and on
1 4th August, James Gambier was appointed to the same rank
in the regiment. Mr. Robert Thomson became Veterinary
Surgeon this year, and remained in that position in the
regiment until loth November 1814.
1802
In consequence of the Peace of Amiens on 27th March Establishment.
1802, the establishment of the regiment was reduced by two
troops.
Captain Neil Talbot became Major on 25th June vice
J. Gambier, and Lieutenant-Colonel S. Hawker was placed
on half-pay owing to the reduction of a Lieutenant-Colonelcy
in the establishment of the regiment.
1 The first mention of 'Standing Orders' is in 1784, when Lieutenant-Colonel
Blakeney commanded the regiment (see p. 35). 2 See p. 381.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1803-
A squadron was stationed under Captain Talbot at Chelms-
ford during the early part of this year, consisting of 125 troop-
horses, and was inspected there on 3ist March by Major-
Lieutenant- General Milner. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Michel became Brevet-
Michel. " Colonel on 29th April, and then succeeded to the command
of the Fourteenth, as Major-General Grice Blakeney was pro-
moted Lieu tenant- General on the same date, and removed
from the regiment after holding the Lieutenant-Colonelcy
since iQth November 1781 — upwards of 21 years, but it is
probable that he had not exercised the active duties of com-
mand since his promotion to Major-General on 3rd October
1794. The second Lieutenant-Colonelcy was not filled up.
Captain N. Talbot became Major on 25th June.
Establishment,
Lieutenant-
Colonel —
Samuel
Hawker.
1 Recruiting-
parties ' sent
out.
1803
War broke out again. Considerable augmentations were
again ordered, and on the loth -of March the establishment of
the regiment was raised to 664 men and 600 troop-horses.
. The headquarters were at Hythe in November, where
Major-General Cartwright inspected on 5th December.
Colonel J. Michel was succeeded in the Lieutenant-Colonelcy
by Lieutenant-Colonel S. Hawker, who was brought back
again into the regiment from half-pay to command.
The full Colonel of the regiment, Lieutenant-General John
William Egerton, became Earl of Bridgewater.
1804
Further augmentations took place this year, and the regi-
ment now consisted of 10 troops of about 90 rank and file each.
The total gross cost of the regiment for one year came to
about ,£37,857-
The troopers required to complete the regiment up to its
augmented establishment were obtained partly by subaltern
officers being permitted to raise a stipulated number each for
promotion to a higher rank, and partly by the aid of ' recruit-
ing-parties' sent out to various centres. The recruits were
1806] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 53
chiefly obtained from London, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, and
Chichester. In December the establishment was definitely
fixed as follows : —
10 Troops. 50 Corporals.
54 Sergeants. 950 Privates.
10 Trumpeters. 1064 Troop-horses.
Captain (Brevet- Major) Richard Pigot became Major on
4th August vice H. Browne. Major-General Cartwright
inspected the regiment on ist June at Hythe under command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Hawker. The various troops of the
Fourteenth were much detached in separate stations same as
last year, and had no regular place to assemble in for drill.
Major- General Cartwright made a second inspection in
November at the same place (Hythe). In December head-
quarters were at Guildford, and portions of the regiment at
adjacent stations.
1805
In June the regiment moved to Hounslow.
On 22nd August, Major N. Talbot became second
Lieutenant-Colonel on augmentation of establishment, and
Captain Thomas Smith became Major.
There was a detachment at Kensington under Captain
P. Keogh, which consisted of 9 sergeants and 34 corporals,
selected from the 10 troops of the regiment.
Whilst stationed at Hounslow, Kensington, Hampton Court, Royal Escorts,
and other adjacent suburban places, the detached troops of the
regiment relieved those of the 9th Light Dragoons, and
supplied the travelling escorts and letter parties for His Majesty
King George in. and other members of the Royal Family, up
to the month of September. There were 640 effective troop-
horses by the end of the year.
1806
The regiment left Hounslow in July for the south-western
district, and headquarters were at Southampton on August ist,
54
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1807-
New carbines,
etc., issued ;
old arms and
bayonets re-
turned, 1807.
I4th Light
Dragoons
placed under
orders for the
Peninsula,
I9th October
1808.
at Winchester August i4th, and at Dorchester on October i4th,
having passed through Basingstoke and Alton en route.
Captain F. B. Hervey became Major on 8th May vice
R. Pigot.
1807
In July the regiment left Dorchester, and, after being
employed in the early part of the year on election duty in
the county of Sussex, for the Midhurst election at Petworth,
Fittleworth, and Pullborough, marched via Guildford, Farnham,
and Bagshot, to its former quarters at Hounslow, Kensington,
and Hampton Court.
A supply of new carbines and pistols was issued from the
ordnance stores this year to the regiment, including the two
augmentation troops, when the whole of the old pistols,
carbines, and bayonets were returned into store.
On 9th July, Captain the Honourable Charles Butler became
Major vice T. Smith.
In September the headquarters of the regiment under
Lieutenant-Colonel S. Hawker were at Blatchington, near
Brighton, and detachments were stationed at Eastbourne,
Hastings, and Bexhill, so the stay at Hounslow must have
been very short.
1808
On 5th July the regiment left Blatchington, Eastbourne,
Bexhill, and Hastings in four divisions, and marched through
London to Ipswich, arriving there 25th July, where it remained
three months. On i9th October a depot squadron with heavy
baggage was ordered to be left at Ipswich, and the four service
squadrons were placed under orders for active service in the
Peninsula. The regiment accordingly marched to Tiverton,
Taunton, Exeter, and Honiton, one squadron remaining for
a time at each place between i6th and 2Qth November, and
on the latter date the four squadrons marched to Flushing,
near Falmouth, where they embarked on 5th December on
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board several transports and sailed for Lisbon. The head- Regiment
quarters were at Romford on ist November and at Liskeard iTsbon,5 (
on ist December, previous to embarkation. 5th December-
On 23rd December, under command of Colonel Samuel
Hawker, the i4th (Duchess of York's Own) Light Dragoons
landed at Lisbon ready to take part in the war against the
French.
1809
The French Emperor, Napoleon Buonaparte, had already
invaded Spain and Portugal, and a British army had proceeded
to Portugal to help the Portuguese to expel the invaders.
The Portuguese had been successful, and an army under
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore was advancing into Spain,
where subsequently, on the i6th January 1809, it was defeated
by the French under Marshal Soult, at Corunna, and its
gallant leader killed. It was shortly before this catastrophe
that the Fourteenth arrived in Portugal to join the British
army, of which Major- General Sir Arthur Wellesley assumed
command when he arrived at Lisbon on 22nd April 1809.
Colonel Hawker, commanding the regiment, was appointed
A.D.C. to His Majesty King George in. with the rank of
Colonel in the army on 25th April. The regiment remained
quartered about Lisbon till the spring, when it advanced to
Bucellas, an outpost of our army, and formed the advance-
guard of the British troops on the march to Coimbra in the
month of April. In May the Fourteenth were brigaded with
the 1 6th Light Dragoons and 2oth Light Dragoons, as well as
with the 3rd Light Dragoons of the King's German Legion,
under command of Brigadier-General Stapleton Cotton (after-
wards Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere), and took part in
a review of the army in Portugal which was held at Coimbra1
1 The troops concentrated at Coimbra on 5th May were 25,000 sabres and
bayonets, of which 9000 were Portuguese, 3000 Germans, the remainder British.
There were also 24 guns. The cavalry division was commanded by Lieutenant-
General Payne ; the three infantry divisions by Edward Paget (ist), Sherbrooke (2nd),
Hill (3rd). Beresford's corps consisted of the Portuguese and a few British troops
— (Napier.)
56 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1809
before Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B. (after-
wards Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington); the other
cavalry brigade, 3rd and 4th Dragoon Guards, was under
the command of Brigadier-General Fane. The French troops
under Marshals Soult and Victor had, in the meantime,
invaded Portugal, and Marshal Soult had taken Oporto.1 The
first service undertaken by the British commander was to expel
the French from the important city of Oporto. Two squadrons
of the Fourteenth under Lieutenant - Colonel Neil Talbot
were detached with the Portuguese troops under Marshal
Beresford to intercept the French if they should attempt to
retreat northwards by Amarante. The remaining 3 squadrons
under Colonel Hawker advanced direct on Oporto with
the main body of the army, when, being employed with the
rest of the cavalry on outpost duty and advance-picquets,
they had several combats with the enemy, especially on the
loth and i2th May. It was on the i2th May when Sir
Arthur arrived on the banks of the Douro near Oporto,
** unperceived by the French, who were on the opposite (right)
bank. He determined to force a passage across the river, and
immediately detached 2 squadrons of the Fourteenth with
the German brigade and 2 guns under command of Major-
General John Murray 3 miles up the river on the left
bank to Barca de Avintas, where they effected a passage in
boats. In the meantime Sir Arthur concentrated the main
body of his army behind the Serra convent height, where
he posted 18 guns in a commanding position on the rock
near the convent, and having with difficulty obtained 3
large barges, began to send his troops across. In his careful
observation from the high ground the British general had
observed the horses and baggage of the enemy amid clouds
of dust retreating along the Vallonga road, and no large force
seemed near the river, neither were the guards or patrols vigi-
lant along the banks. There was a large building called the
seminary, placed admirably for defence, which also caught the
1 Cannon's Historical Record of ike i\tk Light Dragoons.
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British general's eyes, and large enough to hold two battalions
or more.1 The first troops to cross were only 25 men
under an officer, and these seized and occupied the seminary
so quietly that the French in Oporto were not roused. By
the time the third boat passed, in which was General Paget,
leader of the ist Division, the city was roused to arms, and
the seminary was furiously attacked. General Paget, who had
mounted the roof, fell severely wounded, and his place was
taken by General Hill, whose division, as well as General
Sherbrooke's, were crossing the river in all haste. The
English guns from the Serra opposite commanded the en-
closure of the seminary and swept the ground on one flank
with great effect. The struggle, however, was violent, and
as the expected help from General Murray did not appear,
the position was critical, especially as the numbers of the
enemy were so overwhelming. At length Murray was descried
coming down the right bank of the river. About this time
the French evacuated the lower city; the attack on the
seminary became slacker, and large columns of the enemy
were passing in haste and confusion along the Vallonga road.
Sherbrooke's men had most opportunely come upon the rear
of the French at the lower part of the town, and had taken
5 guns. Murray's arrival across the enemy's line of retreat
was of the greatest moment, but as he did not open his guns
on the crowds of troops passing along the Vallonga road,
Brigadier-General Charles Stewart, just at the right time,
headed a most effective charge which was executed by the
2 squadrons of the Fourteenth, one in support of the other,
gallantly led by Major F. B. Hervey2 and Major the Honour-
able Charles Butler, who charged through the enemy's rear-
guard as it was pushing through a narrow road to gain an
open space beyond, unhorsed the French general Laborde, and
1 This account of the Douro affair is from Napier's History of the Peninsular
War, from which numerous extracts have been made and much information gathered
and inserted in this Record, bearing on this campaign.
2 Afterwards Colonel Sir Felton B. Hervey, Bart., C.B., A.D.C.
58 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1809
wounded General Foy, but as no support was at hand from
Murray's troops, these brave men had to cut their way back
Losses of the with considerable loss. Major Hervey lost his right arm,
and the Fourteenth had 12 rank and file killed, i rank and
file missmg- Captain Peter Hawker, Lieutenant Robert
Knipe, Lieutenant Evelyn P. Dormer were wounded, as well
as i sergeant and 18 rank and file.
Napier says : ' This finished the action. The French
continued their retreat ; the British remained on the ground
they had gained. The latter lost 20 killed, a general and
95 men wounded ; the former had 500 men killed and
wounded.'
The Fourteenth lost heavily, as we have seen, in this
affair, but the gallant conduct of the regiment was highly
commended in Sir Arthur Wellesley's public despatch as
well as in general orders. The troops had marched 85 miles
in 4 days over most difficult country, and during 3 of those
days they were constantly fighting. The sudden arrival
of Murray's Division was a complete surprise to the enemy,
and the gallant charge of the i4th Light Dragoons at the
critical moment helped in a great measure to turn the tide
of victory completely in favour of the British, and to cause
the French to make a hasty retreat.
The following is an extract from the general orders issued
by Lieutenant- General Sir Arthur Wellesley, commanding the
British forces, dated Oporto, I2th May 1809 :—
' The passage of the Douro and subsequent movements on
the enemy's flank by Lieutenant-General Sherbrooke with the
Brigade of Guards and His Majesty's 29th regiment, and the
bravery of the two squadrons of the I4th Light Dragoons
under command of Major Hervey, and led by Brigadier-
General the Honourable Charles Stewart, obtained the victory
which has contributed so much to the honour of the troops
on this day.'
It was not till the year 1837 that permission was given
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for the regiment to bear the word ' Douro ' on its appoint-
ments.
The 1 4th Light Dragoons were now employed with the
separate corps under Marshal Beresford in following up the
French army under Marshal Soult as far as Ginjo. Here
they halted, and afterwards moved to Abrantes on the Tagus,
where the British army was concentrated for further opera-
tions. On 2/th June an advance was made in the direction of
Talavera de la Reyna, through Castello Brancho, Placentia,
and the valley of the Alberche in Estremadura. On i5th July
the British headquarters were at Placentia.
According to Napier, Sir Arthur Wellesley had now about
21,000 men with 30 guns, and Cuesta's Spaniards numbered
about 35,000 with 70 guns.
The British had one cavalry division, 6 regiments, 3047
sabres, under Lieutenant-General Payne in three brigades ; 3rd
and 4th Dragoon Guards under Fane, i4th and i6th Light
Dragoons under Cotton, and the cavalry of the King's
German Legion under Anson.
Four divisions of infantry as follows :—
ist, Lieutenant-General Sherbroke ; 2nd, Major-General
Hill ; 3rd, Major-General Mackenzie ; 4th, Briga-
dier-General Campbell.
The artillery was commanded by Major-General Howarth.
On the march through Spain the British army suffered
great privations from scarcity of provisions ; and the incapacity
of the Spanish general, as well as the unreliable nature of his
troops, caused Sir Arthur much anxiety, and greatly hampered
his movements. Towards the end of July two of the British
divisions were sent forward, as well as the whole of the cavalry,
to support a movement of the Spaniards against Marshal
Victor's army, which, according to reports circulated, was falling
back on Torrijos and behind the Guadarama river. Lieutenant-
Generals Sherbrooke and Payne commanded this force. On the
26th July the Spanish army under Cuesta was at St. Ollalla,
60 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1809
Sherbrooke was at Cassalegas, Sir Arthur Wellesley was at
Talavera, and Marshal Victor's army was only a few miles
from Cuesta's advanced posts with 50,000 men and 90 guns.
The French had also an army of 50,000 men under Mortier at
Salamanca. The Spaniards were driven back by Victor, and
had to retire on Talavera, supported by Sherbrooke and the
cavalry under Payne.
On the 27th July a battle was imminent, and Sir Arthur
left Mackenzie's Division with a brigade of cavalry to cover
a retrograde movement, whilst he withdrew the allies into a
position for order of battle six miles in rear. General Mac-
kenzie was left in a wood lying to the right of the Alberche,
which covered his left flank. Between 2 and 3 o'clock
this post was attacked by the French, when the i4th Light
Dragoons were ordered to advance, and they crossed the
river Alberche, sending out a line of skirmishers to cover the
Casualties of retirement of the infantry. The regiment was kept out skir-
front of mishing till nightfall, and lost 9 horses killed ; one officer,
Lieutenant Theophilus T. Ellis, and one private soldier
being wounded, and two horses missing.1 After performing
this service the Fourteenth resumed the post assigned them
in the allied army, which was in the rear of Brigadier-
General Campbell's Division. The position was as follows : —
the Spaniards were placed on the right of our line, their right
resting on Talavera; on their left came Campbell's Division,
in two lines ; Sherbrooke's Division came next to Campbell's,
in one line only ; Mackenzie's Division was destined to be
the second line to Sherbrooke's; Hill's Division was to be
on the left of the line. The whole line was two miles long,
and was an exceedingly well chosen and strong position. The
British and Germans mustered about 20,000 men under arms,
with 30 guns. The Spaniards had about 34,000 men and
70 guns. The French numbered 80 guns and 50,000 men,
and they were hardy veterans, while the allies had only 19,000
genuine soldiers.2 King Joseph Buonaparte was in command,
1 This was the combat of Salinas mentioned by Napier. 2 Napier,
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with Jourdan, Victor, and many other renowned generals
under him.
At daybreak on the morning of the 28th July, the British Battle of
left was attacked by the enemy's artillery and infantry, then JsthjSy' 1809;
the centre, lastly the right of the line became involved in fierce first attack-
contest. Both sides suffered heavily, the enemy more. At last
the French retired in disorder to their original position, still
keeping up a powerful fire of artillery.1
Our artillery was no match for the French : it was small
of calibre and the guns few in number. When Cuesta was
asked for reinforcements he sent two guns, but luckily these
were good and well served by the Spaniards. Sir Arthur
now sent for his cavalry, which was at a considerable distance ;
he also obtained some Spanish cavalry, and placed the whole
in mass six lines deep, the leading squadrons looking down a
valley on his left flank. After this, about 9 o'clock, there
was a cessation of hostilities for several hours.2
It was not till 12 o'clock that further hostilities took place. Second attack.
Then the French opened the fight with 80 pieces of
cannon, followed by the advance of their light troops, who
were supported by broad black columns in rear. Campbell's
Division was first attacked with fury, but it stood firm ; Mac-
kenzie's Brigade and his Spanish battalions gallantly with-
stood the onslaught, and after repulsing a second attack no less
vehement, aided by a flank charge of Spanish cavalry, secured
the victory in that quarter. On our left, a brilliant charge
of Anson's Brigade of cavalry took place, when the 23rd
Light Dragoons under Colonel Seymour and Major F.
Ponsonby, with the ist German Hussars under Colonel
Arentschild, charged Villate's troops. In this charge Colonel
Arentschild, seeing an impracticable piece of ground ahead of
him, pulled up his regiment just in time to avoid a catas-
trophe ; but the 23rd Light Dragoons, continuing their
advance, got into difficulties, and still going forward, were at
last completely overmatched by the enemy. They then had to
1 Napier. 2 Ibid.
62 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1809
retire, leaving half their numbers killed and wounded — con-
siderably more than 200. x *
The British centre was very hard pressed by Lapisse's
attack, and here it was that Sherbrooke's men bravely drove
back their assailants, when, encouraged by success, the
Guards and Germans incautiously made a bayonet charge, in
which the pursuit was carried too far, until our men were
finally repulsed by the French reserves of infantry and
dragoons. Confusion ensued, which caused the centre of the
line to give way and become hopelessly broken : our right and
left flanks, however, remained firm and resolute, Campbell
and Hill holding their positions against all attacks. Sir
Arthur saw that a critical and perilous moment had come, and
was determined to make a final effort to restore the centre.
Suddenly the 48th Regiment, led by Colonel Donellan, was
seen advancing from the hill right down on the flank of the
victorious French columns, pouring in such a steady and de-
structive fire of musketry as completely checked the enemy's
further movements. This enabled the Guards and Germans
to rally, whilst our guns played incessantly on their opponents,
and to crown all, a brigade of light cavalry under Brigadier-
Charge of General Cotton, consisting of the i4th and i6th Light
^Cotton's Dragoons, was seen rapidly advancing on the enemy's flank.
Brigade. This cavalry attack brought matters to a crisis : the enemy
was checked, began to waver, lost all impulse, the battle was
won.2 A general retirement to their former position subse-
quently took place along the French line. The British were
too exhausted by fatigue and weakened by losses to attempt
any pursuit, and no assistance could be given by the Spaniards.
At 6 o'clock all fighting ceased, and both armies remained
on their own positions. Thus it was that the i4th Light
Dragoons, i6th Light Dragoons, and the 48th Regiment, by
coming forward at the critical time when the Guards Brigade
was almost annihilated, contributed in no small measure to
1 Napier. 2 Ibid.
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change the fortunes of the day, and to gain the victory for the
British arms.
The Fourteenth lost at Talavera — Casualties of
Killed-2i horses, 3 men. SVSS^
Colonel S. Hawker, slightly. 28th July 1809.
Captain J. Chapman,
Wounded — 5 officers
Captain P. Hawker, [severely.
Lieutenant W. Wainman,
Lieutenant Thomas Smith, J
„ 6 men.
,, 3 horses.
Missing — 13 horses.
Taken prisoner — Lieutenant E. P. Dormer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot and Captain Baker had horses
killed under them in this battle.
The total losses of the British at Talavera were —
'33 officers, including Generals Mackenzie and Losses at
Killed -
Langworth.
Talavera.
800 men.
f 195 officers, including 3 generals.
\37oo men.
Missing I* officers'
[650 men.
In addition there were about 800 killed and wounded on
the 27th, the day before the battle.
The Spaniards lost 1 200 men.
The French lost 7389 officers and men.
Colonel Hawker was rewarded with a gold medal, and the
Fourteenth subsequently (1820) received authority to bear on
the guidons and appointments the word ' Talavera,' in com-
memoration of their distinguished services in this action.1
After the victory of Talavera, the French brought for-
ward such overwhelming armies in different directions under
Ney, Soult, Victor, Mortier, and other generals, with the
Cannon.
64 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1809
intention of cutting off and utterly crushing the allies, that
Sir Arthur Wellesley decided to act for some time on the
defensive, and withdrew his army towards Truxillo and Merida,
moving along the left bank of the Tagus, so as to baffle, if
he could, the strong combination of armies against him. At
first he moved to Deleytoza, crossing the river at Arzobispo,
Craufurd's Brigade and six guns being sent to secure the
boat-bridge at Almaraz and to cut off the French. About the
end of August, owing to various circumstances, principally the
scarcity of supplies and the bad conduct of the Spanish army,
Sir Arthur fell back into Portugal, and occupied the valley of
the Guadiana, his troops being distributed in Badajos, Elvas,
Campo Major, etc., but the men suffered considerably from
malignant fever in these districts. The Fourteenth were re-
moved to Villa Vi^osa, a town in Alemtejo (Portugal), and in
December they moved to Santarem, situated on the right
bank of the Tagus, in the Estremadura of Portugal. Here
they were formed in brigade under Major-General Slade
with the ist Royal Dragoons, a regiment recently come from
England.
During this year the rank of Troop-Sergeant- Major was
Establishment, introduced into the cavalry. The establishment of officers in
the regiment at this time was—
1 Colonel. i Adjutant (included in Lieu-
2 Lieutenant- Colonels. tenants).
2 Majors. i Surgeon.
9 Captains. i Assistant Surgeon.
21 Lieutenants. i Veterinary Surgeon.
8 Cornets. i Quartermaster,
i Paymaster.
The regimental agents were Messrs. Collyer and Son,
London.
Quartermasters became commissioned officers about this
year. The first commissioned Quartermaster in the Four-
teenth was Mr. Jameson, appointed 4th January 1810.
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1810
The 1 4th Light Dragoons had a regimental song1 at this
period, as follows : —
OLD REGIMENTAL SONG OF I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
USED IN THE PENINSULAR WAR.
'£A IRA!'2 1810 £/
Beaten backward in the press &}>s*l£jL '& ^^^flr*-^+-
Reeled the Old Fourteenth, / Q *
And in triumph shrill arose f C/ / /
The yell of the triumphant foes,
As, where the British Lion flew,
Flaunting ' White and Red and Blue ^^
Full well the fiery Frenchmen knew
The fame of the Fourteenth. ' s\
Beaten backward in the press ^w<4
Reeled the Old Fourteenth,
Cheerily their Colonel spoke
As the red line round him broke,
Laughing, waving with his hand
To the leader of the band,
As again they took their stand,
The men of the Fourteenth.
'Play the Frenchman's March,' he said,
The chief of the Fourteenth ;
' Strike it up, strike loud and clear,
As I stand before you here,
We will prove our mettle soon,
Ere yon pale sun rides at noon,
We '11 beat them to their own brave tune,
We men of the Fourteenth.'
On 1 4th March the Fourteenth left Santarem and returned
to the Alemtejo and took the advanced posts of Lieutenant-
General Rowland Hill's Corps at Arronches, a town situate at
the conflux of the Caya and the Aigrette, near the Spanish
1 This song was kindly presented by Mr. F. A. Hawker, son of the late General Sir
S. Hawker, G.C.H. Mr. Hawker also kindly gave the photograph of his father
which is reproduced in this Record.
2 ' Ca ira ! ' (French) = ' We shall succeed.'
E
66 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1810
confines. In June the Fourteenth advanced to Almeida in the
Beira province, and were attached to the Light Division under
Brigadier- General Craufurd, who was behind the Agueda
river watching the enemy's movements, when, with the i6th
Light Dragoons and ist Hussars (King's German Legion),
they took the outpost duty on this frontier.
Ciudad Rodrigo was at this time being invested by Marshal
Ney. Marauding parties of French used to enter the villages
of Barquilla and Villa de Puerco ; ambuscades were formed to
cut them off i the Fourteenth took part in them. On nth July
nth July 1810. . .
a portion of the regiment charged a square of French infantry
200 strong : the square withstood the charge and opened a
terrific fire. The gallant Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot, Quarter-
master M'Cormick, and n men were killed close up to the
bayonets, and 23 men were wounded. This occurred near
Sexmiro, in front of Ciudad Rodrigo, and as Colonel Hawker
had gone home wounded after Talavera, Lieutenant-Colonel
Talbot was virtually in command of the regiment at the
time of his death. Major F. B. Hervey succeeded him as
second Lieutenant-Colonel on 2nd August, and he assumed
command of the regiment in the absence of Colonel Hawker,
immediately after Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot fell, and subse-
quently when Colonel Hawker was appointed Major-General in
1811, he became the real commanding officer of the regiment,
and it was under his able leadership that the i4th Light
Dragoons became famous as Light Cavalry, being specially
celebrated for the excellent manner in which they performed
their outpost duties. Captain J. Chapman was promoted Major
on the same date, in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey.
Captain Brotherton, late of the I4th Light Dragoons
(afterwards General Sir T. W. Brotherton, G.C. B., who died
in 1868), has left a graphic account of the death and burial of
Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot, amongst other interesting incidents1
of his experiences in the Peninsula when serving in the Four-
1 These incidents are in MSS., and were kindly presented by the late Colonel the
Hon. G. H. Gough, C.B.
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teenth, as follows : — ' The most formidable thing for cavalry to
deal with is a square of steady infantry — indeed, such a square
may be said to bid defiance to cavalry unless the cavalry has the
aid of artillery to batter the square before charging it ; for the
formation, in square, to resist cavalry is a most murderous one
when exposed to artillery. At the village of Sexmiro we
encountered a square of French infantry. It was lying down,
concealed in some high-standing corn, and only rose up when
my squadron came within pistol-shot of it, and was beautifully
steady. We charged it most gallantly, but they fired a deadly
volley into us, and half my men fell killed or wounded. Colonel
Talbot, who commanded the regiment, had put himself at the
head of the squadron along with me. Poor fellow, he fell
pierced by eight balls, literally on the enemy's bayonets. The
moment the square had fired into and so sadly crippled us, it
moved off to join its support close by, and we were so shattered
as not to be able to follow. The French infantry behaved
beautifully on this occasion. It was the 6ist of the line.
Marshal Massena immediately bestowed the Cross of the
Legion of Honour on the officer commanding and several of
the non-commissioned officers and men. So steady and cool
was this little square, that though my horse fell, with the
wounded, within two yards of their ranks, not a man moved out
to bayonet me, but the square immediately retired in admirable
order. We were repulsed, suffered great loss, and left our
commanding officer, amongst others, dead on the field. I was
sent afterwards to ask for his body, and brought it in. It was
taken into a tent in which we messed. We all felt deep grief
at his loss, for we all loved him ; yet I never shall forget that
we ate a hearty meal with our beloved friend's corpse close to
us, uncovered. He had a glorious countenance in death. He
was a noble-looking fellow, and had died so instantaneously,
having had no less than eight balls through him, that his
countenance was but little altered. We buried him on the
glacis of Fort Conception, and a few days after I saw his
body blown into the air, along with the fragments of the
68 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1810
fort, when the explosion took place. What became of his
remains afterwards we never could ascertain, as several horses
and men were killed at the same time by the explosion. I may
add that I went out with a flag of truce to fetch his body.
When I arrived at the fatal spot where the murderous charge
of my squadron had taken place, I saw lying on the ground
only three French soldiers, one of whom was dead and the
other two much mutilated by our sabres, but this was all the
execution we had done in return for our severe loss. I brought
poor Talbot's body back, and we buried him (as already related)
on the glacis of Fort Conception. A few days afterwards the
premeditated explosion of this fort took place, when his body
was blown into the air. The blowing up and complete
destruction of this important and beautiful little Star Fort
which guarded the frontier of Spain, was an operation of
extreme delicacy, and of most critical and precarious execution,
for Colonel Burgoyne,1 the talented officer of Engineers,
selected for the task, had positive orders not to blow it up till
the very last moment (that is, till the advance of the enemy), so
that we might make use of it till the last moment, but not
leave a vestige of it for the enemy's use. These instructions
were carried into effect with extraordinary precision and most
thoroughly, though Massena had the meanness and effrontery
to say the contrary in his report to Napoleon. I had some
little share in the execution of this critical operation. I
happened to be on picquet in front of the fort on the night it
took place, or rather the morning, at daybreak. As it was a
matter of great importance to Massena to preserve the fort, if
possible, and prevent its destruction, which he knew was
planned, he thought he would best obtain this object by a
sudden and rapid advance on our picquets, driving them back
at a gallop, and arriving on the glacis of the fort as soon as we
did, when, he thought, the officer of Engineers would hesitate
to blow it up for fear of destroying our people. The match
was always kept ready in the fort for instantaneous explosion.
1 Afterwards Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.B.
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Knowing the state of the case, I had only just time to exclaim
to an officer close to me (named Wainman), who was beauti-
fully mounted on a thoroughbred horse, to go at speed to
Burgoyne and apprise him that we were being driven back most
rapidly, and that we had no time to lose. He arrived at the fort
only just in time to enable Burgoyne to explode the mine. I
found myself on the glacis just at this moment, and lost several
horses and men by the explosion, besides the harrowing sight
of poor Talbot's body being blown into the air. I had brought
the body slung across a troop-horse. He was a delightful
fellow, a friend I most deeply regretted, but singular and
eccentric, particularly in his dress. He was dressed, the day
he was killed, in nankeen pantaloons. Never was anything
like the grief for his loss. When we buried him not an eye
was dry.'
Napier says that four squadrons of the Fourteenth, under
Lieutenant- Colonel Talbot, took part in this charge against the
French infantry square.
On nth July, Ciudad Rodrigo surrendered, the Fourteenth
remained in the villages near Fort La Conception until the
2ist July, when, as the French were approaching in masses,
they fell back to Almeida. Here Brigadier-General Craufurd
was bold enough to halt and make a stand against the advancing
enemy, which led to the combat of Coa, in which the Light
Division suffered heavily, and lost over 300 men.
Early in the morning of the 24th July, after a wet and Outpost affair
• t » i • • • i • r i 11 °n the Coa»
stormy night on outpost duty, a skirmishing right took place 24th July 1 8 10.
with the French troops, who were advancing in force, near the
passage of the river Coa, when the Light Division was engaged
for a considerable time against superior numbers of the van-
guard of the French army commanded by Marshal Massena.
On this occasion the Fourteenth were engaged and had the
following casualties : killed — i sergeant; wounded — Lieutenant
Blatchford, i man and 4 horses.
Brigadier- General Craufurd stated in his despatch — ' The
retirement of the i4th Light Dragoons from Val-de-la-mula to
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Almeida was carried out in the most regular and soldier-like
manner, though opposed to a superior force of French
cavalry.'
Lord Wellington's headquarters were now at Alverca.
General Brotherton relates the following as to the fight at
Coa: — ' The combat of the Coa took place on 24th July 1810,
and was a very sharp affair ; where we were only 6000 strong,
against 24,000 brought into action by Massena. There were
many gallant and daring deeds done that day, in taking and
re- taking the bridge over the river of the same name. In one
of these attacks, one of the officers of the 43rd, (Frederick)
brother of Sir Richard of Barwood Park, was shot
through the leg. Happening to be close to him, I jumped off
my horse to assist him. He was bleeding profusely, and no
surgeon immediately at hand to stop it, I had my canteen slung
round me full of strong wine, and put it to his mouth, and
made him take a copious draught of it. Just as I had done this
the surgeon of the regiment came up, and I told him what I
had done, at which he expressed himself displeased, saying
that probably I should be the cause of his death ; but he
(Frederick ) always said afterwards to everybody that I
had saved his life by giving him the wine, as he felt so faint
that he felt he was dying. He lived afterwards in excellent
health till the 2ist June 1854.
' On the same day (24th July 1810) one of the officers under
my immediate command, Cornet B , was hit by a fragment
of a shell in the posterior, and as he was rather a soft sort of
fellow, I thought, at first, that he made too great a fuss about
it, though he turned deadly pale. But he had good reason to
complain, for the piece of shell had buried itself deep in his
buttock, and caused his death.'
From Almeida to the lines of Torres Vedras the regi-
ment in conjunction with the i6th Light Dragoons and ist
Hussars, King's German Legion, under the command of
Lieutenant-General Sir S. Cotton, Bart.,1 formed the rear-
guard of the army.
1 Afterwards Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.B., G.C.H.
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On 28th August one squadron, acting with a squadron of the Frexadas,
ist Royal Dragoons at Frexadas, was engaged with a superior f|Jo.AuEUS
force of the enemy and highly distinguished itself.
' The advanced posts of the British army having removed
to Frexadas, the French besieged and took Almeida on the
20th August, and on the day following they attacked a squadron
of the Royals and one of the I4th Light Dragoons on picquet
at Frexadas, under Major Dorville of the Royals. The enemy
brought forward a superior force of cavalry supported by
infantry, but the two squadrons, undaunted by the greater
numbers, charged the French with signal gallantry and drove
them from the field with the loss of many men killed and
wounded and 8 prisoners. The Royals lost 2 men and i horse
wounded.'1
On 24th September, when the enemy skirmished with our skirmish near
picquets near Mortagao, a squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons 24thtSept°embei
under Captain T. W. Brotherton, acting with a squadron ofl8ia
1 6th Light Dragoons and a squadron of ist King's German
Hussars, covered the retreat of the Light Division for 4 miles.
These 3 squadrons drove back 4 squadrons of French Hussars,
and the squadron of the Fourteenth charged the enemy's
cavalry, killing 30 men. .
On 25th September, Captain the Honourable H. Percy was
taken prisoner whilst reconnoitring near the heights of Busaco.
On this occasion the regiment, together with the Royals, was
employed to cover the retreat of the Light Division to the
position of Busaco. Whilst performing this duty against the Casualties of
masses of the French army advancing on Busaco during the 25°^ and 26th
25th and 26th September, the casualties of the i4th Light
Dragoons were as follows : —
Killed — i horse.
Wounded — i sergeant, 2 rank and file, 4 horses.
Missing — 3 rank and file, 7 horses.
The Fourteenth were now in brigade with the ist Royal
Dragoons under Major-General Slade, and Lieutenant-General
Sir Stapleton Cotton commanded the Cavalry Division.
1 General De Ainslie's Royal Dragoons, 1887, pp. 111-12.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1810
Battle of
Busaco, 27th
September
(in reserve).
On the 27th September, at the battle of Busaco, the Four-
teenth, together with the ist Royal Dragoons, were in reserve.
Subsequently they were employed in covering the retreat of the
army to the strong lines of Torres Vedras. This important
battle, after hard fighting, resulted in a victory for the allies.
The French lost 800 killed and i General, Grain-d'Orge, with a
total loss of about 4500, whilst the allies only lost 1300. The
position taken up by Lord Wellington was impregnable, and
Marshal Massena, after his repulse, marched towards Coimbra,
whilst the allies crossed the Mondego near Coimbra, and
moved towards Condeixa and Pombal.
General Brotherton relates the following incidents about
Busaco : — ' At the battle of Busaco, after the charge made on
our position by General Simon was repulsed, several of the
French soldiers, who had fallen wounded within a few yards of
our line, lay gasping in agony and thirst, calling out for water
to drink ; but such was the galling fire still kept up by the
enemy on this point, that it appeared almost certain death for
any one to show himself for an instant beyond the shelter which
some rocks afforded. I observed, however, a noble young
fellow, a Hanoverian belonging to the German Legion, walk
coolly and deliberately from behind a rock, and going to the
nearest wounded French soldier who was calling out for drink,
but lay in a most contorted and painful position (one of his legs,
which was broken by a musket-shot, being bent under him),
applied his canteen to the poor fellow's mouth, after having,
without the least degree of hurry or trepidation (though the
fire continued most heavy), settled his head on his knapsack,
and otherwise made his position less painful. The fine young
fellow did this successively to several other wounded French-
men, and then returned to his regiment. When first this
young officer stepped out, the enemy, fancying he might be
leading an attack, redoubled their fire, but when they perceived
what he was doing, the firing immediately ceased, and was
succeeded by vociferous cheering at his conduct. A more
affecting scene I never beheld in the field, and I only regret
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that, almost at the same moment, I witnessed a disgusting
contrast to it. A staff officer, a German, whose name I shall
abstain from mentioning, placed himself in perfect security
behind a rock, and with a rifle, with which he piqued himself
on being an unerring shot, kept picking off French officers and
soldiers by way of amusement ! I remonstrated with him on his
barbarous conduct, and shamed him out of it, but not before he
had hit several poor fellows who were actually employed at the
time in burying their dead (it was a working-party sent out for
the purpose). The remembrance of such conduct makes my
blood curdle in my veins even at this time.
' At this same battle (Busaco) I witnessed an instance of the
nervousness and superstition of the bravest soldiers. A battalion
of the German Legion (Hanoverians) was sent down to drive
the French out of a wood which they occupied in our front.
They drove the enemy out most gallantly, but immediately
after came running back most wildly and unaccountably till we
learnt the cause. It appeared that part of the enemy's troops
occupying the wood were part of the German contingent in the
French service, and amongst them were some Hanoverians.
On finding this out, our Hanoverians fled with the utmost
precipitation out of the wood they had so gallantly gained
possession of, horrified at the idea of fighting against their
countrymen, and perhaps their relatives.'
Another of the General's stories is well worth relating. He Nuns and
says : — ' On the retreat of the army to the famous lines of Torres SJyJPJJ*
Vedras, when in command of the rearguards, a whole convent crouPe-
of nuns came running out of their convent, as I passed by it,
and implored me to save them from the French. It was im-
possible for me to stop to protect them, and yet I could not
bring myself to leave the poor creatures to the tender mercies
of the French soldiers, though they were neither young nor
handsome, but old and sallow, from penance and vigils, no
doubt ; so I resolved on the expedient of placing these poor
distracted creatures (22 in number) en croupe behind as many
dragoons. They had uneasy seats, but clasped the dragoons
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tightly round their waists, and we brought them safe into
the lines of Torres Vedras, to their great joy and to the
great amusement of all those who saw my convoy — such an
one as had never before, I suppose, been escorted in this
manner by dragoons. Lord Wellington heard of this adven-
ture, and was much amused by it, and the next time I dined
with him, after it took place, he complimented me on my
chivalrous affair and laughed heartily about it.
' I was not so fortunate with a cargo of a very different
description which I once attempted also to carry off en croupe.
It was a famous " Murillo" altar-piece at Medina de Ris Secco,
in Castile. One of the priests came running out to me as I
was patrolling through the streets in search of the enemy, and
told me of this famous picture, and advised me, as the French
were momentarily expected, to have it taken down, rolled up,
and placed carefully between two dragoons, the ends resting
on their valises, for it was a large picture. Ill-luck, however,
would have it that the French never entered Medina at this
period, and knowing how I should get blamed for taking away
this picture except to save it from the French, I was obliged, after
having carried it a considerable distance, to retrace my steps,
having heard of the retreat of the enemy, and replace the
picture whence I had taken it. It was afterwards, however,
taken away by Marshal Soult, and is, I believe, at this moment
part of his dishonestly acquired collection. He was one of
the most unscrupulous plunderers in the French army, and
this is saying a great deal for him ! '
All this time the French legions in overwhelming numbers
were still pressing on, and the i4th Light Dragoons formed
the rearguard of our army as far as Pombal. On the ist of
October Lord Wellington's outposts were drawn in from the
heights of Coimbra, on which occasion 3 troops of the Four-
teenth under Major the Honourable Charles Butler constituted
the rearguard, and they proceeded through the town in rear
of the Light Division, and then acted on the main road leading
to Pombal. The remainder of the regiment was acting on
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the plain with the rest of the cavalry of the army, but had to
withdraw before the superior force of the enemy, crossing the
Mondego at a ford below the town, and then skirmishing to
prevent the passage of that river by the French. Here some
sharp fighting took place, and the enemy's cavalry attacked
and cut down some of the British in the middle of the river,
and altogether 50 or 60 men were lost.
That night (ist October) the British headquarters were at
Redinha, having passed through Condeixa, eight miles from
Coimbra, and next day they were at Leiria. The retreat now
became somewhat hasty and disordered, and plundering com-
menced, but Lord Wellington took vigorous measures to
enforce discipline. At Leiria, three men taken in the act
were hanged. On the evening of the 4th October the French
drove the English picquets from Pombal, and next morning
came so suddenly upon Leiria as to create general confusion.
There were daily encounters going on between our rearguard
and the enemy's advanced bodies, and the Fourteenth had
frequent opportunities of proving their valour, which they
certainly did not fail to take advantage of. At Rio Mande- Rio
villa, together with the ist Royal Dragoons, the i6th Light Is ia
Dragoons, the ist German Hussars, and Captain Bull's troop
of artillery, they repulsed a very superior force, on which
occasion the ist French Hussars were nearly annihilated. The
English lost 3 officers and 50 men, and the French many more :
it is believed the enemy had 36 squadrons opposed to 10.
The casualties of the Fourteenth at Rio Mandevilla were — Casualties at
6 men killed ; 8 men, 1 2 horses wounded, and also on 4th, villa, etc. e
5th, 8th, and Qth October they lost i man wounded, and
1 2 men and 2 horses missing.
On the loth, Lord Wellington occupied the fortified lines of Lines of Torres
Torres Vedras, where the Fourteenth took charge of the out- pfcdHot?11"
posts on the line from the Sobral road in front of Torres Vedras October l8ia
so long as the French army under Marshal Massena, Prince of
Essling, remained opposed to us in the vicinity of these
stupendous lines of defensive works. Here the two armies
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watched one another for a considerable time, but at length,
after frequent reconnoitring, the French commanders declined
to attack, and during the night of the I4th November, Massena
retired and established his army upon the heights of Santarem,
where he remained till the night of the 5th March 1811.
The morning of the I5th November was foggy, and the
retreat of the enemy was not discovered for several hours
after daybreak. The Fourteenth were ordered forward along
the Cartaxo road, and their advanced patrols took a number of
stragglers prisoners. The British headquarters were soon
re-established at Cartaxo, where the regiment was intrusted
with the outposts extending from the causeway and bridge
over the river.
Sobrai, Captain Brotherton relates the following incident with
November reference to the affair at Sobrai :— ' On the last day of our
retreat into the famous lines of Torres Vedras before Massena's
army, we had a very sharp affair at a place called Sobrai, so
much so that we were hotly engaged and literally intermixed
with the enemy, particularly the yist Foot, the Rifles, and
ourselves, the i4th Light Dragoons. The enemy were in
very superior force, and we were giving way very fast. At
this moment Colonel (then Captain) Perceval fell close to me,
pierced by two balls, one through his leg and another through
his arm. He was on the point of falling into the hands of
the enemy. In those days I was particularly active, and as
we were running away, I could use my legs as well as any-
body, so I dismounted, and put poor Perceval on my horse,
and joined in the scramble on foot, till I came up to a mounted
dragoon of my own regiment. As, in action, the presence and
exertions of an officer are more valuable than those of a
private, it is not only justifiable, but it is incumbent on an
officer, sooner than leave the field, to dismount a private, and
take his horse. This I accordingly did without having time
to ask any questions. When the fight was over, the late
General Sir Denis Packe, a warm-hearted but very passionate
man, whose orderly I had unknowingly dismounted, came up
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to me and lectured me most severely and harshly for having
done so ; and certainly, had I known the man was orderly to
a General Officer, I would not have dismounted him, as it is
essential for a General to have his orderly in action. I had
presence of mind enough to make no reply, but bear the
reprimand in silence. The General went away, but his aide-
de-camp, Captain Synge (now Colonel Synge), having informed
him of the circumstances under which I had taken his orderly's
horse, he returned and made me many apologies for having
reprimanded me, and praised what I had done. It was a
heartfelt satisfaction to have saved poor Perceval, who, to the
last day of his life, was grateful for it. He died at Brussels
in 1838, and his wife has told me since that almost with his
last breath he exclaimed, " Generous Brotherton ; he once saved
my life f" This was very gratifying to me.'
On 2Oth October a Trumpet-Major was authorised to be Establishment
borne on the establishment of cavalry regiments with the pay a
of a sergeant. Cavalry regiments of ten troops to have one
trumpet-major and nine trumpeters.
The following: is one of General Brotherton's anecdotes of At Torres
V r\
what occurred when the Fourteenth were at Torres Vedras : —
' When we were in the famous lines of Torres Vedras, I had gone
to dinner, to some friends of the Guards, on a mule, and return- The sagacity
ing to my regimental bivouack at night, I became apprehensive ofamule-
of going into an enemy's picquet by mistake. I came to a
turning which I thought I knew well, and tried to turn my
mule to the left, which I thought was the right road, but he
insisted on going to the right. We had a great battle, but
all I could do was in vain, and he carried me his own way, to
the right, and I got safe to my camp. I had the curiosity
next morning to go to the spot where the mule and myself
had differed in opinion, when I found that he was not only
right, but that I was so wrong, that, if I had had my own way,
I should have gone right into the enemy's camp.'
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1811
In the Army List for this year the regiment appears with —
1 Colonel. i Paymaster.
2 Lieutenant-Colonels. i Veterinary Surgeon.
2 Majors. i Adjutant.
10 Captains. i Surgeon.
22 Lieutenants. 2 Assistant- Surgeons.
7 Cornets. i Quartermaster.
Agents — Messrs. Colly er, London.
On the 1 5th February, Viscount Wellington's headquarters
were at Cartaxo. The Fourteenth were still in brigade with the
ist Royal Dragoons, and their Brigadier was Major-General
Slade.
On 6th March, at daybreak, Viscount Wellington discovered
that the French had retreated and left their camp at Santarem.
Marshal Massena was really forced to take this step, his army
having become so wasted by sickness and privation. Our
troops accordingly advanced in pursuit, the Fourteeth still being
employed on outpost duty, and forming part of the advance-
guard of the army.
On 8th March, Captain Babington's squadron, supported
by the remainder of the regiment under Lieutenant- Colonel
Hervey, made a brilliant and most successful charge against
four squadrons of the nth and 26th French Dragoons at
Ventade Venta de Serra, capturing 14 men and 14 horses, and losing
Sena, 8th
March 1811. only 2 men and 2 horses.
The regiment was now engaged in the different skirmishes
and actions which were fought by our troops against the rear
of the retreating enemy, the principal of which were : —
Pombal, loth March.
Redinha, I2th March.
Casal Nova, I4th March.
Foz D'Aronce, i5th March.
Battle of Sabugal, 3rd April.
Miranda de Colvo.
Tay D'Aortos.
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In these various engagements in which the Fourteenth took
part, they escaped without any casualties.
The French army were heavy losers in the fight at Sabugal, sabugai,
where they were unskilfully handled by Reynier, and Iost3rd Apnll8ll>
1 500 men to the allies' 200. Wellington said, ' This was
one of the most glorious actions British troops were ever
engaged in.' The whole affair did not last an hour. It
took place on the banks of the Coa : Reynier had to attack
the British up hill. The 43rd and 52nd Regiments of Light
Infantry particularly distinguished themselves under Brigadier-
General Beckwith, and captured a howitzer. Brigadier-
General Colville's Brigade of the 3rd Division by a resolute
fire on the French left decided the victory, and our cavalry
pursued the flying enemy in their retreat to Rendo and
Alfayates. The larger portion of the French army had
reached Ciudad Rodrigo about the 4th April, and from thence
Marshal Massena, Prince of Essling, continued his retrograde
movement to Salamanca, which he occupied.
Wellington was now on the confines of Portugal, and
invested Almeida. The Light Division occupied Gallegos
and Espeja, whilst the rest of his army was disposed in villages
on both sides of the Coa, and the headquarters were settled at
Villa Formosa on the frontiers of Spain and Portugal. The
Fourteenth furnished the outposts on the left bank of the
Agueda, at Villa del Egua in the Spanish province of Leon,
and intelligence was brought in from the Spanish town of
Ledesma to the effect that the French army had been
reinforced and reorganised, and that it was advancing. A
squadron of the Fourteenth was hastily despatched under
command of Captain Brotherton to Santa Esperita, but this
was soon driven back behind the Agueda by the advancing
columns of the enemy.
General Brotherton relates the following amusing anecdote
with reference to the experiences of his patrol on this occasion :
— ' I had been sent (in May 1811) patrolling to a distance from
the army, in search of the enemy, when we were behind the
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Agueda, and had not found him after a most harassing and
fatiguing day, in most sultry weather, and could not get back
to the army that night, but put up at San Felices, where I con-
sidered we were out of reach of the enemy. I put up at the
priest's house, placing the men and horses, twelve in number,
under sheds, in a large back yard, and felt so fatigued myself
that I was tempted by the sight of a nice clean bed, and after a
hearty supper which the priest gave me, to turn into bed, where
I soon fell fast asleep. In the middle of the night I was woke
by the priest coming to my bedside, and telling me that some
French cavalry were passing through the town. I jumped up,
and went to the window, and, by the light of the moon, which
shone brightly, sure enough, I saw French cavalry very com-
posedly walking through the streets, and just commencing to
billet off, knocking at the different doors, and at the same
moment came a loud rap at the priest's door. I had not even
time to put on my breeches, but scampered off with only my
cloak and my sword, and got down just in time to jump on my
horse, and get my party out of the back gate, and galloped off
in an opposite direction to that which the enemy had come
from. I was not followed, and the enemy changing his intention
marched through the place without halting in it, so I returned
to fetch my breeches, etc., and to thank the honest and hospit-
able priest who, though frightened at first, laughed heartily at
my sans culotte adventure, which was matter of mirth through-
out the army.'
The object of this advance of the Prince of Essling was to
relieve Almeida, which the allies had besieged. On 25th April
he reached Ciudad Rodrigo.
On the 3rd May, whilst we were retiring in the face of very
superior numbers of the enemy, Lieutenant John Townsend1 of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons was in charge of the picquets, and
he had to bring them in gradually under a heavy cannonade
Affairs at towards Fuentes d'Onor. The main body of the Fourteenth
Bojo^ihof was engaged the same day behind Gallegos, and a squadron
1 Afterwards Colonel J. Townsend, A.D.C., commanding I4th Light Dragoons.
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commanded by Captain Brotherton had a sharp skirmish near
Po9o Velho. Wellington had concentrated the main body of
his army behind the Duas Casas river, and the French had to
cross the Azava river, which was swollen and difficult to ford :
this delayed them a few days, and the British advanced posts
fell back on Fuentes d'Onor, where the main body occupied a
tableland between the Turones and Duas Casas, their left being
at Fort Conception, their centre opposite the village of Alameda,
and their right behind Fuentes d'Onor.
On the 4th May, Wellington extended his right to Nave Battle of
d'Aver, which, excluding the circuit of blockade round Almeida, #0*0*, sth
made his line of battle 7 miles in length, but this gave himMayl811-
a safer line of retreat. Our cavalry was very weak at this
battle, and the enemy was particularly strong in that arm :
ours did not exceed a thousand sabres. The French attack
commenced two hours after daybreak on the 5th May, by
Montbrun turning the right of Wellington's Seventh Division,
and then charging the British cavalry, which had moved up in
support.
The attack made on our position in the rear of the village
is thus alluded to by Napier : — ' The French with one shock
drove in all the cavalry out-guards, and cutting off Captain
Ramsay's battery, came sweeping in upon the reserves of horse
and upon the Seventh Division. But their leading squadrons
approaching in a disorderly manner, were partially checked by
the British, and, at the same time, a great commotion was
observed in their main body. Men and horses there closed
with confusion and tumult towards one point, a thick dust
arose, and loud cries, and the sparkling of blades, and the
flashing of pistols, indicated some extraordinary occurrence.
Suddenly the multitude became violently agitated, an English
shout pealed high and clear, the mass was rent asunder, and
Norman Ramsay burst forth at the head of his battery, his
horses, breathing fire, stretched like greyhounds along the plain,
the guns bounding behind them as things of no weight, and the
mounted gunners followed in full career. Captain Brotherton
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of the 1 4th Dragoons seeing this, rode forth with a squadron
and overturned the head of the pursuing troops, and General
Stewart joining in the charge, took the French General
Lamotte, fighting hand to hand.'
After this the British cavalry had to retire behind the Light
Division, which was thrown into squares. The Seventh Division
fell back from Nave d'Aver, taking up a fresh position across
the Turones river by Freneda, and during this retrograde
movement the right flank was covered by the- I4th Light
Dragoons and the Royal Dragoons, who retired in good
order by alternate squadrons under a heavy cannonade. One
squadron of the Fourteenth charged some French artillery
with great gallantry, but was repulsed, and it was here that
Captain Knipe, commanding the squadron, fell mortally
wounded, and was succeeded by Lieutenant (afterwards Colonel)
John Townsend, who took command of the squadron. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hervey at the head of the regiment had his
horse killed under him, and received a severe contusion.
The following casualties were incurred in this battle by
the Fourteenth : —
{Captain Knipe.
4 men.
6 horses.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey.
Captain Milles.
Lieutenant Townsend.
Lieutenant Gwynne.
Wounded
Lieutenant Badcock.
Lieutenant Ellis.
13 sergeants.
28 men.
^23 horses.
men.
[4 horses.
The battle of Fuentes d'Onor was a hardly contested
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one. The French were superior in cavalry, having 5000
to our 1 200, and having 40,000 infantry, 36 pieces of artillery,
and a battery of the Imperial Guard to our 32,000 infantry
and 42 guns. What took place on our extreme right has
already been described. At the same time, nearer the centre,
and in front of the village of Fuentes d'Onor, a fierce battle
also raged, and two companies of the 79th Regiment were taken,
Colonel Cameron being mortally wounded. It was here the
French general, Drouet, made his furious attack on our lines,
when he captured the lower part of the village notwithstanding
the gallant stand made by the 7ist, 79th, and 88th Regiments,
who, though overmatched at first by sheer numbers and the
fierce vigour of the attack, never quite relinquished the whole
village, but rallied and then made a charge in which large
numbers of the enemy fell. Here the fighting went on till
evening, when the French at last retired some distance from
the stream, and the British remained holding on to the crags
and chapel.
On the extreme left, near Fort Conception, the allies
maintained their position ; and when at length the fighting,
which had been desperate, came to an end, both armies re-
mained as it were in observation the one of the other.
The total losses of the allies were 1500 men and officers,
of whom 300 were taken prisoners. The enemy's loss was
estimated at 5000, but this was over the mark. By the
loth May, Massena had retired beyond the Agueda, having
been foiled in the attempt to relieve Almeida, and shortly
afterwards Marmont assumed command of the French army
operating towards Portugal. Both sides claimed a victory at
Fuentes d'Onor, and Napier says, 'more errors than skill were
observable on both sides ' in this battle.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey received a gold medal, and the
Royal authority was granted in 1820 for the Fourteenth to bear
on its guidons and appointments the words ' Fuentes d'Onor,'
as a special mark of His Majesty's approbation of the conduct
of the regiment on this occasion.
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General
Brotherton's
anecdotes
about the
battle of
Fuentes
d'Onor.
Death of
Captain
Knipe.
General Brotherton relates several interesting episodes
about Fuentes d'Onor : —
i. 'At Fuentes d'Onor the Adjutant-General of the army
(Lord L ) was near me, particularly in one remarkable
instance in which he joined in a charge I made to protect and
rescue Captain Ramsay's guns of the Horse Artillery, as
mentioned in Napier's History. At another period of the
battle he ordered me to go to the assistance of Don Julian
Sanchez, whose guerillas were getting roughly handled by some
French cavalry. Of course I immediately obeyed, though it
seemed to me an injudicious order, for on this memorable day
our great inferiority in cavalry (the enemy having fully 4000
in the field of their very best, a large proportion of it of the
Imperial Guard, and commanded by Montbrun, one of their
best officers) rendered it advisable to keep the little we had
constantly together, and detaching any of it to a distance
a dangerous step. However, as I before said, I instantly
obeyed, and started at a brisk trot ; for, in action, the least
hesitation or slowness in executing an order is inexcusable in
an inferior officer. I had not proceeded one hundred yards,
when Lord Wellington, who was just arriving on this part of
the field, rode up to me and asked me where I was going. I
told him the orders I had received from Lord L (then
General S.). He made no further observation than " Go back ! "
2. 'At Fuentes d'Onor we had a very fine fellow, Captain
Knipe, killed through his gallant obstinacy, if I may so call it.
We had the night before been discussing the best mode for
cavalry to attack batteries in the open field. He maintained,
contrary to us all, that they ought to be charged in front,
instead of the usual way in gaining their flanks, and thereby
avoiding their fire. Poor fellow, the experiment next day, in
support of his argument, was fatal to him. He had the
opportunity of charging one of the enemy's batteries, which
he did by attacking it immediately in front, and got through
the discharge of round-shot with little loss ; but the enemy
having most rapidly reloaded with grape, let fly at his party,
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at a close and murderous distance, almost entirely destroying
it; he himself receiving a grape-shot, passing through his
body. The shot went through his lungs. I was with the
poor fellow the next morning, as long as he survived. He
could speak distinctly, and was most composed and resigned,
and even argued the point over again. His chief anxiety,
however, was to be permitted to write a line to his mother,
and he expired in the very act of attempting it. We buried
him in the same grave with another gallant soldier who fell
that day, Colonel Cameron of the 79th Highlanders.
3. 'Captain Badcock, commanding a squadron of the 1 4th Captain ^
Light Dragoons, was sitting on his horse at the head of his adventure,
squadron, when he took for Spaniards running away (a very
usual occurrence) some cavalry rapidly approaching him in
line, and remained perfectly steady, intending to charge those
who appeared to be following the supposed Spaniards, the
moment the latter had passed him. He was, however, not
very agreeably surprised by being undeceived by a cut across
the face from the French officer (for the supposed Spaniards
were French). Badcock, however, who was an excellent
officer, contrived, notwithstanding his surprise, to drive the
enemy back in gallant style, with the loss, however, of two of
his teeth ; but he never thought of his wound till he had
completed his duty, and then even never left the field for
one moment.
4. 'Colonel Hervey, at the battle of Fuentes d'Onor, escaped Lieutenant -
losing his right leg by having put a thick book (Quenedo's Hervey's
Works, which he had taken from a private house the day before) escape-
into his sabretache. An eight-pound shot entering the sabre-
tache, went through the horse, and just appeared on the other
side of his body, without coming through the skin, and it was
evident that the thick book prevented it from going through
and taking off Colonel Hervey's leg. Poor fellow, he had
already lost his right arm ; and his leg, from the blow, imme-
diately swelled to an immense size, but though the horse fell
down dead, and in the fall again hurt him, he would not leave
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1811
Equine
sagacity.
The brave
Don Julian.
the field, but had himself placed under a tree, where he remained
during the remainder of the battle/
5. It was either Fuentes d'Onor or the affair of Espeja,1
near Ciudad Rodrigo, about which General Brotherton says : —
' I had my charger shot under me, and got on a troop-horse
which was also shot under me, through the head, by the pistol
of a French officer, so closely that my own face was singed.
The animal fell, and a sergeant behind me dismounted and
gave me his horse, and I thought no more of the animal that
was shot through the head, supposing that he never rose
again ; but on rejoining the main body of the regiment I found
that the poor animal had arisen by an effort, gone back to
where the regiment was formed, placed himself in the ranks
in his own squadron, and then fell down dead ! This fact,
almost incredible, can be vouched for by any officer or private
belonging to the i4th Light Dragoons at the time.
6. ' I commenced the battle of Fuentes d'Onor by running
away with 2 squadrons, for about 2 miles, pursued by a
brigade of French cavalry. I had been sent the night before
to the village of Nave d'Aver, which was occupied by that
humbug, Don Julian Sanchez, with his corps of infantry and
cavalry. It was a strong post, on an eminence, surrounded
by stone wall enclosures, similar to those in Ireland, and no
cavalry alone ought to have carried it. I arrived there late
at night, and could not see what arrangements Don Julian
had made for defence ; but he assured me all was secure, and
that he meant to defend himself most obstinately, before he
retired. Just at daybreak in the morning, however, having
requested him to show me where his picquets were posted, he
pointed out to me what he said was one of them, but I observed
to him that it appeared to me in the dusk of the morning too
large to be one of his picquets, but he persisted. However,
the sun rising rapidly, as it does in these countries, dispelled
the fog and the illusion the same moment, for what Don Julian
pointed out to me as his picquet, proved to be a whole regi-
1 Or Espejo (Cannon).
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ment of French cavalry dismounted. They mounted imme-
diately and advanced. I still thought the Spaniards would
make a stand, as cavalry alone never ought to have carried
the village; but the brave Don Julian, as the Spaniards called
him, took himself off immediately with his whole force to the
mountains, and left me with my 2 squadrons to shift for
myself. The consequence was that I was pursued by the
whole French cavalry towards the position at Fuentes d'Onor,
where the army was drawn up, and the advance-guard of
which was at POC.O Velho, which, as I approached, I saw
occupied by red-coats, and began to breathe and feel secure.
As I approached I found our infantry posted with great
regularity and steadiness, but as they did not commence firing
on the French cavalry that were closely pursuing me, I rode
up to the first officer I could approach, and asked him why he
did not fire and stop the progress of the enemy. He replied
with astonishment, "Are those the French?" I told him I
knew it to my cost, having sustained considerable loss from
them during my retreat. He immediately commenced firing
on them, and most effectually checked them, bringing down
numbers of men and horses. I found this was the 85th
regiment, only just come up to the army, and never having
seen the enemy before. There was, however, no want of
steadiness and bravery when once they were told it was the
enemy. This gave me the liberty of retiring leisurely to
the position where the army was drawn up, and the battle
then commenced in earnest. At this battle the numerical
superiority of the enemy, in cavalry, was four to one, and of
the best description, a considerable proportion being cavalry
of the Guard ; and some of the most distinguished of the
French cavalry generals were commanding it — Montbrun,
Fournier, etc. This was an eventful and critical battle.'
We have thus seen how the attempt to relieve Almeida
had signally failed; but on the night of the loth May the
garrison blew up the fortifications, destroyed the guns, and
breaking through the picquets in one column, skilfully led by
88 "HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1811
General Brennier, the governor of the fortress, made good
their escape and joined the main body of the French army
which then withdrew to Salamanca.
Lord Wellington now proceeded to Estremadura, leaving
a large portion of his army on the Portuguese frontier, near
Ciudad Rodrigo. The Fourteenth and Royal Dragoons,
brigaded under Major-General Slade, took the outposts on
the Agueda, covering the front between Villa del Egua,
Gallegos, and Espeja.
Subsequently Marshal Marmont, Due de Raguse, advanced
once more with a numerous army and drove back the British
posts from Ciudad Rodrigo, having introduced a convoy into the
town. On the morning of the 6th June two French columns
appeared, when the Light Division was directed to retire from
Gallegos upon Nave d'Aver, and subsequently upon Alfayates.
A squadron 1 of the Fourteenth acted with the Royal Dragoons
under Lieutenant-Colonel Clifton to cover the retrograde
movement. This retreat is described by General de Ainslie
as follows, in his Historical Record of the Royal Dragoons : —
' The Royal Dragoons, under Lieutenant-Colonel Clifton, to-
gether with a troop of the 1 4th Light Dragoons, assembled at
3 A.M. at Gallegos for the purpose of covering the retreat. At
7 A.M. the enemy, numbering 2000 cavalry, 6000 infantry, and
10 guns showed themselves, and this overwhelming force was
met by the British cavalry in a most resolute and able manner.
The celebrated French cavalry general, Montbrun, in vain
endeavoured to outflank the Royals and i4th Light Dragoons.
His squadrons were twice attacked and defeated, and the
retreat of the Light Division was effected with little loss.
Lieutenant-General Sir Brent Spencer, commanding the forces,
in the absence of Viscount Wellington in Estremadura, thus
reports to his lordship on these events : — " It is with the
greatest pleasure I have to mention the very admirable conduct
of 'the Royals' under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
1 Cannon, p. 34, says it was a squadron, but General de Ainslie in his Historical
Record of the Royal Dragoons (p. 120) says it was only a troop of the Fourteenth.
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Clifton, and one troop of the i4th Light Dragoons, which,
being all that were employed in covering the front from Villa
del Egua to Espeja, were assembled at Gallegos, and retreated
from thence agreeably to my directions, and notwithstanding
all the efforts of General Montbrun, who commanded the
French cavalry, to outflank the British, pressing them at the
same time in front with eight pieces of cannon. Their retreat
to Nave d'Aver merits the highest commendation."
Marshal Marmont afterwards went to Spanish Estremadura
with his large army, and the British general withdrew the
troops he had in front of Badajos, and brought them to the
vicinity of Ciudad Rodrigo, from which they had previously had
to retire into Portugal. In the blockade of that city the Four- Blockade of
teenth took part as usual in the outposts, and when the French
army advanced to relieve the blockade the regiment was
stationed at Espeja, on the lower Azava, with advanced posts
at Carpio and Marialva. The French marshal managed to
get supplies into Ciudad Rodrigo, and brought up such
enormous forces that eventually the blockade was raised
and the British had to fall back. On the 23rd September,
Marmont, advancing from Tamames, encamped behind the
hills north-east of Ciudad Rodrigo. On the 24th the convoy
entered the town, and 2 columns of French crossed the hills.
On the same day Lord Wellington brought up a division of
the allies to the position of Guinaldo, the rest of his army
being disposed at various adjacent places such as Elbodon,
Pastores, on the Vadillo (a river which falls into the Agueda,
3 miles above Rodrigo), Nave d'Aver, Espeja, and the lower
Agueda.
On the 25th September, contrary to the British general's
expectation, the French advanced from the Vadillo. Soon after
daybreak 14 squadrons of the Imperial Guards drove the out-
posts from Carpio across the Azava ; the Lancers of Berg Affair at
crossed the river in pursuit, but they were charged and driven
back by a squadron of the Fourteenth and 2 squadrons ofl8u-
the 1 6th Light Dragoons, upon which Carpio was again
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1811
Casualties at
Carpio, etc.
Afiurat
Espeja, Sep-
tember 1811.
occupied by the British. The same day another strong body
of the enemy under Montbrun attacked the British at Elbodon,
from which they had to retire, the Fourteenth also falling back
from Carpio, and a succession of retrograde movements of the
whole of the allies now took place, until on the morning of the
28th they took up a strong position in front of the Coa, their
right resting on the Sierra de Mesas, their centre covered by
the village of Soita, their left at Rendo, upon the river. There
had been frequent fighting during these three days without
heavy losses on either side, and there were many brilliant
instances of bravery and heroism in the actions at Carpio,
Elbodon, and Aldea Ponte. In consequence of the unreturned
fire at Elbodon, delivered by the infantry squares and the
Portuguese* artillery on the masses of French cavalry which
charged the British so frequently and so vehemently, under
Montbrun, the losses of the enemy were far greater than those
of the allies. The Fourteenth had Lieutenant Hall, 2 private
soldiers, and 5 horses wounded in the action at Carpio and the
subsequent movements ; and the conduct of the commanding
officer, Lieutenant -Colonel Felton Hervey, was commended
in public despatches, the excellent behaviour of Captain
Brotherton being also mentioned.1
Marmont's army being very short of provisions, he took
it back to the valley of the Tagus on the same day that the
allies took up their position behind Soita. It was either
during these movements or a day or two earlier at Espeja that
the memorable affair between the Fourteenth and the enemy's
Lancers took place. The 1410 and i6th Light Dragoons
with the German Hussars were in brigade together under
command of Count Arentschild of the German Hussars. The
enemy's Lancers ('The Polish Lancers'), a crack corps in
the French cavalry, were observed drawn up on some rising
ground, when Arentschild rode up to Lieutenant-Colonel
Hervey and said, ' Sir, you will charge them.' Two squadrons of
the Fourteenth immediately advanced to the attack, the Lancers
awaiting them on their own ground with lances 'advanced,'
1 Cannon's Historical Record of tht i+tk Light Dragoons, p. 35.
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thinking the Light Dragoons would never get inside them.
However, the Fourteenth charged, broke through their ranks,
and sabred more than 60 of them. It is said the Fourteenth
were offered lances as a compliment on their return after the
war, but refused them, giving as a reason what occurred on this
memorable occasion. It was always thought Count Arentschild
wanted to spare his 'pet' German Hussars, and so sent the
Fourteenth against the Lancers.
Napier mentions a fine chivalrous act which took place French
at one of the many cavalry encounters which occurred during c
these three days' fighting with the enemy at Carpio, Elbodon,
and Aldea Ponte : — ' A French officer, while striking at Felton
Hervey of the i4th Light Dragoons, perceived he had only
one arm, and with a rapid change brought down his sword
into a salute and passed on.'
In December of this year ( 1 8 1 1 ) a schoolmaster-sergeant Establishment,
was for the first time appointed to the regiment. There were uoop^o^es1"
some reductions made in the establishment, viz., the corporals rank and file-
were reduced from 50 to 40, the privates from 950 to 760,
and the troop-horses from 964 to 864.
On 4th June, Colonel S. Hawker had been promoted Major- Lieutenant-
General on the staff at home, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey Feit^niT
succeeded to the command of the Fourteenth, which he had Hervey-
virtually held since the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Talbot
a year previously. It was not till the year 1817 that Lieutenant-
Colonel Hervey's name appeared in the Army List as the
only Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, for in the Army
Lists up to and including the year 1816, Major- General
Hawker's name continued at the head of the regiment as
Lieutenant-Colonel, though holding the rank of Major-General.
During the winter the strength of the regiment on foreign Establishment
service was reduced from 8 to 6 troops. Accordingly, on
5th December 2 troops embarked at Lisbon for England,
where they arrived on the 8th January 1812, and having
disembarked at Portsmouth, joined the depot at Radipole
Barracks, Weymouth.
Napier says that after the combats about Guinaldo, the
on
service.
92 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1811
allied army was extensively cantoned on both sides of the
Coa.
Ciudad Rodrigo was distantly observed by the British, and
so closely by Julian Sanchez, that he actually captured the
governor, who had come out with too weak an escort, and
also took a large number of oxen. In consequence of this
the French army under Thiebault, coming from Salamanca
and Tamames, advanced when the Agueda was flooded, re-
victualled Ciudad Rodrigo, leaving a new governor there,
and returned on 2nd November before the waters had sub-
sided ; so that Wellington was unable to oppose him, the
only bridge available being at Ciudad Rodrigo, in possession
of the enemy.
Later in November the French made another advance under
Dorsenne. The British and allies then crossed the Agueda
near Zamara, whereupon the French retired, harassed in rear
by the guerillas under Carlos d'Espana and Julian Sanchez,
state of the After this, owing to want of supplies from the country
* between the Coa and Agueda, and the failure of the transport
promised by the Portuguese, Wellington was forced to spread
out his cavalry even as far as the Mondego and valley of the
Douro, or they would have been starved. At this time the
British army was not in good plight. The last reinforcements
received by Wellington consisted of infantry that had served
in the recent Walcheren expedition, who were so enfeebled
that exposure to night air or hardship at once threw them
into hospital by hundreds, whilst the recently arrived cavalry
regiments, being inexperienced and not acclimatised, were found,
both men and horses, so unfit for duty that they had to be sent
to the rear. Added to this, the pay of the army was three
months in arrear, the supplies were very scanty, half and
quarter rations were often served ; often there was no bread
for three days consecutively, and the men's clothing was so
patched that scarcely a regiment could be known by its
uniform. Chopped straw, the only forage, was very scarce ;
the regimental animals were dying of hunger ; corn was rarely
distributed save to the generals and staff, and even the
1812] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 93
horses of the artillery and the old cavalry suffered. The
cantonments about the Coa and Agueda were unhealthy from
the rains ; 20,000 men were in hospital, and only 54,000 men
of both nations, including garrisons and posts of communica-
tion, were under arms. But the change of position worked
wonders : the new cantonments gave abundance of supplies
and dry weather, for in Beira the first rains usually subside
in December, and the sickness stopped in consequence. At
this critical time the army was lucky in having such a capable
military secretary as Lord Fitzroy Somerset.1 It was now
that Wellington decided to besiege with vigour and then to
storm Ciudad Rodrigo on the first opportunity. He had
35,000 men available to do it with.
1812
Hitherto Ciudad Rodrigo had not been regularly invested, ciudad
but on the 8th January the redoubt of Francisco was stormed ££frifjj and
and taken by selected companies of the Light Division led by captured,
Colonel Colborne, 52nd Light Infantry, after which a regular
siege and investment took place, and by the igth two breaches
became practicable. The assault, after desperate fighting
and heavy losses, was successful. Lieutenant Gurwood,2
one of the first to enter, received the governor's sword at the
castle, though himself severely wounded in the head during the
fight in the streets. Three hundred French fell, 1500 were
made prisoners, 150 pieces of artillery were captured, and the
allies lost 1200 men and 90 officers in the siege. Generals
Craufurd and Mackinnon were killed. It was a desperate
affair : no less than 60 officers and 650 men were killed or
hurt at the breaches.3 After this gallant affair Lord Welling-
ton was created Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo by the Spaniards,
Earl of Wellington by the English, and Marquis of Torres
Vedras by the Portuguese. The siege had lasted only twelve
1 Afterwards General Lord Raglan. — (Napier, Book xvi. ch. 2.)
8 Lieutenant Gurwood, $2nd Regiment, led the forlorn hope.— (Napier.)
3 Napier, from whose History this account of the siege is taken.
94 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1812
days, during which time the weather had been intensely cold
with severe frosts, but from this time up to the end of February
violent and continuous rain fell in the Peninsula. Ciudad
Rodrigo was captured on the iQth January, and the garrison
marched out as prisoners of war.
On the 3Oth January, Captain Charles Massey Baker (after-
wards Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth), and on 26th March,
Captain T. W. Brother ton (afterwards General Sir T. W.
Brotherton, G.C. B.), became Majors in succession to the Hon.
C. Butler and J. Chapman. The cavalry had not taken any
active part in the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, but they were
at hand in its vicinity to carry out reconnoitring duties as re-
quired, and to be in readiness for any unforeseen emergency.
After the place fell into our hands the British army was
kept on the Coa for some time, and Lord Wellington's head-
quarters remained there till 5th March, by which time the main
body of his army was well on the way to the Alemtejo and
the vicinity of Badajos, Marmont's army being at Salamanca.
siege of The Fourteenth proceeded to Estremadura, and was stationed
March 1812. near Badajos when the siege of that fortress commenced. The
heavy rains which fell at the equinox considerably interfered
with military operations, and in consequence the commence-
ment of the siege was delayed till the 1 7th March.
The British headquarters were at Elvas by the nth, and
by the 1 5th pontoons were laid over the Guadiana river, and
the investment of Badajos was completed soon after. There
were several French armies hovering about : Soult was before
the Isla, but Drouet's division, 5000 strong, was at Villa
Franca, while Daricau, with a like force, was near Medellin ;
in consequence of which Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas
Graham1 was despatched with 3 divisions of infantry and
2 brigades of cavalry to march upon Llerena, by Valverde
and Santa Marta, and Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill
was sent upon Almendralejos, moving thither from Albu-
querque by Merida. The Fourteenth were with the covering
army under Sir Thomas Graham, and when the French
1 Afterwards General Lord Lynedoch, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
1812] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 95
army under Marshal Soult advanced, the British fell back
upon Albuhera. The regiment was employed in covering
this retrograde movement, and it had an encounter, whilst
skirmishing, with the enemy's advance-guard near Villa
Franca, which is mentioned below. Badajos was captured Capture of
by storm on the night of the 5th April, when the French fth^prii 1812.
relieving army fell back.
The Fourteenth were present at the siege of Badajos up to
the ist April, on which date they were relieved by the nth
Light Dragoons, and proceeded with the covering army under
Sir Thomas Graham. Whilst in front of Badajos, on 2Oth
March the garrison made a sortie, and two men of the Four-
teenth were wounded.
After the fall of Badajos the Earl of Wellington proceeded
to the north, but Lieutenant- General Sir Rowland Hill was
left in command of the army in Estremadura. The British
and Portuguese losses at Badajos were very heavy : it was a
desperately contested assault. Five thousand men and officers
fell in the siege, of whom, including 700 Portuguese, 3500
fell in the assault, 60 officers and more than 700 men being
slain on the spot.
It was a few days after the capture of Badajos that the Affair at
Fourteenth were engaged in an enterprise against several regi- viliF
ments of French cavalry. The regiments had moved on the |J^ April
night of the loth April from Villa Franca upon Usagre, and
afterwards along the road to Llerena. On the nth the Light
Brigade skirmished with the French, until the Heavy Brigade
turned their flank. The enemy was then charged, overthrown,
pursued, and many prisoners taken. On the night of the 1 2th
April a party of the Fourteenth, under Lieutenant Edward
Pellew, took a picquet of 22 French dragoons prisoners.
The regiment had upwards of 20 men and several horses
wounded in these affairs, and the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel
Hervey was commended in the despatch of the commander
of the cavalry, Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton, Bart.
The affair at Usagre was very skilfully managed by Sir
Stapleton Cotton. Napier says the advance-guard of the
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Light Brigade commenced the action ; the French fell back
before Le Marchant's Heavy Brigade could intercept them,
but as the heights skirting the Llerena road prevented them
from seeing Le Marchant, they again drew up in order of
battle behind the junction of the Benvenida road. The
numbers on each side were about 1900 sabres, and Cotton,
seizing an accidental advantage of ground, kept the enemy's
attention engaged with Ponsonby's (light brigade) squadrons,
while Le Marchant, secretly passing at the back of the heights,
sent the 5th Dragoon Guards against their flank, and the next
moment Ponsonby charged their front. They gave way, and
being pursued, lost several officers and 128 men prisoners,
and many were killed in the field. The loss of the British was
56 men and officers, 45 being of the 5th Dragoon Guards.
The French retreated on Drouet's infantry, then at Llerena, but
all now fell back behind the Guadalquivir. The French cavalry
general was Peyrezmont, belonging to Soult's army. From
Estremadura the Fourteenth marched towards the Agueda,
and after being some time in Portugal and on the frontiers of
Spain, formed the advance-guard of Sir Thomas Graham's
Salamanca in column in the march towards Salamanca, near which city it
skirmished with a body of the enemy on the i6th June, losing
i sergeant and i trumpeter killed on that occasion, 4 privates
and 5 horses of the regiment being wounded. The French
under Marshal Marmont retired beyond the Duero,1 and the
allies followed up to the banks of that river, where the i4th
Light Dragoons were formed in brigade with the ist German
Hussars, and took the outposts at Tordesillas. The general
advance of Wellington's army from the Agueda towards the
Tormes commenced about the middle of June, when the rains
ceased. His army numbered 24,000 men. He marched in
4 columns, and by the i7th June his army, now concen-
trated, occupied the mountain of San Christoval, 5 miles in
advance of the city of Salamanca. In the middle of July, on
the 1 5th and i6th, Marshal Marmont with his large army
1 Douro in Portugal, Duero in Spain.
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commenced offensive operations against the allies, and crossed
the river Duero at several points, so that Lord Wellington
found it advisable to take up a position at Canizal, on the
Guarena stream, where he united his centre and left, leaving
Sir S. Cotton with the right wing (composed of the Fourth and
Light Divisons and Anson's cavalry), on the Trabancos.
The French occupied Nava del Rey on the 1 7th, and on the
same day the Fourteenth and the ist German Hussars, who
had acted as rearguard and covered the retreat from Rueda
behind the Guarena, moved to Alaijos so as to cover the retro-
grade movement of the right wing also, and Anson's cavalry from
Castrejon. On the i8th some sharp skirmishing took place,
and the troops at Castrejon fell back behind the Guarena.
The Fourteenth had to retire from the plain near Alaijos
under a heavy fire, and moved to Castrillos.
When the French army came up to the opposite bank of
the Guarena, General Clausel sent a brigade of cavalry under
General Carier across, supported by a column of infantry,
with the intention of attacking the British left. On this
occasion Major-General Victor Baron Alten, commanding the
brigade, led the I4th Light Dragoons and the ist Hussars
of the King's German Legion against the French cavalry, and
some sharp encounters took place. Subsequently they charged
the enemy's infantry most successfully. General Carier was
taken prisoner, and the enemy was driven back. During this
engagement the 27th and 4Oth Regiments, supported by a
Portuguese brigade, broke the enemy's infantry by an im-
petuous bayonet charge after the Fourteenth and German
Hussars had repulsed the cavalry, and it was now that our
cavalry charged the broken infantry and sabred a number of
them, pursuing and making some prisoners. The Fourteenth Casualties at
lost 1 8 men and 20 horses killed; 34 men and 18 horses ^'jui'y '1812.
wounded, as well as the following officers :—
Captain Brotherton.
Lieutenant John Gwynne.
Lieutenant Francis Fowke.
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During the next three following days, the igth, 2Oth, and
2 ist July, the regiment was actively employed in the opera-
tions which ensued between the opposing armies, and they
had several skirmishes with the enemy.
Battle of On the 22nd July, at the battle of Salamanca, the Fourteenth
began at daybreak to skirmish with the French outposts, in
company with the ist German Hussars, acting as the advance-
guard of the 3rd Division of Wellington's army, and they
afterwards took their place in the line of battle. They were
subsequently engaged successfully with the 3rd Division in
its attack on the French left, when Major-General Victor
Baron Alten was wounded.1 The French commander, Marshal
Marmont, endeavoured by several changes of position to turn
our right, so as to gain the road leading to Ciudad Rodrigo.
These movements occupied many hours, and it was near three
o'clock in the afternoon when a report came to Wellington
that the French left was actually pointing towards that road,
and that it was rapidly moving away from the centre of the
French army. He instantly repaired to the high ground and
watched the movement intently for some time, and when at
length he was quite satisfied that their left wing was entirely
separated from their centre, he lost no time in taking ad-
vantage of such a flagrant fault in military tactics, and,
ordering his divisions forward, commenced the battle in real
earnest. The allies' position had to be suddenly reversed from
what it had previously been. In the first line as now con-
stituted were the 4th Division, with the 5th on their right,
Bradford's Portuguese on the right of the 5th Division, and
Le Marchant's heavy cavalry on their right. In the second
line were ranged the 6th and 7th Divisions, flanked on the
right by Anson's light cavalry. This second line was now
prolonged by the Spanish troops in the direction of the 3rd
Division, which, with D'Urban's Portuguese cavalry, having
1 The Fourteenth were in Alten's Brigade with the ist German Hussars. After
being shot in the thigh the Brigadier was able to rejoin his brigade at Madrid six
weeks later, and commanded it in the retreat to Salamanca and Portugal. Seep. 113.
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passed the Tormes river by the fords of Santa Marta, was
posted near Aldea Tejada, and so placed as to command
the main road leading to Ciudad Rodrigo. The allies' position
having thus been reversed to what it originally was, their
left now rested on the English Hermanito, their right on
Aldea Tejada ; the rear had become the front, and the interval
between the 3rd and 4th Divisions was quickly filled by a
simple counter-march, with Bradford's Portuguese infantry,
the Spaniards and the British cavalry, all massed about the
village of Las Torres.1 Marmont's arrangements occupied
several hours, he all the time masking his real intentions from
the British commander, who had almost ceased to watch him
until the false movement already alluded to was detected.
The 3rd Division was now reinforced by Arentschild's
German Hussars, which, with D'Urban's horsemen, closed the
extreme right at Aldea Tejada. A reserve, composed of the
Light Division, Pack's Portuguese, Bock's and Alten's cavalry,
remained in heavy masses on the highest ground behind
all. The 3rd Division, with its cavalry and 12 guns, was
ordered to advance and cross the enemy's line of march ; the
remainder of the first line, with the main body of the cavalry,
was directed to advance whenever the attack of the 3rd Division
was developed, while Pack's brigade was to assail the French
Hermanito,2 so soon as the left of the British line should pass it.
Marmont now used all his endeavours to hasten up his
troops who were still behind, and at the same time to delay
the progress of his left wing, and he was still hopeful of success
until he observed Pakenham with the 3rd Division coming
forward against his left ; and it was when he was hurrying
thither that he received a severe wound from an exploding
shell which rendered him completely hors de combat. This
contretemps had a serious effect upon the French troops,
owing to the confusion which ensued in the giving of orders.
1 Napier.
2 There were two rugged hills on the field of battle called the Hermanitos or
Arapiles. One was christened the ' English ' and the other ' Marmont's ' or the
' French Hermanito,'
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Bonnet assumed command, but he too was soon after
wounded, when Clausel succeeded him in the supreme com-
mand. It was about five o'clock when the 3rd Division fell
upon the French left, commanded by Maucune and Thomieres
(the latter was killed) ; and two of our batteries of artillery, most
skilfully posted on high ground, took them in flank. The
French fought with great bravery, but the 3rd Division drove
their opponents back in confusion upon the supporting columns.
It was just at this juncture the French cavalry assailed the
flank of the 3rd Division, and were most gallantly charged by
D'Urban's and Arentschild's horsemen, on which occasion the
Oporto regiment under Watson attacked a square of infantry
unsuccessfully and retired, leaving Watson wounded on the
ground.1 The Fourteenth were present with the 3rd Division
in this important attack, which led to the complete discomfiture
of the enemy's left ; and two squadrons under Lieutenant-
Colonel Hervey reinforced D'Urban's Portuguese Brigade, and
thus took an active part in the successful turning movement
which was effected. In the result, this repulse of the French
left flank contributed more than anything else to our glorious
victory at Salamanca, whereby the enemy was defeated with
great loss and driven from the field. Whilst this movement
had been going on, the 4th and 5th Divisions and Bradford's
Brigade were hotly engaged, but steadily gaining ground ; Le
Marchant's heavy cavalry, Anson's light cavalry, and Bull's
troop of artillery were advancing at a trot upon the left
of Pakenham's Division, whilst, as already related, on Paken-
ham's right D'Urban's cavalry had turned the disordered
masses of the enemy's left. Although not more than half an
hour had elapsed since the actual battle commenced, the
French were already losing ground, their left being in com-
plete confusion. They began to fire at random ; and when
the British cavalry charged forward, coming between the
interval of the 3rd and 5th Divisions, and then forming line,
Le Marchant's heavy horsemen and Anson's Light Brigade
1 Napier.
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were seen to break forth at full speed, and next moment
1 200 French infantry were trampled down by the charging
squadrons, who rode onwards, sabring hundreds of them with
their long straight swords. In this onslaught the cavalry
lost heavily, Le Marchant and many other officers fell ; Cotton
and his staff were still at their head and galloped on, though
opposed to a terrible fire ; and Lord Edward Somerset,
who persistently continued the charge at the head of one
squadron, captured five guns. The heavy cavalry met with
the greatest opposition and suffered in proportion. Anson's
Light Brigade had suffered little in the charge, so they still
pressed on, joined by D'Urban's horsemen, and, united with
the 3rd and 5th Divisions and the guns, engaged the enemy
with vigour. Meanwhile a fierce battle raged in the centre
also. There Clausel made a surprising effort. Our 4th Division
had driven back Bonnet's troops, who got mixed with the
disordered masses of Maucune's and Clausel's Divisions, now
retreating before Pakenham and the cavalry. The French
Hermanito was assailed, but unsuccessfully, by Pack's Portu-
guese about the time of Le Marchant's charge. Clausel,
when he assumed the command of the army, brought up
Percy's Division from Calvariza, and concentrated it in the
centre behind Bonnet's troops, who were still strongly fighting ;
he also brought towards the same point the light cavalry,
Boyer's dragoons, and the two divisions so long expected from
the forest. By these dispositions he presented a mass for
the broken left wing to rally upon, and he caused Sarrut's, Bren-
nier's, and Ferey's unbroken Divisions, supported by the whole
of the cavalry, to cover the line of retreat to Alba de Tormes,
while another division was in mass close behind Marmont's
Hermanito, and Foy remained still intact on the right.
Pack had failed to take the Hermanito with his Portuguese:
he was driven back by the French reserves hidden from view
behind the rocks on his front and left flank ; this was a very
critical moment in the battle. The men of the 4th Division
were also driven back from the southern ridge, and were
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menaced by Clausel's troops in rear and on their left, when
the gallant 4Oth Regiment,1 wheeling about, with a rough
charge cleared the rear, and thus saved that quarter. The
front of the 4th Division was, however, driven back, as
well as the front line of the 5th, which Dover's dragoons had
menaced. Cole had fallen, also Leith, both severely
wounded ; Beresford brought up some Portuguese troops,
but he fell desperately wounded ; and Boyer's dragoons now
charged with success, in consequence of Anson's cavalry
having been checked by a heavy fire of artillery. This was
the real crisis of the battle. Wellington now brought up the
6th Division from the second line, which made a well-sustained
and vehement charge, losing heavily ; Hulse's Brigade on the
left lost hundreds, the 6ist and nth Regiments being exposed
to a withering fire. The Fifty-third were disordered by an
impetuous charge of Boyer's dragoons and lost many men, but
bravely held their ground. The fighting still continued, and the
changing current of battle now turned for the British. Clausel,
however, skilfully protected a line of retreat by the roads leading
to the fords of Huerta and Encina, and the road leading to
Alba de Tormes. Thither, accordingly, the French army,
driven by the 3rd, 5th, and 6th Divisions, fell back in disorder.
Wellington assailed Foy's Division, which was covering the
retreat, with his Light Division and some cavalry, supported
by the ist Division and two brigades of the 4th Division, whilst
as a reserve he sent the Spaniards and the 7th Division.
The French retired by alternate wings in good order
before these troops, firing upon the Light Division from every
rise of ground, and this retrograde march continued for two
miles, but luckily, owing to the twilight which baffled the
French aim, our casualties were not large. Just before it
became dark, however, the 6th Division was involved in a
fight with Maucune's Division, and attacked a strong position,
when they lost heavily from the fire of the French guns ; but
eventually the enemy got completely under cover of the forest
1 Now the South Lancashire Regiment, ist Battalion.
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and were lost to view, when the battle came to an end, and the
French made good their retreat to Alba.
In this battle, Captain Brotherton of the I4th Light
Dragoons, who, when fighting on the i8th July at the Guarena
amongst the foremost, as he was always wont to do,1 had a
sword thrust through his side ; yet he was again on horse-
back on the 22nd, and being denied leave to remain in that
condition with his own regiment, secretely joined Pack's
Portuguese in an undress, and was again hurt in the un-
fortunate charge at the Hermanito.
The casualties of the Fourteenth were not great at
Salamanca — they had 4 men killed, and 6 men and 7 horses
wounded.
After the battle Clausel passed the Tormes by the narrow
bridge of Alba and the fords below it, and at daylight was in
full retreat upon Penaranda. Wellington, having brought up
his German dragoons and Anson's cavalry, also crossed the
river with his left wing at daylight, and came upon the rear
of the French army near the Almar, a small river at the foot
of a height near the village of La Serna. The cavalry pur-
sued and attacked some squares of infantry, whom they took
by surprise, and gained a success, but lost a hundred of their
number killed by the fire of the French muskets.
The Light Division also came up and pursued to Nava de
Setroval, near which place such large bodies of the French
cavalry covered the rear of the army, that the allied
cavalry, who were reduced in numbers and fatigued with
fighting and marching, did not make any further attack,
and the French made good their retreat in the direction of
Flores de Avila and Arevalo. The Fourteenth were in the
pursuit on 23rd July, when two squadrons of the regiment Penaranda,
had a sharp engagement and took several prisoners near23rd^uly I8l2>
Penaranda.
The total losses of the allies at Salamanca and in the Casualties at
operations before and after the battle amounted to — lca>
1 Napier, vol. iv. p. 275.
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i F ield- Marshal ; 4 Generals; and nearly 6000 officers
and men killed and wounded.1
The losses of the opposing French army during the same
period, i8th to 3Oth July, were : —
i Marshal; 7 Generals; and 12,500 men and officers
killed, wounded, and taken.
The French also lost two eagles, several standards, twelve
guns, and eight carriages.2 It was on the i8th July that
Marmont's army crossed the Duero in its advance, and on
the 3Oth it recrossed that river in retreat, and finally had
to retreat to Burgos, when the allies took possession of
Valladolid.
For its gallant bearing at Salamanca the Fourteenth re-
ceived the royal authority in 1820 to bear the word ' Sala-
manca' on its guidons and appointments, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart, received a gold medal in
recognition of his services, and as a mark of royal favour
and approbation.
Gallant exploit It was on the 26th July that a patrol of 3 dragoons of the
HanK™1 Fourteenth, and 4 men of the German Hussars, under Corporal
patrol, William Hanley of the I4th Light Dragoons, detached to
26th July 1812. _. _ . 3 . r n - - c
Blasco bancho, captured a party of the enemy, consisting 01
2 officers, i sergeant, i corporal, and 27 mounted dragoons,
with i private servant and 2 mules with baggage, when they
had been sent forward to observe the movements of the enemy.
Corporal Hanley and his gallant patrol were most highly com-
plimented by the Commander of the Forces, who himself,
through Lieutenant- Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart., at
Madrid, presented a pecuniary reward for the men of the
patrol, and Corporal Hanley afterwards received a special
1 The British lost i General killed — Le Marchant ; 5 Generals wounded — Beres-
ford, Cole, Leith, Cotton, and Alten.
The French lost, killed, 3 Generals of Brigade — Thomieres, Farey, and Desgra-
viers ; wounded, Marmont and Bonnet, severely, and Clausel, slightly.
The French Marshal Marmont had with him 44,000 men. He was joined on
8th July by Bonnet from the Asturias, and later by King Joseph from Madrid.
2 The account of the battle of Salamanca is mostly taken from Napier.
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medal for his gallantry. The French horses were given to the
Fourteenth and the German Hussars to complete deficiencies.
The men captured by Hanley's patrol had really been left
there by King Joseph of Spain, who had quitted Madrid on
2ist July, and was at Blasco Sancho on the 24th, and thence
made a forced march to Espinar.
The following extract from Tancred's Historical Record of
Medals has reference to Corporal Hanley's medal : —
'Corporal William Hanley, i4th Light Dragoons, was
presented by the officers of his regiment with a silver medal at
a full dress parade, as an honourable testimony and to com-
memorate a brave action. The medal bears on
Obverse (within a wreath) —
" Fortitudine Blasco Sancho, 26th July 1812. Peninsula."
Reverse (within a wreath)—
" William Hanley, Corporal, i4th Light Dragoons."
(This medal was in the late Stewart Mackenzie's collection,
but is now in that of Major-General the Hon. Herbert Eaton,
late Grenadier Guards.)
General Brotherton relates some interesting episodes con-
cerning events which happened at Salamanca, both before and
after the battle, as follows : —
' The river called Douro in Portugal, is called Duero in Fording the
Spain. When, in the summer of 1812, Lord Wellington and D
Marshal Marmont were manoeuvring against each other on the
banks of this river, towards Tordesillas, the river being much
swollen by rains, it became essential, but very difficult to ascer-
tain the fords, in order for one party or the other to know
where to cross, either to attack or defend the passage. As the
picquets of the respective armies were placed close to the
banks, it was a ticklish thing to attempt the trial of any ford.
I was determined, however, to attempt it, and had recourse to
a little ruse in order to accomplish it. I rode out one evening
late, with my orderly dragoon behind me, to the border of the
river on the left bank, on which side the British army was
then posted, and immediately opposite to a French picquet.
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I crossed the river and found out the ford. The French
picquet looked on most composedly, thinking, no doubt, that
myself and my orderly were deserters, and when we reached
the opposite bank the French officer came up to me, and asked
what we were and what we wanted. He advanced about
fifty yards from his picquet, which was drawn out. I saw that
it was necessary to get out of the scrape by stratagem, and I
gave him some vague reply, upon which he seized hold of my
bridle, perceiving that he had been humbugged by allowing me
to cross the ford. I immediately drew my pistol, cocked it,
and might have shot him dead, but did not like to commit such
an act in cold blood. He staggered back and ran to his
picquet, which he ordered to fire. I had to dash into the river
again, and in the hurry mistook the direction of the ford, and
had to swim back across, during which time, the river being
broad, myself and orderly had to undergo a very sharp fire of
musketry. The trumpeter was shot through the body, and
kept howling aloud till we reached the opposite shore. Thus
I succeeded, though at no little risk, to ascertain what it would
have cost the lives of many men to have ascertained by force,
and I believe I got some credit for this act.
single combat. ' The first time we entered Salamanca I was command-
ing the advanced guard, and we gave a " View halloo " when
we came within sight of the town which so astonished the
French skirmishers with whom we were engaged that they
took it for the " Hurrah " of a charge, and went back rapidly.
I had an encounter, in single combat, this day with a very
young French officer, between the two lines of skirmishers,
French and English, who stood still, by mutual consent, to
witness it. The French officer showed great cunning and
skill, seeing the superiority of my horse, for he remained
stationary to receive me, and allowed me to ride round and
round him, whilst he remained on the defensive. He made
several cuts at the head of my horse, and succeeded in cutting
one of my reins and the forefinger of my bridle-hand, which
was, however, saved by the thick glove I wore, though the
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finger was cut very deeply to the joint. As my antagonist
was making the last cut at me, I had the opportunity of making
a thrust at his body which staggered him, and he made off.
I thought I had but slightly wounded him, but I found, on
inquiry the next day, when sent on a flag of truce, that the
thrust had proved mortal, having entered the pit of his stomach.
I felt deeply on this occasion and was much annoyed, as I
had admired the chivalrous and noble bearing of this young
officer. He was a mere youth, who, I suppose, thought it
necessary to make this display as a first essay, as French
officers usually do on their first appearance in the field, and
indeed, I believe it is expected of them by their comrades. I
shall never forget his good-humoured, fine countenance during
the whole time we were engaged in this single combat, talking
cheerfully and politely to me, as if we were exchanging civilities
instead of sabre-cuts. There was a singular coincidence this
day. We, the \^th Light Dragoons -, wore an orange facing,
and the French regiment to which we were opposed proved to
be the i^th French Chasseurs, and also wore an orange facing.
The cut I received on the forefinger of my bridle-hand proved
a great grievance for some time, as it prevented me from
playing the violin for weeks — a great deprivation, as I always
played in bivouac at night.
' Early in the morning we found ourselves (that is General i8thjuiyi8i2,
Alten's brigade, composed of the i4th Light Dragoons and ist
Hanoverian Hussars) in presence of a very superior force of
the enemy's cavalry, with whom we commenced skirmishing,
and who drove us back across the Guarena stream, a small
river with steep banks. When we had crossed this stream
with the whole brigade, we formed and waited till the enemy
had crossed also, and then attacked him in "succession of
squadrons from the right." The two first squadrons that
charged failed to make an impression on the enemy, and were
repulsed. In leading the third squadron to the charge (which
was mine), I was run through the body, from the right side
to the navel, about six inches. When the point of the sword
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came out, and as I staggered and fell, my antagonist, instead
of withdrawing his sword from my body altogether, drew it up
a little and then made another thrust, which went into the
cavity of my chest. I was then led off the field faint and sick,
and I well remember one of my best old soldiers offering his
assistance. He was wounded also, but said " it was nothing,
only a little stab in the stomach."
' Such, however, is the mortal nature of wounds with the
point (the regiment we had charged was a heavy cavalry one
with straight swords), that the poor fellow, as he was leading
me off the field, suddenly staggered, vomited blood, and fell
down dead. I must mention that I received my wound
in the act of uplifting my arm and making a cut at the
head of my antagonist, on his near side. He wore a brass
helmet, and the blade of my sabre broke in two on it, which
left me quite at his mercy. I forgot to mention that, in the
early part of this eventful day to me, the enemy cannonaded us
when we were formed in line, and the mare I rode, a most
valuable one, a pure Arabian of the highest caste, and known
to the whole army for her great beauty, had her thigh shattered
by a shell which fell close to me and burst. I immediately
dismounted one of the troop-sergeant-majors and took his
horse, sending him to the rear. She was at first considered so
desperately wounded that I was advised, and was on the point
of shooting her, but she afterwards miraculously recovered,
and I was taken prisoner on her on the I3th December 1813,
when her head was cut open.
Battle of ' I was bled twice, profusely, during the night, as the effects
Salamanca. Qf inflammation were apprehended, these sort of wounds never
bleeding much of themselves. I was, of course, much weakened,
but determined not to lose the glorious battle of Salamanca,
which took place on the 22nd instant. I got on my horse,
having slept in the town of Salamanca on the previous night,
and I joined my regiment (in the field), which I found on the
point of being engaged. I remained with it only a short time,
as Colonel Hervey threatened to put me under arrest if I did
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not quit the field immediately, conceiving I was not in a fit
state to remain. I left the regiment. It was, however, im-
possible to quit such a field at such a moment, and I repaired
to the Arapiles hill, of which we then had possession, the
enemy occupying the other immediately in front of it.
' General Packe's brigade being ordered to attack the latter,
and perceiving one of the Portuguese regiments giving way, I
could not resist the temptation of attempting to rally them, and
rode down to the valley for that purpose, but my horse was
shot under me, and in the very weak state I was in, I felt very
unequal to further exertion. Still, it was impossible to leave
such a field at such a moment, and I remained to the last, having
joined in the very last attack made by the 6th Division on the
rocky heights to which the French had retired before they
entirely gave way, and retreated. This was late in the evening,
and quite dark. I returned to Salamanca that night, where I
slept, but started early next morning, looking like a ghost, and
overtook the army pursuing the enemy. I was, however,
obliged to lie down and rest every quarter of an hour. When
I reached my regiment Colonel Hervey again remonstrated
against my remaining with it, but my wound beginning to
suppurate and do well, the surgeon said there was no risk, and
I remained. We marched to Madrid, driving the enemy before
us, and entered this romantic place amidst such enthusiasm on
the part of the inhabitants, that it was more like a tale in the
Arabian Nights than reality.'
At the battle of Salamanca only two generals in the field Young
were more than forty — the Duke himself and another.
' During the war in the Spanish Peninsula, in 1812, a patrol corporal
of four men of the i4th Light Dragoons (now the I4th Hussars),
and four men of the ist German Hussars, under a man whose
name was Hanley, and whose rank I will tell you by and by,
entered a village which some French soldiers they were watching
had left shortly before. The patrol rode through the village,
and on arriving at the further end saw three French dragoons
returning from foraging, and making for a house standing by
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itself in the plain. Galloping after them, the patrol took them
prisoners and then rode towards the house. From each end of
the house ran a rather high wall forming a courtyard, with a
stable in rear, but the only entrance was through the door of
the house, and a narrow passage. The door was closed, but
was opened by firing into the lock. Inside were French
dragoons feeding their horses and preparing them for night.
' Hanley made his men fire quickly down the passage so as
to make the French believe his party was numerous. At this
moment the French officer in command of the post suddenly
fired at Hanley, through a window on the ground floor, but
when Hanley was about to return the compliment, the French-
man surrendered. He was made to give up his sword and
pistol, and as the only way out of the room was into the
passage, he would have been sure to be killed had he tried
to escape. One of the Germans of the patrol, who could talk
French, was then sent with the French officer into the court to
tell the French that they had better surrender, because the
English cavalry brigade was coming, and unless they sur-
rendered at once the thatched roof would be set on fire, and
all in the place burnt to death. After a few minutes, the
French officer and the German hussar returned, saying the
men agreed to surrender. The prisoners were ordered to leave
their sabres in the courtyard, and come out one by one through
the narrow passage, leading their horses. The passage was
only broad enough for one man at a time. As each came out
his carbine was taken from him, the stock broken and the
pieces thrown away. One by one they came out, twenty-seven
in all. Imagine their disgust when they found only nine English
and German soldiers outside! They were made to mount their
horses and cross their stirrups, then they marched off in fours,
three of the escort on one side, four on the other, and Hanley
and one trooper bringing up the rear, the French officer riding
alongside Hanley, who held his reins for him. This party had
just left the house, when up came from some French troops on
their march to this place a French lieutenant-colonel. He had
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seen the party from a distance, and thought they were English
prisoners. Slapping Hanley on the shoulder as he passed him,
he called out, "Good-day, Englishman," but before he knew
where he was Hanley had whipped the Frenchman's sword out
of its scabbard and made him prisoner. Then came up the
colonel's orderly with a couple of mules with the colonel's
baggage, and they all had to join the party, which after a march
of some dozen miles rejoined the brigade.'
The march of the army to Madrid now took place, the i4th Advance on
Light Dragoons being in brigade with the ist German Hussars August '1812.
(Hanoverians). The Marquis of Wellington himself entered
Madrid on the I2th August, but the Fourteenth passed Segovia
in Old Castile and bivouacked near Escurial, which is 26
miles north-west of the Spanish capital, where there is the
magnificent palace built by Philip n. and used as a monastery.
The headquarters of the regiment were established at Getafe,
and the men were employed in outpost duty. Lieutenant Cust
commanded a post of observation at Consingia, in La Mancha,
and Lieutenant Ward was with a post of communication between
that place and Madrid.
When the Marquis of Wellington left Madrid for the siege Retirement
of Burgos, the regiment remained on for some time in the October*!?^,
vicinity of the capital ; but about the 24th of October, when,
owing to a concentration of the French armies under King
Joseph, Soult, and other marshals, the siege of Burgos was
raised and a retiring movement forced upon the allies, the
1 4th Light Dragoons with the ist German Hussars assembled
at Guadalaxara, fell back on Madrid, and formed part of the
rearguard of Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's Corps
from thence to Alba de Tormes. For several days the Four-
teenth were constantly engaged in manoeuvring and skirmish-
ing to retard the advance of the enemy. The French moved
upon Arevalo, Fontiveros, and thence to Alba de Tormes.
Wellington coming from Burgos reached San Christoval, near
Salamanca, on the 6th November.
At this time the king and his marshals had an army of
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90,000 combatants on the Tormes, mostly veteran troops, of
whom 12,000 nearly were cavalry, and they had 120 guns.
Wellington had 68,000 combatants, and 70 guns. On the i4th
November the French crossed the Tormes and took post at
Mozarbes. The next day Wellington began his retirement
Retreat from towards Portugal on Ciudad Rodrigo, finding the French were
iSth^Snber too strong for him. He moved away in three columns across
the Junguen,1 and then, covering his left flank with his cavalry
and guns, defiled in order of battle before the enemy at little
more than cannon-shot. Owing to a thick fog and heavy rain
which was all in his favour, having possession of the high
roads, while the enemy had only the fields and by-ways, he
was enabled to bring his whole army in one mass quite round
the French left, and gained the Valmusa river. This dangerous
movement was rendered necessary owing to the time that had
been lost by the allies whilst they waited on the Arapiles at
Salamanca, and thus allowed the French under Soult to cross
the Tormes and turn their position.
On the 1 6th the allies retired by the three roads which led
across the Matilla stream through Tamames, San Munos, and
Martin del Rio, the Light Division and cavalry closing the rear.
The 1 4th Light Dragoons, as before, still took part in the
picquets and other duties of the rearguard, all through this
retirement of the allies from Salamanca to Ciudad Rodrigo ;
and until the army went into cantonments behind the Agueda,
they continued to perform them. The surrounding country was
one huge forest filled with vast herds of swine. For two days
the number of our stragglers was enormous, for the hungry
soldiers, who were very short of rations and supplies, broke away
by hundreds from their colours to shoot the wild pig, and the
forests resounded with the roll of musketry as if the enemy
were attacking. Lord Wellington took stringent measures to
enforce discipline, and had two men hanged, but even so the
soldiers did not desist, and in consequence there were no less
than 2000 stragglers of Wellington's army taken by the enemy.
1 A rivulet running into the Tormes opposite Salamanca.
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On the 1 6th November, when near Matilla, the French
Lancers pressed our rearguard hotly, but were checked by the [f£.Woirai
light companies of the 28th Regiment, and were afterwards
gallantly charged and driven back by the I4th Light Dragoons
under Lieutenant- Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart., who again
distinguished himself and was nearly made a prisoner, the
enemy being in very superior numbers. The Fourteenth lost casualties at
i corporal and 2 horses killed ; i man wounded and i taken Matllla-
prisoner.
On the 1 7th, a large body of the French cavalry1 surprised
the picquets in front of the Light Division. The division was
immediately formed in columns : a squadron of the Fourteenth
and one of the German Hussars came hastily up from the rear,
Julian Sanchez's cavalry, in small parties, formed on the right
flank, and all precautions were observed to secure the retreat.
This checked the enemy from making an attack, but his
squadrons rode up near the flanks of our retreating infantry,
and a good deal of baggage was taken and several men killed
and wounded, nor did the enemy desist till finally driven
off by our artillery. The French succeeded in taking General
Paget prisoner as he was riding in the midst of his own men,
concerning which Napier remarks that it might have been
Wellington who was captured, for he also was continually
riding between the columns and without an escort.
Soon after this the main body passed the Huebra, where
the Light Division was assailed again by Soult's troops, but
effected its passage with small loss. On the i8th, after a long
and tiring march, Wellington reached Tamames, and next day
Rodrigo and the neighbouring villages were occupied. This
retreat beginning at Burgos had cost the allies a large number
of men in killed, wounded, stragglers, and missing, besides
prisoners captured by the enemy, as well as a large quantity of
looted baggage. Victor Alten's Brigade of Cavalry, in which
were the Fourteenth and the ist and 2nd German Hussars,
was attached to the Light Division and remained behind the
1 Seventeen squadrons.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1812
Retreat from
Madrid.
Pig Shooting.
Agueda, Captain Badcock being detached with a reconnoitring
party from the regiment to the Sierra de Francia and river
Alagon.1 The remainder of the British cavalry occupied the
valley of the Mondego.2
On the 1 4th May, Mr. Charles M'Carthy became Quarter-
master of the regiment vice Jameson. Quartermaster M'Carthy
was afterwards, on the nth March 1813, promoted to be
Cornet, and subsequently, in May 1814, he became Lieutenant
and Adjutant.
The following incidents, mentioned by General Brotherton,
refer to the occasion of the retreat from Madrid, when the i4th
Light Dragoons formed the rearguard of General Hill's force: —
' On our retreat from Madrid, the first day we reached a large
village called Valdemoro, famous for good wine and extensive
wine-vaults. Of course our men on arriving broke into these
vaults and got drunk. The French, who were closely following
us, followed their example, and found numbers of our drunken
soldiers in the vaults, a large number stretched insensibly drunk.
However, instead of fighting each other, they fraternised and
embraced. / was sent back to this village by Lord Hill to try
and get our men out of it. The scene I beheld in these vaults
beggars all description, and it was, moreover, a service of
danger to go amongst this motley and drunken crew of both
nations, and I wonder I escaped. After almost fruitless en-
deavours I succeeded in bringing away but very few of these
drunken brutes.
' A remarkable circumstance, which gave rise to much dis-
pleasure from Lord Wellington, though a trivial one, if not a
ludicrous one, happened on the first night of our retreat from
Salamanca. The army was left totally without rations of any
sort, and almost starving, owing to neglect in the commissariat
department. The forest in which we were bivouacked abounded
in large herds of pigs, amounting to many thousands — tempting
1 The Alagon joins the Tagus above Alcantara.
2 A large portion of the narrative of the Peninsular War in this Record has
been taken from Napier's History almost verbatim, and many details are also taken
from Cannon's Historical Record of the \4,th Light Dragoons.
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objects to a starving army. Many of these droves passed
along the front of our army as if saying, " Come, kill me." No
wonder that volley after volley were let fly at them, laying
thousands prostrate. This, of course, when so close to the
enemy as we were, our vedettes almost touching each other,
was a dreadful irregularity. Lord Wellington roused out of
his sleep and rode immediately to the front, thinking the enemy
were attacking. His indignation on finding the cause of alarm
was excessive, and the consequence was that he, next day,
issued a most severe censure. The pork, I well recollect, was
most delicious, hunger being the sauce, besides which these
pigs feed on nothing but acorns and chestnuts, which abound
in these forests. The scene in front of the line was a most
extraordinary one. As the night had been very dark when
these droves of pigs rushed past the front, the men fired their
volleys at random, and many in front, particularly the cavalry,
suffered. I myself saw two heavy dragoons and one horse
lying dead. I shall never forget the singularity of the scene
at dawn of day, close to the bivouac of the i4th Light
Dragoons, and near where Lord Wellington himself had
bivouacked, surrounded as it was by dead pigs strewed on
the ground, dead dragoons, dead horses, etc. etc. !
' I went out one morning, very early, during the disastrous Flag of Truce,
retreat from Salamanca to Ciudad Rodrigo, en parlementaire>
to inquire at the French outposts as to the fate of a gallant
fellow who was orderly dragoon to Colonel Hervey, who,
the night before, going his rounds with this orderly, went by
mistake (the night being very dark and the enemy's picquets
and ours very close together) up to a French picquet, and
finding his mistake galloped off; but his gallant orderly, in
order to save him from his pursuers — he, Colonel Hervey,
having only one arm — sacrificed himself and kept sabring with
the enemy to give time to Colonel Hervey to escape, which he
did, though with difficulty. The orderly did not rejoin him, and
we were anxious next morning to ascertain his fate, and know
whether he was dead or alive. Accordingly, I proceeded early in
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the morning, accompanied by a trumpeter, towards the enemy's
outposts. I found the enemy advancing, with skirmishers
extended. I turned round to the trumpeter and told him to
sound something to show I was a flag of truce. He thought-
lessly sounded the "charge," upon which (it being a forest and
a foggy morning) the enemy imagined we were advancing in
force and precipitately retired. I kept following them to
endeavour to undeceive them, and at last they halted ; and
when I came up to the officer he seemed rather ashamed and
vexed at what had happened. I shall never forget the figure
he was. It was a very wet morning, and we had bivouacked
without any shelter. He wore nankeen trousers. The French
officers are not very particular about dress. To the sorrow of
the whole regiment I found the gallant fellow (Sergeant Puss,
a picked man) had perished in his noble struggle to save his
colonel, having been cut to pieces. In reference to the above,
the trumpeter with me was a German, and consequently, not
attached to us by any feeling. Whilst I was talking to the
French officer he galloped off towards the French lines,
evidently with the intention of deserting, for the great tempta-
tion to do so was that deserters were allowed to sell the horses
on which they deserted.
' The French officer, a chivalrous fellow, was indignant at
the infamous conduct of the trumpeter, and immediately sent
one of his men in pursuit of him, to bring him back and deliver
him up to me for punishment ; but as I knew he must have been
hanged if I took him back to camp, I declined to receive him.
The German and other foreign soldiers were not to be trusted
always, as they changed sides as suited their convenience, at
the risk of being hanged, either by the French or ourselves.
Equine ' When the i4th Light Dragoons were cantoned in Portugal
in 1812 at Fundao, a large proportion of the troop-horses were
turned out to grass more than five miles from the town.
They had previously been groomed and fed every day at
particular hours in the great square. The day after they were
turned out they all came galloping in at the accustomed hour
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of feeding, and placed themselves in the square as if they had
been led there ! '
1813
After passing the winter in cantonments among the Portu-
guese peasantry, the Fourteenth once more crossed the confines
of that kingdom and formed part of the centre column of the
allied army in the general advance which commenced in May.
Wellington had with him 70,0x30 men and 90 pieces of artillery.
The French armies scattered through Spain numbered pro-
bably not more than 160,000 men altogether, but of these there
were probably not more than 1 10,000 in the united armies
opposed to Wellington. During the advance the allies were at
first divided into three parts, and the Fourteenth entered Spain
in the advance-guard of the centre column, arriving at Salamanca
on 26th May, when the bridge and streets were found barri-
caded,1 and a force under General Villates was formed on
the heights above the ford of Santa Marta, consisting of a
division of French infantry, 3 squadrons of cavalry, and some
artillery. A British brigade passed the river at the ford, and
the Fourteenth, with the ist German Hussars, in brigade
under Major-General Baron Victor Alten, removed the barri-
cades and pushed through the town. The enemy fell back,
but was overtaken, and lost about 200 men killed and wounded,
as well as 200 prisoners. The line of the Tormes was thus
gained, and that of the Duero soon afterwards, so that the
allied army now firmly advanced and speedily passed the
Carrion and the Pisuerga. During these movements the
Fourteenth formed, as usual, part of the advance-guard of
the army, and was engaged on i2th June near Burgos, where Engagement
the Light Division, Grant's Hussar Brigade, and Ponsonby's
Brigade of Dragoons turned the French right, while the rest
of the troops attacked the whole range of heights extending
from Hormillas to Estepar, held by the French under Reille,
Cannon's Record, p. 41.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1813
Casualties.
Passage of
who barred the way to Burgos. Reille began to fall back
for the bridge of Baniel on the Arlanzon,1 but during this
movement Gardiner's Horse Artillery raked his columns, and
Captain Milles of the Fourteenth, at the head of a squadron,
charged and took several prisoners and a gun. The Four-
teenth lost i man and i horse killed, i man and 5 horses
wounded. After this the French destroyed Burgos castle,
and fell back with tumult and confusion behind the Ebro, the
British following up towards the sources of that river, and
marching through a wild and beautiful district completely
turned the enemy's position, cutting him entirely off from
the sea-coast. On the i5th June the Fourteenth, being in
advance, crossed the Ebro at the bridge of Frias,2 and a patrol
fell in with a body of the enemy near Pancorba.
The French under King Joseph and Marshal Jourdain
were concentrated in front of Vittoria. Wellington had only
60,000 Anglo- Portuguese sabres and bayonets with him, the
6th Division, 6500 strong, being left at Medina de Pomar.
The Spanish auxiliaries were above 20,000. The approximate
number of the French was about 60,000, but in the number
and size of their guns they had the advantage. The enemy
had many thousand carriages and impediments of all kinds
heaped about Vittoria, which blocked all the roads and created
confusion among the artillery parks.3 On the 2oth June the
Marquis of Wellington examined the position taken up by
the French army, and that day the Fourteenth skirmished
with the enemy near the village of Huarte. The troops under
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, amongst whom were
the Fourteenth, in the battle of Vittoria on 2ist June, were told
2ist°jun'e 1813. °ff to attack the enemy's left. They consisted of 20,000 men,
composed of Morillo's Spaniards, Silveira's Portuguese, and
the 2nd British Division, with cavalry and guns. The scene of
the battlefield was a very rugged country on the banks of the
Zadora and Bayas rivers, and there were no less than seven
bridges within the area of operations.
1 Napier, vol. v. p. 108. 2 Cannon's Record. 3 Napier.
Battle of
°'
At daybreak on the 2 ist June, the weather being rainy with a
thick vapour, the troops moved from their camps on the Bayas,
and the centre of the army advancing in columns passed the
ridges in front, and slowly approached the Zadora. The left
column pointed to Mendoza, the right column skirted the
Morillas ridge, on the other side of which Hill's Corps was
marching, and the latter General seized the village of Puebla
about 10 o'clock. Hill having crossed the mountains, where
he was vigorously opposed by the enemy under Gazan and
Villate, won the village of Subijana de Alava on the other side,
and eventually outflanked the enemy's left late in the afternoon.
At first the Fourteenth supported the attacks of the infantry
and artillery, and later in the day were detached to help in the
successful turning movements on the left flank of the French.
Graham led the attack on the French right, while Wellington
himself, at a time when he observed the French central
positions somewhat denuded of troops, brought up Picton's
3rd Division against the weakened positions with crushing
effect, and after a long and fiercely contested battle, which
lasted till past 6 o'clock in the evening, the French army
was completely routed and driven in confusion off the field.1
Napier says : ' Never was a victory more complete. The trophies
were innumerable. The French carried off but two pieces
of artillery from the battle (and one of these was afterwards
taken at Pampeluna). Jourdain's baton of command, a stand
of colours, 143 brass pieces, all the parks and dep6ts from
Madrid, Valladolid, and Burgos, carriages, ammunition, trea-
sure of enormous value — everything fell into the hands of the
victors.' The loss of men was about 6000 on the French
side and 5000 on the side of the allies. The plunder and spoil
was immense, chiefly carried off by the followers and non-
combatants. In the evening the Fourteenth, serving in Victor
Alten's Brigade,2 were employed in the pursuit of the wreck of
1 Napier.
2 At Vittoria, Victor Alten's Brigade consisted of the I4th Light Dragoons, as
well as the ist and 2nd regiments of Hussars of the King's German Legion.
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Pursuit the French army along the Pampeluna road, following the direc-
paTnpehma. tion taken by King Joseph, who had continued his retreat up the
Borundia and Avaquil valleys all night, and they passed the
whole of the enemy's baggage, which had been abandoned in
the flight. On the 24th they came up with the French rear-
guard at a pass two leagues from Pampeluna, when the leading
Major Brother- squadron of the regiment under Major Brotherton charged and
tumbrihUresa captured a tumbril. In this pursuit the Fourteenth were sup-
ported by Colonel Ross's Light Artillery troops. The main
body of the French army now retreated into France by the
valley of Roncesvalles, pursued by the British.
This battle of Vittoria was the crowning victory of the war
in the Peninsula. The actual scene of the battle was on ground
quite unsuitable for cavalry movements, but the Fourteenth
and other cavalry during several days afterwards took a very
pursuit across active part in the pursuit of the enemy right into the Pyrenees.
The rain for two days following the battle was most vehement
and incessant, and as the Pampeluna road was swampy and
much blocked, and the fugitive enemy set fire to the villages
behind them, the pursuit was necessarily very difficult. On the
28th June, Lieutenant Ward, with a patrol of 3 men of the
Fourteenth, got as far as the village of Ostiz, where he found
25 French foot-soldiers regularly armed and formed up at the
village, but these surrendered themselves prisoners of war.
Another patrol of the Fourteenth, consisting of 6 men under
Lieutenant Clavering, penetrated still further into the moun-
tains, and encountered on the ist July a body of infantry of the
French rearguard, on the road leading from Roncesvalles to
St. Jean-Pied-de-Port, in the Basses Pyrenees. This patrol
dispersed the enemy and took 18 of them prisoners.
'The ? It was probably in this pursuit, commenced on the evening
of the victory at Vittoria, along the Pampeluna road, that the
Fourteenth earned a title to that elegant and historical piece of
silver plate known as ' The Emperor,' which has so long adorned
the officers' mess. It was the property of His Majesty Joseph
Buonaparte, King of Spain, and the royal arms are still dis-
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cernible upon it. ' The Emperor,' in the piping times of peace,
is seldom seen except when filled to the brim with the choicest
brands of champagne, and in this condition it has passed through
successive generations of the regiment, and done duty as a
loving-cup in the officers' mess on many festive occasions.
For its gallant bearing at Vittoria the Fourteenth were sub-
sequently (in 1820) rewarded with the royal authority to bear
the word ' Vittoria ' on their regimental guidons and appoint- appointments
° . . . & rr of regiment
ments,and an additional honorary distinction was conferred on the (1820).
commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel SirF. B. Hervey, Bart.
The following anecdotes are related by General Brotherton
regarding the advance to Burgos and the battle of Vittoria : —
'On the advance of the army to Burgos we had been ' charge extra-
engaged the whole day with the enemy, and my charger was OI
quite worn out with fatigue towards night. A few days before,
I had received from England a young horse, quite unbroke
and wild. The enemy having unexpectedly advanced again
late in the evening, after we had retired to our camp, thinking
the work quite over for that day, on the " alert" being given
(my charger being too much knocked up) I jumped on the
young horse, who had only a snafHe-bridle on, not thinking
there would be much to do. However, we had a stiff struggle
with the enemy to drive him back, in which, charging at the
head of my squadron, this said young horse ran away with me,
and was taking me right into the French squadron opposed
to us, when at the distance of thirty or forty yards, I threw
myself off, to escape being carried into the ranks of the enemy.
The few men who were following me dragged me away, as I
clung to their stirrups. In the meantime my horse proceeded
straight forward, and literally dashed through the centre of
the French squadron, where I need not say he was secured,
and proved a most acceptable acquisition, being a remarkably
fine, valuable young horse. Those who were looking on on
this occasion thought me most rash, not knowing I was run
away with, and Lord Wellington himself was much amused
when he learned the real state of the case.
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[1813
Scene after
the battle of
Vittoria.
Plate
plundered at
Vittoria.
Plunder at
Vittoria.
' Riding over the field of battle, I stopped to give a wounded
French officer a drink of water, which he was piteously calling
out for. He was mortally wounded, and the blood gushing
out from his wound. On my speaking a few words of consola-
tion and comfort to him he could not help, even in his agonies,
expressing his indignation at King Joseph and Marshal
Jourdain, the general commanding. He said their army
was more un bordel ambulant than a fighting army.
' And indeed it was a strange scene. The plunder of years
collected, hordes of the Spanish women who had been seduced
by the French officers and men, and lastly, King Joseph's own
seraglio of courtly ladies, cooped up in carriages of which we
had taken possession, forming a procession nearly a mile long ;
the carriages ransacked by our soldiery, and every valuable
taken out of them, but a bottle of brandy seized by them more
eagerly than precious jewels.
' I had collected a considerable quantity of plate, plunder at
the battle of Vittoria, which I purchased at the auctions of it
that took place in the different corps. When I was taken
prisoner all this was sold along with my other effects, as it is
the custom in the British service.
* I never could get back any part of this plate, though I
had applied to those who had purchased it and offered a high
value for it, wishing to preserve it as a memorial of the battle.
Amongst others, a Captain - - of my own regiment had
purchased a coffee-pot, and I offered him the choice of London
for a similar article, if he would return it to me, but he would
not. I call this churlish, particularly in a brother officer.
' Talking of plate, I will just mention an anecdote showing
that there is "nothing new under the sun," and that fashion
in plate, as well as in everything else, constantly revolves and
returns to old things again. I purchased of an old Spaniard,
whose ancestors had resided in South America, some silver
spoons made in that country more than a hundred years ago, of
exactly the fashion and make of the present day.
' The result of the battle of Vittoria was a total rout of the
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French army, and the capture of all their baggage, artillery,
etc. etc. The rich plunder was to an enormous extent, but the
troops (that is the "combatants"), however, profited compara-
tively but little, as they were too busily employed in following
the enemy, and could not stop to plunder, so that all valuables
fell to the share of the " non-combatants" and civilians attached
to the army. Amongst the former may be classed the farriers
of the cavalry, who are never in the ranks, and who frequently
stop behind to plunder the wounded and the dead under pre-
tence of shoeing horses. On this occasion our farriers of the
Fourteenth took advantage of this trick to stop behind and
plunder the very carriages which the regiment had passed and
not touched : such was the severity of discipline in such cases,
that not a single man dismounted to touch anything. Not so the
farriers who lingered behind. They all carried what are called
"churns," viz. large leather cases placed where the dragoon's
holsters for his pistols are placed, and these they crammed with
the abundant spoil of jewellery, etc., which they got by handfuls
out of the carriages ; and moreover, they had overtaken some
mules belonging to the Pay Department of the French army,
but abandoned by those who led them, carrying large boxes of
dollars and other monies. When we arrived at the end of our
pursuit of the routed French army, which terminated at Pam-
peluna, Colonel Hervey, who was aware of the immense booty
in possession of the farriers, who, as "non-combatants," were
far less entitled to it than their comrades in the ranks, who had
fought hard for it, and who had first come up to it, but were
restrained from plundering by their exemplary discipline,
[Colonel Hervey] in order to pounce upon the plunder of these
farriers, who, he knew, had not had time to dispose of it,
suddenly ordered the "Rouse and Assembly" to be sounded
in the camp, and the whole regiment being assembled, farriers
and all (these little suspecting the object of the sudden parade),
he ordered a square to be formed, brought all the farriers to
the middle of it, dismounted them, had their churns taken
off, and the plunder disgorged from them, to the joy and glee
124 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
of the whole corps, who were justly entitled to it. I shall
never forget the scene! There was perhaps more valuable
plunder at Vittoria than at any other battle of modern times.
' The French army was dragging after it, as it was evacuating
Spain, the accumulation of the plunder and robbery of years,
during the whole time of their occupation of the country. The
civilians of the army, viz. the commissariat, storekeepers, and
paymasters, made enormously. One commissary got hold of
a chest of gold doubloons, said to amount to .£10,000. He
thought he would secure it by throwing it (for the time), unper-
ceived, as he imagined, in a deep river, the Zadora, which ran
through the field of battle, but he had been observed by some
Spanish muleteers, who reported the circumstance. The box
was fished up, and the contents credited to the legitimate
captors, viz. the army at large.
Promise to ' An intimate friend in the infantry had often made me
tforfof ™put promise that, if ever he was so severely wounded as to require
friend's hmbs. arnputation of a limb, and he happened to be in too weak a state
to resist the operation, I would not allow it to be performed, as he
said he would rather die than undergo the operation. He was
shot through both legs, on the advance to Vittoria, and immedi-
ately sent for me, and earnestly reminded me of my promise,
as the surgeons insisted on amputating in spite of his remon-
strances, and he felt too weak to offer resistance. It was an
awkward position, I having solemnly promised to interfere,
but the surgeons assured me that he must die if the operations
were delayed. The poor fellow, whose name was Burgess,
looked at me pitifully and reproachfully, as he saw that I felt
disinclined to fulfil my promise. Whilst this painful scene was
going on a sudden bleeding came on, and he died in my arms.'
The valley of Soon after the battle of Vittoria, King Joseph had sent a
an' strong body of French troops into Spain again, to hold the
valley of Bastan in the Pyrenees,1 which was a very fertile spot
and also full of strong military positions. Lieutenant- General
Sir Rowland Hill's Division, consisting of 2 brigades of British
1 Val de Bastan, in Navarre.
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and 2 brigades of Portuguese troops, was at once marched
there to endeavour to drive out the French. The Fourteenth
were attached to this division, and during the four days from
4th to 7th July vigorous movements took place, in which the
troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill succeeded
in driving the enemy from all the positions occupied without
incurring much loss themselves. The Fourteenth took an active
part in these operations, and on 4th July, Major Brotherton, Affair at
with a squadron of the regiment, had an encounter with the ^th"juiy°i8i3.
French near Almandoz.
By this time the allies had established themselves in moun-
tain positions along the edge of the Pyrenees, and occupied
the whole line of the Spanish frontier from Roncesvalles to
the mouth of the river Bidassoa. They had also invested the
towns of Pampeluna and St. Sebastian. King Joseph's reign
had practically ceased after the battle of Vittoria, the day of
humiliation for France, and the downfall of Napoleon was
drawing near. The Fourteenth took the outpost duties in
front of Maya, a pass of the Pyrenees, and furnished posts of
correspondence during several weeks. After a while the French
army was reinforced and reorganised, and Marshal Soult took
the supreme command, and advanced to oppose the allies.
Important actions were fought on the 25th and 26th July near
the Maya Pass, and the allies were forced to retire. On the Actions in the
26th the Fourteenth were employed in carrying off the wounded M
from the field during the action, and were publicly thanked by
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill for the efficient manner
in which this duty was performed.
On ^oth July, when the post at Arestegui was attacked
and an action took place, Major Brotherton's squadron of
the Fourteenth was engaged, and Captain Milles's squadron
was employed in carrying off the wounded from the field.
In August the Fourteenth, forming the van of Lieutenant-
General Sir Rowland Hill's Division, were engaged with the
enemy in the valley of Bastan, in Navarre. Fighting took
place on the ist and 2nd of August, when the French were
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[1813
At the Pass
of Maya,
5th August
1813.
Passage of
river Bidassoa
8th October
1813.
The Fourteenth
enter France,
loth November
1813.
Passage of
the Nivelle
forced, roth
November
1813.
repulsed. On 5th August the regiment again took the outpost
duty in front of Maya.
The siege of San Sebastian, the blockade of Pampeluna,
and other sieges and military operations on the confines of
Spain and in the Pyrenees occupied a large portion of the allied
army for the next two months. On the 8th October, Welling-
ton's army crossed the river Bidassoa and entered French
' territory. During the same month headquarters were fixed in
Vera, and the army was organised in three grand divisions.1
The right was commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir R. Hill,
and extended from Roncesvalles to the Bastan ; the centre
column, occupying Maya, the Echallar, Rhune, and Bayonettes
mountains, was under Lieutenant-General Beresford ; 2 and the
left, extending from the Mandale mountain to the sea, was
under General Sir John Hope.3
By the end of October the troops in the mountain passes
above Roncesvalles were knee-deep in snow, provisions were
scanty, and the privations of the allies were greater even than
those of the French army under Marshal Soult on the opposite
side of the Pyrenees. Finer weather set in on 6th and 7th
November, and Wellington determined to advance into France,
but on the 8th heavy rain caused a postponement of the forward
movement. On the loth November the troops descended the
Pyrenees, traversing the mountain passes by moonlight, where
they halted when they reached the line of picquets, and at day-
break crossed into France. The Fourteenth were attached to
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's Division, and one
squadron of the regiment formed Marshal Beresford's advance-
guard. The enemy's position on the Nivelle was forced, and
on the following day the regiment was united at Espelette.
The regimental baggage, which was attached to the 2nd
Division, fell into the hands of the enemy in the rear of the
pass of Maya, and on that occasion i troop sergeant-major and
2 privates of the Fourteenth were killed.4
1 Napier. 2 Afterwards General Viscount Beresford, G.C.B., G.C.H.
3 Afterwards General Lord Niddry, and later Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.B.
4 Cannon's Record, p. 46.
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The Fourteenth lost their regimental documents and papers Regimental
in charge of the paymaster and adjutant, as well as the officers' documents lost
personal baggage. The escort made a very gallant defence under m Pyrei
a staff officer who was in charge on this occasion. The loss of
these official documents belonging to the Fourteenth was a very
serious matter for the regiment, and probably many interesting
and valuable records which could not be replaced disappeared
on this occasion. General Brotherton relates as follows con-
cerning the incident : —
' Never form a hasty opinion of any man's courage in the Bravery of
field! In a tried corps, such as the i4th Light Dragoons was secant-Major
towards the close of the Peninsular War, we knew each other
pretty well, and our comparative value, individually, in the field, Dragoons
both officers and men ; but still prejudices were entertained
against certain individuals who, if not absolutely shy in action,
were considered not very forward, to say the least of it. One
of the most remarkable instances of the sort that occurred, in
which the judgment proved erroneous and unjust, was that of a
troop-sergeant-major, a nervous man only, of no great reputa-
tion in the field, and who on that account was usually selected
to assist in the command of the baggage, which generally
followed at some distance in the rear of the regiment. On one
occasion, however, the last on which the poor fellow saw an
enemy, the baggage was surprised, and all taken. It was in
the Pyrenees, on the first day of our descent into France, loth
November 1813, a brilliant day for the British arms. Our
baggage went astray, and got separated from us by one of those
deep, narrow precipices so frequent in these mountains, and
we had the mortification of seeing our baggage assailed immedi-
ately under our own eyes, and almost within carbine range,
by a battalion of French " voltigeurs," who took the whole of
it, but not till after a desperate resistance on the part of the
baggage-guard under the command of Sergeant-Major B - ,
whom we distinctly saw most bravely distinguishing himself to
save the baggage, till he and most of the guard fell. We
witnessed this tardy but brilliant justification of his character
with mixed emotions of admiration, but deep regret at having so
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[1813
Passage of the
NiveatCambo ,
9th December
1813.
Mendionda,
nth December
1813.
Hasparren,
1 3th December
1813.
Moral and
physical
courage.
Nive, gth
December
1813.
long done him an injustice. It was a lesson that ought never
to be forgotten, and should teach all soldiers to be charitable,
and not hasty in their judgments upon their comrades in the
field.'
From the i5th of November to the 9th of December the
Fourteenth furnished the outposts on the river Nive,1 and formed
the advance-guard to Sir Rowland Hill's Corps at the passage
of that river, which was effected at the fords of Cambo, where
the stream being deep, 2 men and 2 horses belonging to the
regiment were unfortunately drowned.
On nth December a squadron of the Fourteenth under
command of Major Brotherton was engaged with a body of the
enemy near Mendionda, and captured a convoy of corn, wine, and
salt, making 4 men as well as 4 horses of the escort prisoners.
On 1 3th December, at Hasparren in the Basses Pyrenees,
the Fourteenth as well as part of the 1 3th Light Dragoons were
engaged with the French light cavalry commanded by General
Pierre Soult (brother of the Marshal), and on this occasion
Major Brotherton, i sergeant, and i private were wounded,
and Lieutenant the Honourable H. Southwell's horse was
killed. Major Brotherton, Lieutenant the Honourable H.
Southwell, and i man were taken prisoners by the enemy.
The Fourteenth drove the enemy out of Hasparren. Referring
to the affair at Hasparren and the forcing of the Nive on the
9th December, the following incidents are related by General
Brotherton : — ' The most guarded and considerate judgment
should ever be passed on the deportment of soldiers in the
field, young or old, as the following anecdote will show : —
'General Sir was known in the army as a gallant
soldier, and though somewhat slow, and not brilliant in action,
yet he had always done his duty. On the 9th December 1813,
the day on which we forced the passage of the river Nive, in the
south of France, at the bridge of Cambo, Sir 's brigade
being in line, but lying down as the enemy were throwing
1 The 1 3th and i4th Light Dragoons were engaged in the operations by which
the passage of the Nive was effected on the 9th December 1813. — Cannon's Historical
Record of the \"$th Light Dragoons, p. 59.
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shot and shells at it, the General, also sitting down in front,
surrounded by his staff, and taking the opportunity of eating a
mouthful, and drinking a glass of wine before commencing
the attack — he beckoned me to partake of his grog, which
I willingly did, having eaten nothing since noon on the pre-
ceding day. I squatted myself down with the party. The
enemy's fire was doing but little mischief ; still, it was neces-
sary to keep out of sight as much as possible, in order not
to attract more fire. However, just as we were filling our
mouths, and helping ourselves to a glass of wine, a shell came
over us, and fell within four or five yards of our group, but
buried itself so deeply in the ground that it was easy, with the
least presence of mind, to see that its explosion would be
harmless, or nearly so. The General had his glass of wine up
to his mouth at the very moment the shell fell ; he instantly
threw away his glass of wine on the ground, and himself flat on
his belly, which is the usual mode resorted to in order to
escape the effect of the explosion of a shell, which, when it
bursts, cannot hurt you when you are in this position. We, the
group round the General, could not help roaring with laughter
at the risible operation the General had gone through from his
nervousness, and indeed the whole Brigade, lying down in line,
roared with laughter also at their General's ridiculous predica-
ment, sprawling on the ground. A poor young fellow, his aide-
de-camp, young of the 3rd Guards, who joined heartily
in the joke, was shortly afterwards killed, on another occasion.
' I relate this anecdote, not in disparagement of, or with any
disrespect towards General , and his reputation can well
bear that such an anecdote be told of him, but only to show
the occasional nervousness which the best seasoned soldier (and
General had been a great deal under fire during a long
military career) will sometimes involuntarily betray under fire.
' Had this happened to a young untried soldier, he would
have felt ashamed of himself perhaps, though without reason, for
his moral courage to do his duty might be equal to any man's,
notwithstanding his physical nerves failed him in this way.
130 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
' One of the bravest men of his day, L'Amiral Coligni,
in Henri Quatre's time, used to say, "On nest pas brave tgalt-
ment tousles jours" and no doubt this is perfectly true. One's
nerves are not equally strong every day. Let us therefore
put the most favourable and charitable construction on the
deportment of men in battle, till we find out they are really
good for nothing.
'The night before the battle (for the iith December 1813
I3th December , Y • \ t T-» i r
1813. was a battle, and a sanguinary one too), as the Duke of
Wellington had promised me a step of rank on the first
occasion it could be granted — and I was then only a Major
— Sir Hussey Vivian, who was the General commanding our
brigade, being a great friend of mine, and anxious to afford
me an opportunity of distinguishing myself, arranged that I
should lead the charge (a sort of forlorn hope) with a certain
number of picked men, to drive the enemy out of the village
of Hasparren, which they occupied in force. Accordingly,
early in the morning of the i3th, I descended towards the
village with my party, immediately supported by a half
squadron, and found the enemy, the I3th Chasseurs, and
Chamboran (2nd) Hussars, posted behind a narrow bridge,
at the entrance of the village. I immediately ordered the
trumpeter to sound the "charge," so that those behind us
who were to support should advance at the same time, and
putting myself at the head of my men, rode at the enemy ;
but as the bridge was a very narrow one, only myself, Lieu-
tenant Southwell (a distinguished officer, whom I had chosen to
accompany me), and my orderly, could pass over at a time,
which we accordingly did. The enemy received us with a
volley from their pistols and carbines, when we were close
upon them. Southwell's horse fell dead, and he fell under him.
However, myself and orderly closed with the enemy. The
orderly had his bridle-hand nearly chopped off, and was run
through the body, and I was then left alone amidst the enemy.
I was belaboured with cuts and thrusts from all sides, defend-
ing myself as long as I could against such odds. However,
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after receiving eleven thrusts, three of which only wounded
me (as I wore a buffalo leather cuirass which I had made at
Madrid, after having been run through the body at Sala-
manca), I was wounded through the neck, in the right hip, or
to speak more plainly, in the bottom, on the right side, and
another stab in the thigh, which would have proved the worst
of all, had it not been for a bunch of letters which I had that
morning received from England, and which I had put into
one of the pockets which were then worn with pantaloons.
The sword penetrated the letters, and went a quarter of an
inch into the thigh, close to what is called, I believe, the
femoral artery, which, had it touched, probably it would have
proved fatal ; but the blow which rendered it impossible to
make further resistance was a sabre-cut, aimed at my head,
which fell on the peak of my helmet with such force that it
bent it on my nose, which it flattened and nearly broke, and
completely stunned me. As I said, this blow disabled me from
further resistance, and, indeed, no signs of any assistance
appearing, rendered it useless to resist any longer. Sur-
rounded as I was by fellows cutting and thrusting at me in
all directions, and so occupied was I in parrying, that I had
not time for assaulting in my turn. It was my intention to
surrender, but a little circumstance caused me to be much
more roughly treated than I otherwise should probably have
been. I had, previously to advancing to the "charge," twisted
my silk sword-knot round and round my wrist, by way of
securing my sword the more effectually ; and when stunned by
the cut on my helmet, which I have just before mentioned,
and summoned on all sides by vociferations to surrender
(rendez vous), my sword was seized, but as it was so
tightly fastened to my wrist, this was taken for an intention
not to surrender it ; and a fellow cocked his pistol, and put it
to my head to blow out my brains, when I had just sufficiently
recovered to articulate Je me rends ! I was then secured,
and tied on my horse, being too faint to sit on it otherwise, and
galloped off to the rear (like Mazeppa), for by this time Sir
i32 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
Hussey Vivian and his whole brigade were advancing to rescue
me. The mare I rode (the same as was wounded near Sala-
manca) got her head cut open on this occasion, but behaved
most gallantly. She reared and literally pawed, when on her
hind legs, at my antagonists. I will add a little anecdote that
happened when the French surgeon was dressing the wound in
my neck, as it is to his credit, and shows that chivalrous spirit
with which war was then carried on : —
1 1 always wore eight or ten gold pieces, of about £$
each, in a piece of black silk, round my neck, in case of need,
if taken prisoner. I had wore this so long, that the silk was a
good deal worn out, and showed the gold. On taking off my
stock to look at the wound, the surgeon, perceiving this, im-
mediately covered my neck again, and whispered to me (for
the French Hussars who had brought me to the rear were
looking on) that I had better conceal the money. I desired
him, however, to take it and give it to the men, whose lawful
prize it was.
1 I tried to recover my mare, and offered any sum to get
her and send her back, but in vain, for she was evidently of
the purest Arabian breed : she was sent to one of the Imperial
studs. My exchange for a French officer of equal rank was
arranged, the very day after I was taken, and he was sent over
to his army ; but through the bad faith of Marshal Soult, I
was detained under the pretence, at first, that wounds -disabled
me from being sent, but, as I found out afterwards, through
an idea that I had seen so much of the country, through which
our army was likely to advance, as to be enabled to give in-
formation disadvantageous to the enemy.
'When taken prisoner on the I3th December 1813, and
taken to the rear of the French army, and smarting and lame
with my wounds, on one of the day's halts I stopped at Tarbes.
This is a town famous for cutlery, and I had a billet de logement
(the troops in France being always quartered in private houses)
at a rich cutler's who, not expecting, I suppose, the further
advance of the British army, and the occupation of Tarbes by
1813] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 133
British troops, was extremely brutal and unkind to me, which,
in my helpless state, I felt most keenly, but was soon revenged
on the brute, for, one morning early, that I was sent off further
to the rear, on the report that the British army was advancing,
" mine host " came to me in a most sneaking humble way, very
different from the insolent one he had hitherto behaved to me,
and asked me for a letter that might be some sort of protection
to his person and property on the entrance of the British troops
into Tarbes. I thought it an excellent opportunity of "paying
him off," as the saying is, and, as he did not understand a word
of English (and very few people in this part of France do), I
wrote a "protecting pass" for this scoundrel as follows : —
1 " The bearer of this is one of the greatest brutes that ever
breathed. He treated me like a dog during the time I was
lying wounded in his house, and I strongly recommend him to
the special notice of all British soldiers, who, no doubt, will
treat him as he deserves, for his infamous treatment of their
wounded comrade."
' By a strange fatality it so happened that it was a party of
my own regiment, the I4th Light Dragoons, that formed the
advance-guard of the British army and first entered Tarbes,
and to whom the cutler presented my certificate. I need not
say that he was " paid off." They nearly killed him !
'When I was taken prisoner on i3th December 1813, I
was a Major in the i4th Light Dragoons, and was promised
my rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on the first battle. I was
given a sort of " forlorn hope " to give me an opportunity of
distinguishing myself. I was severely wounded, and if I did
not succeed it was not my fault. Being a prisoner, however,
I was left out of the Brevet that was given for the battle.
1 This was a hard case, though it is the custom of the service.
I never recovered the ground I lost by this disappointment.
' The charger I rode during most of the Peninsular war was Life of
the one I rode when taken prisoner, as related above. She was
bought by my father (who was a great judge of horses) at the
sale of the King's stud, at three years old. She was of the
i34 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
purest Arabian blood, and perfect symmetry, fifteen hands high,
dark brown, a perfect picture, most graceful in all her move-
ments, but very conceited. As she walked along she looked
to the right and to the left, as if to see who was admiring her.
She was the admiration of the whole army. She was so
sagacious that marvellous stories were told of her. She
always wore a silken net to protect her from the flies that
maddened her when she hadn't it on. She was wounded
several times. At Salamanca a shell shattered her stifle or
thigh, and I was nearly advised to shoot her as incurable, but
the stud groom of Lord Charles Manners effected a perfect
cure after a long time, only leaving an immense scar and dent.
She was twice wounded by sabre-cuts on the head. The last
time was in the m£lee on December 13, 1813, when I was
taken prisoner, when she actually reared and pawed my
antagonist, as if to defend me. She had her head cut open
in a dreadful way. Still, I offered any sum to purchase her,
but she became the property of the French Government, and
was sent to a breeding stud, where her pure blood was most
valuable. I was often tempted, by large offers, to sell her.
Sir Charles Stewart, since Lord Londonderry, had offered me
300 guineas for her. She was, though of excellent temper,
difficult to ride, from her fiery disposition. In bivouac, when
lying down beside me, she would lift up her head to see if I
was sleeping, and if she saw I was she would immediately lie
down again, for fear of disturbing me. She was particularly
fond of raw beef-steaks, and it was difficult to keep the men's
rations from her, even if suspended on trees as they usually
were, by way of safety. Her name was " Fatima."
After the victory of St. Pierre, near Bayonne, on i3th
December, Wellington was firmly established on the Adour.
On the 1 4th December the Fourteenth took the outpost
duty in front of Urt, near the river Adour, and on 2ist
December parties from both the i3th and i4th Light
Dragoons shared the outpost work at Urcuit and La Bastide,
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 135
both the latter places being somewhat to the south of Urt.
The two regiments (i3th and i4th Light Dragoons), known
as the ' Ragged Brigade,' were now under Brigadier-General
Vivian (afterwards Sir Hussey Vivian), and he was succeeded
in the beginning of 1814 by Major-General Fane.1 The army
under Lord Wellington now took a short rest in quarters during
very severe and inclement weather before resuming work again
in the middle of February.
After the battle of Vittoria and the pursuit to Pampeluna The * Ragged
the Fourteenth were brigaded with the i3th Light Dragoons, its'lrigadfers,
when they were nicknamed the ' Ragged Brigade,' first under I8l3-i4»
the command of Major-General Long, then in November 1813
under Brigadier-General Grant, and subsequently under Briga-
dier-General Richard Hussey Vivian (afterwards Major-General
Sir Hussey Vivian, K.C.B.), during the advance into France,
and in 1814 under Major-General Sir Henry Fane, K.C.B., who
commanded the brigade at the battles of Orthes, Aire, and
Toulouse. The origin of the sobriquet of ' Ragged Brigade '
was owing to the ragged state to which those two famous fight-
ing regiments were reduced as a result of their long-continued
service in the field, and their frequent marches, bivouacs, and
exposure in all weathers.2
It is a curious coincidence that both these regiments, who
became such firm friends when on service in the Peninsula
and afterwards in peace time, should have had an early history
very similar one to the other. Both regiments went through
those extraordinarily lengthened periods of consecutive ser-
vice in Ireland during the eighteenth century, of twenty-five
years at one time, and of forty-eight years at another ; both
regiments were engaged in the Jacobite rebellions of 1715
and 1 745 ; in the latter year both regiments were brigaded
together at Corstorphine, Coltbridge, and Haddington, under
1 During the Peninsular War the Fourteenth served in brigades at various times
under the following officers as brigadiers, viz.: — 1809, Cotton; 1810-11, Slade ;
1811, Arentschild; 1812-13, Victor Alten ; 1813, Long, Grant, and Vivian; 1814,
Fane and Doherty.
1 Cannon's Historical Record of the \$th Light Dragoons, p. 63.
i36 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
Colonel Gardiner of the Thirteenth, which regiment was
then called ' Gardiner's Dragoons,' and the Fourteenth were
called ' Hamilton's Dragoons,' Colonel Archibald Hamilton
being their Colonel. At Prestonpans the two regiments
fought together, on which occasion their experiences were
very similar.
In 1795 they met once more at Bristol, both being without
horses, when preparing to go on service in the West Indies,
where both regiments were subsequently employed in that
disastrous campaign — which reduced them to skeletons by
yellow fever, and from which they returned home in very
reduced numbers when the operations were over. The next
recorded meeting of the two regiments was in the Peninsular
War, when they were christened the 'Ragged Brigade,' in
1813-14, and their next two meetings were in 1841 and 1897,
as related further on in these pages.
The 1 3th Hussars have in their possession a manuscript
journal written by an officer in that regiment at the time of the
Peninsular War, and the following extracts, taken from that
journal, were kindly given to the writer of these records by an
officer of the i3th Hussars,1 as they contain so many allusions
to the doings of the Fourteenth in 1813-14, when brigaded
with the Thirteenth.
EXTRACTS FROM MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL IN POSSESSION OF
I3TH HUSSARS (1897)
' On 9th November 1813, at Elizondo, in the Bastan Valley,
Navarre, the 1 3th Light Dragoons were in brigade with the
1 4th Light Dragoons, Colonel Grant commanding the brigade in
place of Colonel Long, who had been appointed to a command
in England, and the two regiments marched together through the
1 Captain J. H. Tremayne (Adjt.), I3th Hussars.
1813] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 137
Pyrenees by the Maya Pass, thence to Urdache,1 near the river The « Ragged
Bidassoa, which divides France from Spain, and having France!
crossed that river, entered French territory early on the morning ™^ November
of the loth November. Here, at 3 A.M., they bivouacked
after a tedious night-march across the mountains of nearly
six leagues. After a few hours' rest the brigade mounted, and
advanced with the infantry, one squadron of the i4th Light
Dragoons forming an advance-guard for Marshal Beresford's
Corps, but the brigade really belonged to Lieutenant-General
Sir Rowland Hill's Division. In a short time the advanced
posts of the enemy became visible ; these were all driven in,
and our army came in view of the very strongly entrenched
position held by the French under Marshal Soult, on the
Nivelle. This was defended by numberless redoubts bristling
with cannon, and was considered impregnable — so much so that
the French had erected huts in which they imagined they
might securely pass the winter and bid defiance to the British
advance. As the nature of the country was not suited for
cavalry operations, the brigade could only witness the gallant
and determined conduct of the infantry, by whom, though
exposed to cannon-shot, position after position, hill after hill,
forts and redoubts, were successively attacked and carried
in the face of Soult's entire force, which, covering the hills on
every side, lined the entrenchments, and manned the forts.
The attacks were generally made at the point of the bayonet,
and ultimately the enemy broke and fled in all directions,
pursued by our infantry, and supported by Grant's cavalry
brigade, which could only move along the roads, and even
there the enemy had placed felled trees and other impediments
which prevented our men from acting with effect. Towards
evening the brigade retired and bivouacked in a wood, after
marching about four leagues. During the operations of this
day the Spaniards had been posted on the extreme right of
the British line, where they were attacked and repulsed by
1 Probably Urdax on the Nivelle, opposite to the heights of Ainhoa (Basses
Pyrenees).
138 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1813
the enemy, in consequence of which a very large quantity of
baggage belonging to the British, including that attached to
the 2nd Division, which on the previous night had come
safely through the Maya Pass, fell into the enemy's hands
when approaching Espelette (Basses Pyrenees), and on this
occasion the i4th Light Dragoons unfortunately lost their
baggage, as well as a Troop-Sergeant- Major and two privates
who were killed.
'On nth November the brigade marched onwards.
Putting up at the town of Arrina,1 they moved forward again
in the evening, and bivouacked near Espelette, after proceeding
about three and a half leagues. On i2th and I3th November
they shifted their ground and bivouacked in front of Espelette,
at an advanced post two leagues to the front.
' On 1 3th a sharp cannonade and musketry firing took place
between the British, aided by the Portuguese troops, and the
enemy, on the banks of the Nive, near Cambo. After dark our
infantry fell back, and a frightful storm of rain, which baffles all
description, continued the whole night. From i5th November
to 9th December the brigade was employed in furnishing the
outposts on the river Nive.
Battle of the ' On Qth December the brigade turned out about 2 A.M., got
9thV December mto ^e positions ordered on the banks of the Nive, with the
I8l3- 1 4th Light Dragoons forming the advance-guard to the forces
under Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, and by daylight
a general attack commenced. The river, which was deep and
strongly defended by the enemy, was forded at various points
in front of our line, and the enemy was forced back on all sides.
Our brigade forded the Nive, forming up on the opposite
banks : the Fourteenth lost two men and two horses drowned in
the deep stream of the river near Cambo. The main body of the
infantry crossed the Nive by a bridge, formed on the opposite
bank, advanced, and drove the French from every position
occupied. Owing to the enclosed and hilly nature of the
country the cavalry could not be brought to act with effect, so
1 Perhaps Ainhoue is intended.
1814] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 139
our brigade merely moved on in support of the infantry. Our
brigade continued to take the outpost duties, and Brigadier-
General Hussey Vivian (afterwards General Lord Vivian,
G.C.B., G.C. H.) had succeeded Brigadier Grant in command.
On 2ist December the brigade was at Urcuit and La Bastide,
somewhat to the south of Urt.
1814
'In January 1814 our brigade was under the command of
Major-General Fane, and a movement was made up to the high
ground two leagues in front of Briscous, but the outposts there
were attacked and driven in, and the ground retaken, on the 3rd
January. The weather continued exceptionally severe at this
season, particularly so on the 4th and 5th January, when the
brigade was literally bivouacked in mud ; the horses, as they
stood, were covered with mud almost up to their hocks and
knees. Forage had to be procured from near the enemy, and
force used to obtain it. Food also was very scarce, the usual
supply being a little biscuit with spirits and water ; the rain
was soaking, and no baggage had come up when the brigade
bivouacked on the night of the 5th January, on which day His
Grace the Duke of Wellington passed by and saw for himself
the state of affairs. On the 6th we moved our ground in the
morning and took up a better position, and that evening
Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Lowry Cole's and
Lieutenant - General Sir Thomas Picton's Divisions came
up, having been much delayed by the flooded state of the
country and the incessant rains.
'On 7th January the i3th Light Dragoons proceeded to
Briscous and the Fourteenth to Urt, about four miles further to
the north. Both regiments now reposed for a short time in these
quarters, where the weather continued very severe, forage for
the horses very scarce and exceedingly difficult to obtain. The
usual food procurable for our horses was furze, cut and pounded
and made into a sort of paste.
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' In February military operations were recommenced, the
i4th Light Dragoons taking the van in the advance against
the enemy's left flank, which led to the subsequent actions
fought at Hellette, Garris, and Sauveterre.
'On nth February the brigade moved its quarters, the
Thirteenth to St. Pee and thence to Urcuray ; the Fourteenth
going a different route, but rejoining the i3th Light Dragoons
on 1 3th February at a point on the St. Palais road.
Gams, ' On the i sth February the brigade continued its march in
1 5th February r i • /• i i • i- • /-IT-. T-» r t
1814. rear ol the infantry columns, this district of the Basses Pyrenees
proving quite impracticable for cavalry movements ; but the
infantry drove the enemy from every position occupied, and
this notwithstanding the clever tactics displayed by Soult, who
disputed the ground inch by inch. At length, towards evening,
it was ascertained that the French had halted, and were in
position on three mountains to our front in considerable force,
so our army halted and hasty dispositions were made for attack.
Before the brigades had reached their several points of impact,
darkness had begun to set in, but, notwithstanding this, and
also that the mountain sides and their summits were crowded
with the enemy's troops, nothing could resist our attack ; the
French were driven at every point, whilst the cheering " huzzas!"
which soon rose on all sides, reverberating from mountain to
mountain, proclaimed the British victory. The contest was
not over till long after dark, and the enemy fought with
desperation. These heights being over the town of Garris,
the action goes by that name ; it is near St. Palais (Basses
Pyrenees).
'On 1 6th February the brigade marched and crossed the
ground where the attack had taken place the night previously ;
the ground was literally filled with dead. The Thirteenth
were ordered to put up at St. Palais, but this town was
found to be so crowded with Spaniards that it was preferred
to bivouac in a wood close by, and the Fourteenth remained
at Garris.
' On 1 7th February the Thirteenth were ordered to protect
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the artillery and infantry and continued in front ; the country Sauveterre,
. . , . , . . . . 1 7th February
was clear and open and the enemy was soon descried in view, 1814.
strong in numbers, particularly in cavalry. The brigade with
horse artillery was hurried to the front, and shortly afterwards
the guns unlimbered and came into action ; the enemy replied,
and a smart cannonade ensued, to which our brigade was for
some time much exposed. The infantry eventually came up
and formed to attack a village in front, on the opposite side of
the river (Gave d'Oleron), and as the bridge had been destroyed
by the French, His Majesty's 92nd Regiment, supported by
other British troops, dashed into the water and got safely
over to the opposite bank, where they re-formed and rushed
forward to the attack. The enemy was now driven out of
the village and pursued towards the town of Sauveterre.
The infantry, with great gallantry, drove the enemy before
them until he took shelter under his own guns, when our
line of outposts was established, and after dark the brigade
bivouacked.
' On 1 8th February we took up a position near the village,
and on iQth marched to Nabas.1 On 2Oth, owing to the
Spaniards having fallen back, our outposts were also thrown
back.
1 On 2ist February a reconnaissance in force was led by
Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill in the direction of
Navarrenx. On 24th, after crossing the Gave d'Oleron at
Villenave, Captain Townsend, i4th Light Dragoons, with a
detachment of his regiment, encountered a body of French
cavalry and took an officer prisoner, and brought him into the
brigade at our bivouac that evening, when both regiments were
together. The outpost duties to the right flank were taken by
the Thirteenth, those to the left flank by the Fourteenth. A
severe frost set in, and forage-parties were sent out after dark,
but scanty supplies were obtained.
'On next day (25th February) we marched to the heights
above the town of Orthes, by which flows the Gave de Pau.
1 On the Gave de Mauleon.
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On 26th the brigade was ready on its alarm-post, momentarily
expecting to be called into action.
Battle of 'On 27th February the battle of Orthes was fought. Our
27th February brigade was with Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's Corps.
1814. The j^h Light Dragoons operated against the enemy's left,
after passing the stream above Orthes and advancing towards
the great road leading to St. Sever, but subsequently the two
regiments received orders to fall back as the French had
brought artillery fire to bear from the opposite heights, and
their shell and shot came amongst the brigade and through the
ranks, wounding several men and horses. The fighting con-
tinued till dark, by which time the enemy had been forced at
every point, and our victory was as complete as at Vittoria.
The losses of the French are computed at from 8000 to 10,000
men in killed and wounded. Our army rested on the field,
where the brigade bivouacked.
' On 28th February, at daybreak, the brigade mounted,
and with the horse artillery marched in pursuit through
the town of Cadoures, thence six leagues onwards, taking a
number of prisoners from the enemy who were retreating in
disorder.
' On ist March the brigade reached the banks of the Adour,
and the 1 4th Light Dragoons, forming the advance-guard of Lieu-
tenant-General Sir R. Hill's Corps, forded the river, followed by
the rest of the troops ; but when they had advanced a league
orders for our brigade to countermarch were given, and we were
told to recross the river and put up wherever we could find cover,
and to send out two squadrons on outpost duty under command
of the field-officer of the day. After a march of five leagues,
during which the rain had fallen incessantly, the brigade found
a resting-place just before dark. Before daybreak on 2nd
March we assembled in brigade, and received orders to advance
in front of the infantry towards Aire in Landes. The usual
advance-guard of one squadron furnished by the I4th Light
Dragoons was thrown out, and it was soon reported that the
greater part of the enemy were not in the town of Aire, but were
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posted in force at a point on this side of it. Lieutenant-General Action at
Sir R. Hill at once reconnoitred their position, and as the country anJfkarch
was not suitable for cavalry operations, he immediately ordered I8l4-
up the infantry and made the necessary dispositions for attack.
The action was completely successful, the enemy was driven from
every position occupied, and ultimately from the town of Aire.
A violent and incessant rain fell with but little interruption all
day and night. On the 3rd March the rain still continued to
fall, accompanied by sleet and snow, but we advanced in the
face of the elements, though by slow degrees, as there was also
an enemy in great force, close at hand. We reached the
Commune Lagos on 3rd March. On 7th March we were at
Garlin : here the enemy, advancing from Conches, endeavoured,
but without effect, to turn our flank. On the 8th March we
were visited on our outposts by Lieutenant-General Sir R. Hill,
who ordered up three companies of the 57th Regiment to
support us. On the loth we advanced from Garlin to Tadusse,
which post was very far advanced and contiguous to the
enemy's lines. On the i2th we reached the great high-road
leading from Conches to Lembege, where the enemy's cavalry,
800 strong, were discovered by our advanced squadron, and our
brigade was retired again to Tadusse. On i3th March the
enemy advanced, in considerable force of all arms, along the
Lembege -Conches road. Several encounters took place be-
tween the advanced parties of our brigade and those of the
enemy. The Spanish infantry came up, but they were power-
less against the superior forces of the French, and we had to
fall back almost to Garlin on I4th March.
'At last the British infantry arrived, and the 28th Regiment
quickly drove off the enemy's sharpshooters and their sup-
porting battalion. More British regiments came up and the
enemy retreated, and our troops took possession of the heights
which commanded Conches. On this day (i4th March) the Engaged near
i4th Light Dragoons were engaged with the enemy in two MaaUrch4i8i4.
affairs on the Pau road, in which they behaved with their usual
bravery ; in one of them Captain Babington was wounded and
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taken prisoner, and a few days before this Captain Townsend
had been taken prisoner near Pau.
'On 1 5th March the two regiments of the "Ragged Brigade"
(i3th and i4th Light Dragoons), under command of Major-
General Fane, turned out and proceeded to the alarm-post on
the Pau road, by daylight. Here they remained exposed to
severe storms of rain and snow till between 3 and 4 o'clock P.M.,
when they returned to quarters. On the i6th March the two
regiments again assembled at daylight at the alarm-post on the
Pau road, and remained again till evening exposed to the most
inclement weather, when the Thirteenth returned to their
quarters at Garlin, and the Fourteenth went on outpost duty at
Tourniquet and Clarac, where they were subsequently relieved
by a squadron of the Thirteenth.
' On i Qth March (after being separated a few days) the two
regiments came up with one another again near Vic Bigorre,
where Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton with his 3rd
Division had forced the enemy from their quarters ; and here the
brigade once more bivouacked together in a neighbouring wood
without baggage or tents, using their cloaks for bedding, after
a long march of six leagues and a half. During the night the
Heavy Brigade, consisting of 3rd Dragoon Guards and Royal
Dragoons,' joined the Light Brigade, and the four regiments
formed a division of cavalry under Major-General Fane. * The
command of the Light Brigade was given to Colonel Doherty,
1 3th Light Dragoons, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Clifton
of the Royals got command of the Heavy Brigade. At 6 A.M.,
2Ot^ March, the Cavalry Division proceeded to Tarbes, flanking
2oth March the infantry on their right. The cavalry forded the Adour
river and was formed in contiguous columns of half squadrons
on the opposite bank ; the infantry crossed by a bridge.
The enemy now appeared in considerable force, strongly
posted on the heights to our front ; our infantry attacked. The
country was unsuitable for cavalry operations. The enemy
was forced and driven from every position by the determined
conduct of the British infantry. Our cavalry could only
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look on and admire their gallant conduct, and when the fight
was over bivouacked close by for the night. In the evening
the outpost duty was taken by the I4th Light Dragoons.
' On 2ist March the Light Brigade put up at the village of
La Bartha. On 22nd March the affair of St. Gaudens took place, st. Gaudens,
The day was wet, rain poured incessantly. The Fourteenth H"**
were in advance, and towards evening put up at a village to
the left of the line of route, the Royals in a village to the right,
the 3rd Dragoon Guards being halted more to the rear, and the
Thirteenth more to the front, near to St. Gaudens, where they
distinguished themselves in an engagement with the enemy.
On 23rd March a halt was made, and the men endeavoured to
clean up after their recent hard work. On 24th March the
Division proceeded. On 25th the Heavy Brigade, as well as
the 1 4th Light Dragoons, were put up in several adjacent
villages, but the Thirteenth occupied one on a different flank.
' On 26th March, in pouring rain, the Division assembled
on the great Toulouse road ; the heavies and the 1 4th Light
Dragoons passed the night at the town of Muret, and the
Thirteenth went on further, driving the enemy before them
along the Toulouse road, through Roques and Portet. On 27th
March the Division was halted in villages adjacent to Villeneuve.
' On 28th, outposts were established in front of Portet. On
3ist the 5th Dragoon Guards came up, and a portion of the
Cavalry Division moved on to Mieremont. On ist April,
Villeneuve was occupied. On 4th April the Division was
approaching Toulouse, and a chain of outposts was established.
On 8th April the i4th Light Dragoons, being in advance,
arrived in front of Toulouse, and the other regiments of
the Cavalry Division followed. Forage became very scanty
and very indifferent in quality. On roth April, at the battle Battle of
of Toulouse, the i4th Light Dragoons acted with the troops ^o
under command of Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, and l8l4>
took part in the battle which ended in the repulse of the
French army, when it was driven off its ground. On the
1 2th April it was discovered that the enemy had completely
K
war.
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evacuated the city of Toulouse in the night. The Duke of
Wellington entered Toulouse in triumph. Our Division
under Major-General Fane took part in the triumph, and
entered the city. Everywhere the British were received
by the populace with most joyful acclamations, the white
cockade was worn by all, and the white flag was displayed,
the air resounded with cries of " Vivent les Anglais ! Vive le
Roi ! " After marching through the town the Cavalry Division
crossed a canal, when some of the troops came in contact
with portions of the enemy, but the latter retired. On i3th
April news arrived that Napoleon Buonaparte had abdicated, the
Bourbon dynasty was restored, and the war was terminated.
'On 1 8th April it was announced in general orders that
hostilities were over.
End of the « On 22nd our brigade, i3th and i4th Light Dragoons,
marched for Aire, and passing through Toulouse halted, the
Thirteenth at Tournefuile, the Fourteenth at Columniez.1 On
the 23rd the brigade marched to Isle de Jourdaine, on 24th to
Guinat. On 25th April a halt was made ; 26th April the brigade
marched, the Thirteenth putting up at or near Ordain, and the
Fourteenth at Auch. On 27th April the brigade marched to
Vic Fogensac, on the 28th to Vigora, and on the 2 9th to Aire,
where orders were received to continue the march to Mont-
de-Marsan,2 where both regiments arrived on 3Oth April 1814.'
(Here the Extracts from the \^>th Hussars' Journal end.}
At Mont-de-Marsan the brigade was broken up. On i3th May
the 1 4th Light Dragoons marched for Bordeaux, and the two
regiments, which had served together so long as companions in
arms and become such firm friends, were once again separated,
and the historic ' Ragged Brigade ' became a thing of the past.
Wellington's advance in the middle of February had
been much retarded by the late arrival of new clothing for
his troops, and as there was no means of transport, he had to
1 Or Colummiez, in Haute-Garonne.
2 Mont-de-Marsan is in Landes, 65 miles south of Bordeaux.
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send regiments in succession to the stores to fetch it. His
first operations were merely to turn the rivers beyond the
Nive, at their sources, with Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland
Hill's Corps, in which the Fourteenth were acting as advance-
guard, being in brigade with the i3th Light Dragoons, now
under Major-General Fane's command.
Hill's Corps, consisting of 20,000 combatants and 16 guns,
was operating against the left flank of Marshal Soult's army, and
took post on the i2th and i3th February about Urcuray and
Hasparren. On the i4th they marched in two columns, one
by Bouloc,1 towards the Joyeuse, the other by the great road
of St. Jean Pied de Port towards Hellette. Harispe, the
French general at the latter town, retired skirmishing towards
St. Palais, thus leaving open the great road to St. Jean Pied
de Port, while the Joyeuse was passed by the other column.
On the 1 5th, Hill marched through Meharin upon Garris,
but as the road was bad for artillery, the guns went to the
right by Armendaritz. Harispe's rearguard was overtaken
and driven back fighting.
The affair at Garris ensued : the French general was in Gams
position in advance of the Bidouze river on Garris mountain 1814. e
near St. Palais. The fighting began quite late in the day ;
the 39th and 28th Regiments greatly distinguished themselves,
supported by the Spaniards and Portuguese, and the position
was carried by the allies, who lost 160 men, but the French
losses were 500 men, of whom 200 were taken prisoners.
On the 1 6th February, Hill crossed the Bidouze, the
cavalry and artillery by the bridge at St. Palais, the infantry
by the fords.
On the 1 7th, Hill passed through Domenzain towards the
Soissons, meaning to attack the French at Arriveriete, who,
under General Paris, were defending the Soissons above its
confluence with the Gave d'Oleron.2 The French outposts
were driven across the Gave, and the British, 92nd Regiment,
took the bridge of Arriveriete, where the allies halted. The
French retired ; and on the 1 8th the allies seized the great
1 Or Bonloc. 2 Or Gave d'Oloron.
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road running from Sauveterre to Navarrens1 up the left bank
of the Gave d'Oleron. Harispe was reinforced by Generals
Paris and Villate, and took up a strong position at Sauveterre,
occupying a bridge-head on the left bank, and supported by
a brigade of cavalry. Hill now sent a force up the Soissons
to guard the fords, and with Fane's cavalry as well as British
and Portuguese infantry spread out between that river and
the Gave d'Oleron, he occupied the villages along the road
to Navarrens, and opened a cannonade against the Sauveterre
bridge-head. After this Marshal Soult sent Pierre Soult with his
cavalry brigade and some infantry to operate between Oleron
and Pau, fearing that the allies designed to march on the latter
place, whilst he decided to hold the Gave d'Oleron and Gave
de Pau so long as he could, and then to fall back on Orthes.
By the 23rd February, Wellington had six divisions of
infantry and two brigades of cavalry concentrated beyond the
Gave de Mauleon on the Gave d'Oleron between Sauveterre
and Navarrens. Meanwhile there was a large body of the
French army at Orthes and Sauveterre feeling towards
Navarrens, and on 24th the allies began to move across the
Gave d'Oleron.
On the 25th a large portion of Wellington's army was
massed in front of Orthes, including five regiments of cavalry,
amongst which were the Fourteenth, whilst another large
column with Lord Edward Somerset's brigade of cavalry was
at Berenx, five miles lower down the Gave de Pau, and two
divisions, as well as Vivian's cavalry, were in front of Peyre-
horade ; there were also five British regiments at St. Palais,
or in that direction.
On the 26th, Marshal Beresford with two divisions and
Vivian's Hussar Brigade crossed the Gave de Pau near
Peyrehorade, the i8th Hussars having secured the passage
of a ford.
Battle of On the 27th at daybreak, two more divisions crossed near
Orthes,
27th February i Or Navarrenx, on the Gave d'Oleron, in the Basses-Pyre'ne'es, 12 miles south
I4- of Orthes.
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Berenx by a pontoon-bridge thrown in the night ; other
portions of the army afterwards crossed, and the French
position on the north bank being vigorously assaulted, a fierce
battle raged for a considerable time. Hill with 12,000 men,
cavalry and infantry, had remained before the bridge of Orthes,
waiting for orders to force the passage of the Gave when
a favourable opportunity occurred. At last his opportunity
came : he was unable to force the bridge, but forded the river
above at Souars, drove back the opposing enemy there, and
seized the heights above, cut off the French from the road
to Pau, and thus turned the town of Orthes. He then menaced
Soult's line of retreat by Salespice on the road to St. Sever, and
fell successfully upon his left flank. The Fourteenth shared in
these successful operations of the troops under Lieutenant-
General Sir Rowland Hill. In the result the French were com-
pletely overpowered and driven from the field. They were
pursued by our cavalry and the troops under Lieutenant-General
Sir Rowland Hill for a considerable distance, but ultimately
escaped across the Adour to St. Sever, Ca^eres, and Barcelonne.
In this battle Soult lost 4000 men killed, wounded, and taken Casualties at
prisoners, whilst many thousands of conscripts threw away Orthes-
their arms. The pursuit would have been more vigorous had
not Wellington himself been wounded above the thigh by a
musket-ball which interfered with his riding. The allies lost
2300, of whom 50 with 3 officers were taken prisoners. Besides
Wellington, there were also wounded Lord March, afterwards
Duke of Richmond, as well as Major-Generals Walker and Ross.
Next day, Wellington continued the pursuit in force. On ist
March, Hill seized the magazines at Aire on the Adour, which
river was crossed by the Fourteenth in pursuit on the same
day, and on the following day the regiment was engaged in Combat of
the combat of Aire, when the French were completely repulsed 2
and driven by Sir Rowland Hill's troops from a strong position I8l4>
though fighting with courage and vigour.1 From this point the
enemy retreated unpursued along both banks of the Adour.
1 The above account is taken almost -verbatim from Napier.
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[1814
Sergeant It was here that Sergeant Vernor, Private Craig, and Private
Privates Craig Rose of the Fourteenth, specially distinguished themselves.
Captain
8th March
1814.
As a reward for the gallant conduct of the regiment at the
battle of Orthes, the royal authority was granted in 1820 to
bear on its guidons and appointments the word ' Orthes,' and
the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey,
Bart., received another honorary distinction.
On the night of the 7th of March, Marshal Soult sent a
body of French troops to Pau with the intention of arresting
some nobles, favourable to the house of Bourbon, who were
assembled there to welcome the arrival of the Due d'Angouleme.
Major-General Fane had arrived at Pau with his brigade of
cavalry and a strong force of infantry, thus checkmating this
movement of Marshal Soult' s. The i4th Light Dragoons, with
two guns attached, furnished a strong patrol to Pau on 7th,
anc* on t^ie f°N°wmg day (8th March) fell in with the enemy.
On this occasion Captain Townsend and four privates were
. i
taken prisoners.
In the actions which took place at Aire, 2nd March ; Clarac,
1 4th March ; Vic de Bigorre, i9th March ; Tarbes, 2oth March ;
and also in some other smaller affairs, the I4th Light Dragoons
were engaged with the enemy, and formed the advance-guard
of Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's Corps.
On the 1 3th March, as well as at Clarac on the I4th March,
attacks were made by the enemy ; and General Pierre Soult
with three regiments of French cavalry moved to Clarac, on
the Pau road, to cut off communication with that town and to
threaten the right flank of the allied army. The picquet of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons at Clarac repulsed the enemy on the
morning of the I4th March, when Captain Babington was
unfortunately taken prisoner. On the same evening Captain
taken prisoner. Badcock, with his picquet, was attacked by the whole of the
5th Regiment of French Chasseurs ; he was reinforced by a
squadron under command of Captain Milles, and they kept
their ground until another squadron under Captain Anderson
1 Cannon's Record^ pp. 47 and 48.
Clarac,
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arrived, when the French were repulsed with considerable
loss. Captain Milles was subsequently rewarded with the
brevet rank of Major for his services on this occasion.
On the 1 6th March the Fourteenth greatly distinguished Castei Paget,
themselves in an affair at Castei Paget, where they repulsed an 1814
attack of the enemy.
On 1 8th March the regiment was actively employed in
reconnoitring in different directions : the leading squadron,
under Captain Anderson, was engaged with the enemy on the Affair on the
Lembege road, the French right was turned by the valley
the Adour, and their outposts were driven back upon Lem- l8th March
bege. In this affair Lieutenant William Lyons was killed.1
Captain Milles's squadron was attached to the division vie de
under the command of Lieutenant- General the Honourable igSTiwarch
Sir W. Stewart, and was engaged near Vic de Bigorre on l814'
the 1 9th March.
There is a handsome memorial placed in the porch of the
English church at Biarritz to the officers and men who lost
their lives in the south-west of France during the Peninsular
War. It was erected in 1882, and was visited by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria in 1889. The inscription says that ' Lieu-
tenant William Lyons, i4th (King's) Light Dragoons, and one
soldier of the same regiment were killed at Vic Bigorre on I9th
March 1814.' This is not quite in accordance with Cannon's
Record, which says Lieutenant Lyons fell on the Lembege
road, on the day previously. It is also stated on the Biarritz
memorial that one man of the i4th Light Dragoons was
killed in action on the i3th March. This may possibly
refer to the action at Castei Paget of the i6th March,
recorded by Cannon, or to some other affair on i$th March,
not recorded.
The British army had invested Toulouse on 23rd March, Battle of
but it was not till loth April 1814 that the action which de- ^J April-
cided the surrender of the city was fought. The i4th Light
Dragoons were present in this battle, serving amongst the
1 Cannon's Record^ p. 49.
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troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill in Fane's
brigade of cavalry, and they took part in the operations by
which the French army was driven from its ground.
' On the morning of the i4th April, Hill's Division entered
Toulouse at 8 A.M., when Fane's Brigade of Cavalry filed over
the great bridge and marched straight through the city, amidst
great apparent enthusiasm displayed for the Bourbons and
the British army.'1
Hostilities soon afterwards terminated, and the Emperor
Napoleon had already abdicated in favour of the restoration
of the Bourbon dynasty.
Thus ended, with glory to the British arms, a war in which
the Fourteenth had taken a noble part, and gained seven
honorary distinctions, which have since been inscribed on their
guidons and appointments, viz. —
1 Douro ' — ' Talavera ' — ' Fuentes d'Onor ' — ' Salamanca ' —
' Vittoria ' — ' Orthes ' — ' Peninsula.'
After leaving Toulouse the Fourteenth marched in brigade
with the 1 3th Light Dragoons towards Mont-de-Marsan, where
they arrived on 3Oth April, and remained for a short time in
quarters preparatory to their return to England.
The following copy of the War Office roll of the officers
and men of the i4th Light Dragoons, who were among the
recipients of the war medal and clasps for the Peninsular
campaign, given in the year 1848 by Her Majesty Queen
Victoria to the survivors of the wars, was kindly supplied for
this book by Major- General the Honourable Herbert Eaton,
late Grenadier Guards.
In the list of the officers the rank given below their names
is that they held at the time the medals were given in 1848 ;
the other rank (placed immediately after their names) is the
rank they held when serving in the Peninsula.
1 De Ainslie's Royal Dragoons, p. 144.
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ROLL OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 14x11 LIGHT DRAGOONS who
were Recipients of the Medal given in 1848 by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria to the Survivors of the Wars.
OFFICERS OF 14x11 REGIMENT LIGHT DRAGOONS
RANK AND NAME.
Corunna.
Talavera.
Busaco.
Fuentes d'Onor.
Badajos.
Salamanca.
Vittoria.
Pyrenees.
Nivelle.
$
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1 Orthes.
Toulouse.
Jones, William, Captain, .
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Captain H.P. 52nd.
Rofe, Samuel, Paymaster, .
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Southwell, Hon. A. F., Lieutenant, .
Lieut.-Colonel H.P. unattached.
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Sheil, Theodore, Lt., ....
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Thursby, John Harvey, Lt.,
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Thomson, Robt., Vet. Surgeon, .
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Thompson, S. Perronet, Lieutenant,
Lieut.-Colonel unattached.
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Widner, Christopher, Asst. Surgeon,
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Staff Surgeon unattached.
Wainman, William, Captain,
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Late Brevet-Major.
Wandesford, Hon. C. H. Butler,Major,
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Late Hon. C. H. Butler.
Anderson, F., Captain,
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Late Captain.
Babington, John, Captain,
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Late Lieut.-Colonel.
Cust, Hon. Sir Edward, Lieutenant, .
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Lieut.-Colonel unattached.
Clifton, Thomas, Cornet and Lieut., .
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Douglas, Archibald, Lieutenant,
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Late Lieutenant.
Davies, Daniel Owen, Asst. Surgeon,
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Surgeon H.P. i8th Foot.1
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Foster, Augustus, Lieutenant, .
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Late Captain.
Gwynne, S., Lieutenant, .
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Hawker, Peter, Captain, .
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Lieut.-Colonel.
Humphreys, Charles E., Lieutenant,
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Lieutenant H.P.
1 Barrossa, in i8th Foot.
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Giles, John, ....
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Nicholas, Thomas,
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Wheeler, Benjamin,
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Brown, Francis,
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Benson, Robert,
Bitner John, . . •
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Chambers, Thomas,
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Colley, Robert,
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Dry, William,
Capt. Badcock,
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Darling, John,
Capt. Milne, .
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Dakin or Deakin, John,
Capt. Badcock,
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Elvey, James,
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Elliott, Elias,
Capt. Townsend, .
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Day, Joseph,
Capt. Mills, .
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Fairbairn, And.,
Capt. Badcock,
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Frake, James,
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Fisher, George,
Capt. Maerman, .
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Forbes, Matthew, .
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Hughes, John, Troop Sergt. -
Major, ....
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Hallett, Joseph,
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Hainso, John,
F troop,
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Jackson, Will.,
Hon. Capt. Capel, .
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Kinghorn, L. Clark,
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Mannering, Henry,
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Manton, John,
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M'Kay, James,
Capt. Knipe, .
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G troop,
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Reeves, Joseph,
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Randell, John,
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Noris, Thomas,
2nd troop,
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Silvester, James,
Capt. Brotherton,
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Stone, John, .
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Tilley, George,
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Wells, Jas., Trumpeter,
D troop,
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Clifford, Thos., Sergt, .
Lt-Col. Hervey, .
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Giles, Joseph,
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Harrington, Joseph,
Capt. Babington, .
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Morris, Thos., Sergt, .
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Smith, John, Sergt.,
Capt. Neville,
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Shepherd, Sam.,
Smith, Will, ....
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Capt. Neville,
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Capt. Sterling,
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1 Corunna, in royal wagon-train.
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Shippey, Thos., Sergt., .
Capt. Sterling
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Sactidge, John,
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Smith, Joshua,
Capt Deymont,
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Story, Joseph,
Capt. Sterling,
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Sims, Isaac, .
Capt. Townsend, .
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"uck, John, ....
Capt. Neville,
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Topper, Will.,
Capt. Baker, .
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Verner, Alex., Sergt-Major, .
Capt. Badcock,
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Trower, Will.,
Capt. Kepple,
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Worvall, John,
Capt. Baker, .
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Waddell, Sam.,
Capt. Badcock,
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Wooland, Ed.,
Capt. Townsend, .
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Capt Hawker,
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Walton, Isaac,
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Westbrook, James,
Capt. Mills, .
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Walter, Robert,
Capt. Smith, .
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Wilson, John, Trumpeter,
Capt Mills, .
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Young, Jas., ....
Capt. Harvey,
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Yates, Jas., ....
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Capt. Chapman, .
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Capt. Brotherton, .
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Capt. Neville,
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Capt. Knight,
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Capt. Neville,
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Stone, Thos., .
Capt. Capell, .
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Capt. Badcock,
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Capt. Hawker,
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Capt. Knightley, .
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Capt. Townsend, .
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Lomas, Charles,
Capt. Hawker,
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Lane, Richard,
Capt. Brotherton, .
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Measey, James,
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Capt. Knightley, . i i i
Middleton, Roland,
Capt. Neville, . i i
Massey, Joseph,
Capt. Mills, . . i
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Montague, John, L.-Segt.,
Capt. Brotherton, . i I I i i
Marshall, John,
Capt. Milles, . . j i i i
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Milles, Henry,
Capt. Badcock,
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Mackall, Dan., Corp., .
Capt. Babington, . i i i i
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Mouldy, Wm.,
Capt. Mills, . . ill i
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Mantle, Wm.,
Captain Mahoney, . i I
Manning, Chas., .
Capt. Chapman, . i i i i
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Capt. Mills, . . i i i i i
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Duell, Thos., .
Capt. Brotherton, . i
Darbyshire, Jas., .
Capt. Babington, . i i
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Capt. Baker, . . i i i i
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Hay clock, Abraham,
Capt. Wainman, . i i i
Harrison, George, .
Capt. Knight, . I i
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Hussey, Thorn.,
Capt. Anderson, . i i i i
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Ivalts, Henry, Sergt, .
Capt. Chapman, . i i i i i
fackson, Ab.,
Capt. Badcock, . i i i i i
[effery, Rob., ....
Capt. Brotherton, . i i
fevons, Chas.,
Capt. Babington, . i i i i i
Hendley, Chas.,
Capt. Knight, . i
Allen, George,
Capt. Mills, .
Allen, John, Sergt.,
Capt. Chapman, . i i i i
Anstead, Jas.,
Capt. Neville, I I i
Arcote, Dan., ....
Capt. Wainman, . i
Bayliss, Thorn.,
Capt. Badcock,
Bevan, Will., ....
Capt. Townsend, .
Branch, Will.,
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Capt Brotherton,
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Capt. Baker, .
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Cannon in his Record of the i^th Light Dragoons (p. 50) Cannon's en-
says :— ' The i4th (Duchess of York's Own Regiment of Light
Dragoons) had acquired a high reputation for the excellent
esprit-de-corps which pervaded the ranks, and especially for the
superior style in which the officers and soldiers had, during
several years, performed the duties of picquets, patrols, vedettes,
and other services which devolve upon a corps employed in the
outpost duty.'
The Fourteenth, under Captain Milles's command, as Lieu- Regiment
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tenant-Colonel Hervey had obtained leave of absence, remained
in quarters at Mont-de-Marsan a short time, and marched
on 1 4th May to Bordeaux, where they were reviewed by Major-
General Lord Dalhousie, who highly complimented them for
their appearance, discipline, and fitness for further service.
The Fourteenth had been selected, owing to their great repu-
tation acquired in the Peninsular War, from among the other
cavalry corps for service in the United States of America; but
.
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Regiment this order was subsequently countermanded for the present,
Calais for*1 and on the icth June they marched from Bordeaux en route
ui1' 181 to Calais, where they embarked on the i5th July and sailed on
the 1 6th for England.
Two troops had remained in England in 1808, and 2
troops had embarked at Lisbon in December 1811, arriving at
Portsmouth on the 8th January 1812, and joined the depot.
Six troops landed at Dover on the I7th July and marched to
the neighbourhood of London.
On the 21 st July the Commander-in-Chief, H.R.H. the Duke
of York, reviewed 3 squadrons of the regiment on Hounslow
Heath, and was pleased to compliment Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey,
Bart., on the appearance and efficiency of the several troops.
At the inspection, Cannon relates how the Duke of York
said to Colonel Hervey, ' They appear as if they had never
been on service.' After the review the 3 service squadrons
joined the dep6t at Weymouth, and were quartered there in
Radipole Barracks.
During the five and a half years the regiment had been on
foreign service, the non-effectives, including men invalided and
sent home, and including horses cast and sold were : 654 men,
1564 troop horses.
MEN : — Embarked with regiment . . 770
Sent from depot to Peninsula . . 445
Total . . . 1215
Non-effectives .... 654]
Returned with regiment . . 561]
HORSES: — Embarked with regiment . . 720
Remounts ...... 664
Received from other corps . . . 381
Taken from the enemy .... 63
Spanish ...... 14
Total . . . 1842
Non-effectives . . . . 1564]
Returned to England -\ »**.•• . 278) l
The Fourteenth had been on service with the army of the
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Peninsula under the command of the Duke of Wellington from Recruiting of
23rd December 1808 to i;th July 1814. Since leaving Ireland
in 1795 the recruits had been obtained principally by aid ofl8l4>
parties detached from the regiment to the counties of Worcester,
Warwick, Salop, and Berks, with some volunteers received from
the Fencible Cavalry in 1800, and from the Royal Wagon
Train in 1810. It should be mentioned here that the veterinary
surgeon of the Fourteenth, who had held that position since
1 80 1, was Mr. Robert Thompson, and he was succeeded by
Veterinary Surgeon Alexander Black on icth November 1814.
Before closing the records of the Fourteenth in the Peninsular
War, there are some further interesting anecdotes, written General
by General Sir T. W. Brotherton, having reference to his anecdotes" S
experiences with the regiment during this eventful period,
which may fittingly find a place here.
ANECDOTES RELATED BY GENERAL BROTHERTON, RELATIVE TO
EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED IN THE PENINSULA WHEN SERVING
IN THE I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, 1808 TO 1814.
i. 'No army becomes more disorganised and unmanage- Retreat,
able, on a retreat, than a British army ! We had several
deplorable examples of this in the Peninsula. Sir John
Moore's retreat was the first. I did not belong to this army,
but witnessed its disastrous retreat, being then attached to the
Spanish General Marquis de la Romana, when he separated
from Sir John Moore the 22nd December 1808, at which time
" Corunna Races," as this retreat is appropriately called, com-
menced. It would be endless to enumerate all that came under
my notice on this occasion, besides the hardships that I per-
sonally experienced in the rapid and incessant retreat that
Romana's army had to make, before the French corps detached
to pursue it. I lost my health through it, and I think was only
saved from death by Romana's excessive kindness to me, in
literally sharing with me all his comforts. I lived with him,
and when I could not get a separate comfortable quarter, he
made me sleep in his own room ! He was a delightful fellow,
and the only Spanish general that the Duke speaks highly of,
160 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1814
not so much for ability as for integrity and devotedness. He
was the man who brought the Spanish army from the north of
Germany by stratagem, where they had been most cunningly
sent by Napoleon for fear of defection.
Risk of 2. 'The soldier who pretends that he never felt fear, is a
hanging. humbug not to be believed. It is his duty to conceal his
feelings as much as possible, however. But there are situations
in war so trying to the nerves that the stoutest must feel
appalled. I never felt so nervous as I did when I ran the risk
of being hanged as well as run through the body ! I was with
'the Spanish General, the Marquis de la Romana, in Galicia,
just after his separation from Sir John Moore, and, although
our daily operations consisted only in running away whenever
the enemy appeared, the Marquis had thought proper to get
manifestoes printed in French, German, Italian, and Spanish,
to be distributed amongst the French army to seduce them to
desert. The Marshal, Soult, who was following us, highly
indignant at this proceeding, which had already caused much
desertion from his army, proclaimed that he would hang the
first person "that was taken circulating these papers. One day
that we were, as usual, running away from the enemy, I lingered
behind with my orderly dragoon, the better to observe the
enemy's numbers and intentions, trusting to my good English
horse to get away. Accordingly, I remained dismounted till
the very last moment, and allowed a few French dragoons to
come into the very field where I was, well knowing that, by
jumping my horse over one of the stone walls (with which that
part of the country is enclosed), I could always bid defiance to
them. But they chased me, and having my pockets full of the
proclamation above alluded to, I was desirous of getting rid of
them, in case of accidents, and, passing by a ditch, I took them
out of my pocket, and tried to throw them into the ditch. It
happened, however, to be a very high wind, and they were
scattered wide and afar, and picked up by the French. I
confess that a thrill of dread ran through my veins, which no
danger in action could have produced, perhaps, for to be taken
1814] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 161
prisoner, and hanged into the bargain, was a contingency of
war which I had never contemplated. I escaped, however,
with ease, owing to my being so well mounted, but never again
carried any such papers about me.
3. 'When Lord Wellington's headquarters were at Govea, RidetoGovea.
in the north of Portugal, near Castello Branco, and the enemy
close thereto, in superior numbers, menacing to enter Portugal
again, the i4th Light Dragoons and ist German Hussars
were in front watching the enemy, who, making a sudden
movement in advance (in the middle of the night, in order to
conceal it from us), but which movement, if not counteracted by
a counter movement on the part of our army, would have com-
promised its safety, it became urgent that Lord Wellington
should be as quickly as possible apprised of it. I was selected
to proceed, as quickly as possible, to his headquarters, eight
leagues off. I started on one of my own horses to perform this
duty, and naturally chose my best horse, a thoroughbred one
of great value, which my father had just sent me out from
England, having bought him, a colt, at the sale of the King's
stud, and broke him in himself, which rendered him of additional
value to me. I was obliged to urge him, to perform my im-
portant mission, to such a pitch that he dropped under me,
when I had reached only half-way to my destination, and I had
to get a troop-horse from a cavalry regiment on the road, to
conclude my journey, which nearly killed him also. I reached
Lord Wellington's headquarters early in the morning, still dark.
They were situated in an old convent ; not a soul stirring in
the place except the sentry pacing before the gate, who was not
a little surprised at my dismounting and knocking loudly at the
gate to obtain admittance, which I did with great difficulty and
a long delay, and then I had to go on my way in the dark to
one of the bedrooms, where I found one of the aides-de-camp
(the late General Fremantle),1 and, upon telling him my
1 Afterwards Major-General Fremantle, C.B., who brought home the Duke's
despatches from Vittoria and Orthes, as well as the French colours and Marshal
Jourdain's baton captured at Vittoria. Captain Fremantle became Adjutant of the
Coldstream Guards after the battle of Talavera, and was aide-de-camp to the Duke
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business (not at first being aware of its extreme urgency), he
hesitated as to going to wake Lord Wellington, who, he said,
had retired to bed very tired, and in very ill-humour. I said
that if I were obliged myself to open the door of his bedroom
and wake him, to deliver my message, I must do so, if he would
point it out to me. Fremantle persisting in his refusal to
wake Lord Wellington, I actually, myself, went and knocked
at the door, and on being admitted, and having delivered
my message, Lord Wellington told me to go immediately to
Sir George Murray's room (the Quartermaster-General) and
bring him instantly with me to his room. All was immediately
bustle and stir, orderlies and aides-de-camp despatched in
every direction, and a general movement of the army ordered.
It was a most critical moment, and if Lord Wellington had
not been apprised of the enemy's movement, to counteract it,
our army would have been turned at Castello Branco, the key
of Portugal on that side.
1 The only compensation I received for my valuable horse
was ^35, the mere regulation compensation. The present
Lord Londonderry had offered me 300 guineas for him. I
would add that what accounts for Fremantle's scruples about
waking Lord Wellington, is the notorious fact that his aides-
de-camp and those about him were all afraid of him.
A Monk's 4- ' However justifiable it might seem that the Spanish and
Portuguese peasantry should retaliate, revengefully, on the
French soldiery for their excessive cruelty and plundering, and
though one could not blame them for it or check it altogether,
yet, I confess, that to witness their clergy joining in these
murderous retaliations was revolting, owing to their sacred
character. I happened, one day when detached in Portugal
to watch the movements of a French column that was winding
its way through a most precipitous and rocky part of country,
to observe a monk in his ecclesiastical costume (a jolly fellow,
resembling Sir Walter Scott's " Friar Tuck," both in character
of Wellington, 1812-16. The latter took him to the Congress of Vienna as he could
talk German. He was much liked by the Duke, and probably feared him less than
the others. General Sir Arthur J. Lyon Fremantle, G.C.M.G., C.B., is his son.
1814] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 163
and dress), ensconced securely behind a rock, elevated above
the road along which the French were marching, whence he
could, and did, deliberately take deadly aim at individual French
officers and soldiers. He knocked half a dozen over in my
presence, and seemed vastly to enjoy the sport, and uttered a
ferocious exclamation of joy at each victim he laid low ; whilst
he, as I before said, was in perfect safety behind an inaccessible
rock, for the French had not time to dislodge him. The
peasantry around gave a wild and ferocious cheer at each deadly
shot ! However, making every allowance for due revenge, I
could not help upbraiding this rascally monk, and I did so on
the ground that he was committing a cowardly act, when in
perfect safety himself, thus to butcher human creatures, for,
after all, nothing can justify, even in war, taking the life of an
enemy except in defence of your own. This sanctified character
was, however, not only callous to my remonstrances, but even
insolent, which I could not resent owing to his sacred character,
and the blind veneration of the people in this country, even for
the crimes and immorality of their priests.
5. 'On Massena's retreat, one day, on following one of French
their last columns closely, we espied something stuck at the
end of one of the men's bayonets, which we at first took to be
a loaf of bread, carried as French soldiers usually carry their
ration bread, but what was our horror on approaching nearer
to find it was a small infant ! Incredible atrocity, but too true !
The first opportunity we had of communicating verbally with
French officers we spoke to them of this revolting fact. They
did not deny it, but said it was the deed of an Italian and not
a French soldier ! What an excuse for such an act, as if every
soldier in an army was not equally responsible for such bar-
barities, or, at least, for not preventing them.
6. ' When we were following the enemy towards the Un
Pyrenees we, one day about noon, came up to a bivouac which ™
he had just left. I happened to be in the advance, and on
approaching the bivouac, which I expected to find quite
abandoned, I heard some loud cries in it, without at first
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perceiving whence they immediately proceeded. On nearer
examination I beheld a man strapped to the stem of a large
chestnut-tree, who was roaring most lustily, expecting, I suppose,
we should kill him. On approaching nearer I found it to be
a negro, and there was a placard, in large letters, over his head
with these words, "Cest un mauvais cuisinier." I asked the
fellow to explain, and he said he was cook to a French officers'
mess of the 53feme de Ligne, "que les messieurs etaient ce
matin de tres mauvaise humeur non pas parceque j'ai mal
accomode le diner mais parceque messieurs les anglais ne
leur avaient pas donne le temps de le manger et ils m'ont ainsi
traite si brutalement ! " We naturally thought that no real
good cook would have been thus treated, as, in these hard times,
such an individual was a precious personage, and we hardly
thought it worth trying him. We did, however, and found him
an excellent one, but, on the first favourable opportunity, he
decamped to the enemy again.
Three hundred 7. ' The longest ride I ever took, without stopping, was
miles'1 ride with from St. Jean de Luz to Madrid, 95 Spanish leagues (380
despatches. English miles). I carried despatches from the Duke of
Wellington to the British Ambassador at Madrid, Sir Henry
Wellesley, and there were relays of horses ready all the way
for me. The most inconvenient and irksome part of the
business was that I rode in uniform, and with that most cumber-
some of all head-dresses, the bearskin helmet of the British
Light Cavalry, at that time. This dress to me was particularly
uncomfortable to ride such a distance in, in very hot weather
(month of May), as I had been prisoner of war and laid up
with wounds since i3th of December, and was quite unaccus-
tomed to such paraphernalia.
Extraordinary 8. ' On a foraging party, in France, at the end of the year
1813, after we had got our forage and were reposing on it,
some French peasantry were firing at us, but at such a con-
siderable distance as hardly worth noticing, and here and there
a spent ball alighted on us. We were much fatigued, and lying
on the bundles of hay which we had foraged in the surrounding
country. The orderly dragoon, who was holding my horse
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and himself lying down, suddenly started up and cried out,
" I am wounded ! " As he happened to be one of those who
are always well known to their comrades, after a few campaigns,
as rather nervous, no one attended to him, or believed him, but
he kept calling out that he was very much hurt, holding his
hand over his right eye. Knowing the man myself as not
worth much, I thought he was making much ado about nothing,
and on making him take his hand off his eye, with much
difficulty, and perceiving no blood, I felt confirmed in the idea
that he was more frightened than hurt. I sent him, however,
to the rear, and his wound proved to be not only a most extra-
ordinary one but a fatal one. A spent ball had entered the
corner of the eye, turned the ball of the eye in its socket with-
out producing a drop of blood, and was taken out at the roof
of his mouth. He died of inflammation in forty-eight hours.
9. 'Nothing could equal the confidence the army felt in confidence in
Lord Wellington. It was to such a pitch that if it was occa-
sionally separated from him it felt uneasy, for though we had
many brave and good generals amongst us, they were, by
comparison with him, so immeasurably inferior, in our estima-
tion, that we used to apply to him the famous turf story about
the racer " Eclipse," whose owner won an immense stake, at
Salisbury races, by taking immense odds that he would not
place every horse in a sweepstake, which he did, and won, by
placing " Eclipse " first and all the rest of the horses distanced.
So it was Lord Wellington might be placed, distancing all
generals, either of our own army or of others to which he was
opposed. Civilians, in those days, used frequently to put the
question to us — who we thought ought to replace Lord Wellington
if by any chance he were killed or wounded ? We were at a
loss to answer this question, as we knew of none equal to
succeed to such a man, and we were inclined to reply to it by
the well-known exclamation of the French soldiers, on the day
upon which Turenne was killed by a cannon-shot, and doubt
and discussions arose amongst the troops, in the heat of action,
as to the man most proper to succeed him in the command.
He, like our chief, had long ridden a favourite horse in all his
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battles, as Wellington did his favourite " Copenhagen," and, as
the army had no very high opinion of the officer entitled, by
seniority, to succeed Turenne, they exclaimed, " Donnez-nous
son cheval ; il nous menera a la victoire !" Turenne was beloved
by his soldiers. Wellington was feared, but esteemed most
highly. He had no winning ways with him, such as are
recorded of Turenne and Napoleon, and, above all, he never
made speeches to them as Napoleon did, nor did he ever utter
those few words attributed to him at the crisis of the battle of
Waterloo, "Up, Guards, and at them ! " And as to apostro-
phising the Pyramids, as Buonaparte did on the field of battle
in Egypt, with the famous speech of which the French are so
proud, viz., "Soldats du haut de ces Pyramides vingt Siecles
vous regardent ! " — why, our soldiers, instead of being moved
by such trash, would have called out "Fudge!" They want
no such "blarney" to make them fight, and the less you say
to them at such moments, the better. Nothing more than the
caution "Steady" is seldom, if ever, wanted in action with
British soldiers. Wellington knew this.
The Duke's IO. 'The severity and peremptoriness of the Duke of
SCVCrC QIC. • •
cipiine. Wellington's discipline, on first entering France, was such, that
I one day saw a Spanish soldier in the hands of the Provost-
Marshal (the executioner of military justice), leading him to
execution, i.e. to be hanged on the nearest tree. He seemed
to be a fine fellow, with little fear of death at such an awful
moment, but only indignant that he should suffer death merely
for having taken a fowl out of a farmyard, when he, as he
said, had had his father and his mother bayonetted by French
soldiers, his sister violated, and his home burnt by them,
merely for having joined in the patriotic defence of his country.
He was a fine fellow, and his deportment and demeanour on
the verge of death was noble. It touched me much, and I
would have given the world to have saved him the ignominious
sort of death that he was to suffer, for his chief horror seemed
not so much the fear of death itself %s the mode of it, beseeching
as a favour to be shot as a soldier, but not hanged as a felon.
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But I knew too well the sternness and peremptoriness of Lord
Wellington to presume to interfere. I could not, however
bear to see him executed, and turned away from such a dreadful
sight.
'When in Spain, robbing the beehives of the peasants
was a frequent offence, in- spite of Lord Wellington's repeated
admonitions and reprimands, and honey was one of the chief
profits of the Spanish farmers in some parts. All Lord
Wellington's endeavours to stop these depredations having
failed, he had recourse to the expedient of keeping whole
divisions of the army in which such thefts had been committed
"under arms" for days together, sometimes till the delinquent
was discovered. This fell hard upon the innocent, and did not
often lead to the detection of the thieves.
ii.' The Duke of Wellington, when in the south of France, The Duke's
anxious to conciliate the inhabitants, and particularly the Awarded5.
authorities, received a letter from the Mayor of a village
complaining of his favourite horse having been stolen by some
of our people. The Duke returned a most polite and lengthy
reply, which is recorded in his despatches. The French
criticised and ridiculed the Duke for paying so much attention
to this Mayor's complaint, and called it une niaiserie. But the
Duke never wrote a letter which proved of greater advantage
to him. This Mayor was a most influential person in his
district, and was so pleased at the Duke's condescension, that
in times of great scarcity of provisions and forage he exerted
himself, in a most extraordinary way, to feed our troops.
12.' Amateurs, as they are called in the field, are a descrip- Amateurs in
tion of animal voted a great bore by real soldiers. Theyac
consisted of idle gentlemen who must needs try to show their
pluck by poking their noses into danger in action (where they
had no business to be), till it became too serious to be pleasant,
when they immediately decamped, and became objects of
derision. They had failed to ascertain the extent of their
nerves. In this respect these said amateurs differed essentially
from the volunteers we had with the army, who always reck-
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lessly exposed themselves, in order to render themselves con-
spicuous, as their object was to get commissions given to them
without purchase. The largest proportion of these volunteers
were killed, but those who escaped were well rewarded for
their adventurous spirit. I have said that these amateurs were
great bores in the field, and I will mention one glaring instance
in the person of a distinguished sailor, though, in one respect,
he was a. brilliant exception to the faults of other amateurs, for
when I mention his name, every one will know that he is the
bravest of the brave — Admiral Sir Charles Napier. This
distinguished man joined me whilst I was commanding the
skirmishers of the rearguard, the day before we retreated on
to the position of Busaco. He was most fantastically dressed
in his sailor's dress, with a cutlass by his side, a brace of pistols
at his waist, etc., looking a strange fellow. I need not say that
he was all day amongst the foremost, but not content with this,
he was urging me every moment to charge everything before
me ; but as I knew my business well, and as doing what he
wished would have been contrary to all rule, and orders of
Lord Wellington, I told him good-humouredly that he was a
bore, and that if he were to go on this way we should realise
the Irish story of the " Kilkenny cats," who fought so des-
perately and perpetually amongst themselves that they were
all killed on both sides. Luckily he just after was wounded,
and went to the rear, and to my great delight I got rid of him,
but was glad he was not seriously wounded. There were four
Napiers in the field at the battle of Busaco. Sir Charles, the
one I have just spoken of, and his three cousins : — Sir Charles,
the lamented man just dead ; the present Sir William ; and
last, the present Sir George, three brothers heroically brave.
The bravery of this family has always been proverbial, and
seems hereditary. It was one of their ancestors who invented
logarithms. But we unfortunately had a far different race of
amateurs from the rare specimen I have just adduced in
Charles Napier, the sailor, and though one would wish to be
charitable towards these would-be heroes, yet I must say they
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were a great nuisance to the army. These foolhardy gentle-
men— who could never be pitied if they got killed or wounded,
for having " run into any kind of danger " which they were not
bound to encounter, and which appeared to us a sort of vain-
glorious vanity, whereas with us it was a positive duty — were a
numerous class who only contributed to eat our provisions when
scarce, but who suddenly disappeared when things became
serious and unpleasant. Mr. L , whose posthumous
memoirs have lately, most injudiciously, been published, was
officially employed with the army in the Peninsula, as Deputy-
Judge-Advocate. His functions were confined strictly to the
closet, and he had no business whatever ever to poke his nose
in danger, yet this civfl functionary relates the "dangers he
had passed," and seems to be proud of them ; but he was also
a specimen of the genus amateur. As this gentleman has
thought proper, cursorily, to introduce my name in his memoirs,
and in a manner a propos to the amateur mania, I will just
elucidate this subject by a case in point, in which Mr. L—
is concerned :—
' He thought fit to come out to the front when some fighting
was going on, and happened to hear me exhorting some noble
fellows of the Basque peasantry, who were enthusiastic in our
favour, but only armed with sticks and scythes, not to expose
themselves in this reckless manner, as the French cavalry, with
which I was engaged, might occasionally drive us back, and
cut up these brave peasants. Mr. L very readily took the
hint as applying equally to his own precious person, and
retreated. But I could not resist the temptation of giving this
"quill-driver" my opinion, not only as to the folly of such
persons coming, ostentatiously, to the front, but as to the
mischievous effect on the morale of troops, by their precipitate
retreat when they became frightened, for, though the soldiers
heartily laughed at these amateurs, yet, at such moments, any-
thing that diverts the attention of troops from what ought to be
their only object, viz. "the enemy," is hazardous.
' Mr. L 's stories of his own adventures are perfectly
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Value of
guerillas.
French
matrimonial
ideas.
absurd, except where his stomach was concerned, and he is then
most in earnest.
1 3. 'The guerillas were certainly of great assistance to us, and
of great annoyance to the enemy, harassing them continually, but
in battles they were of little use. They are a very similar force
to the Cossacks, and it may be said of them, as Segur said of
the latter, "Us ont beaucoup d'audace mais point de bravoure."
1 4. ' French officers are not very scrupulous as to matri-
mony. A Spanish lady, at Valladolid, who had a beautiful niece
living with her, told me that the aide-de-camp of a French
general who was quartered in her house, courted this niece, and
proposed marriage. The aunt inquired of the general the char-
acter of his A.D.C., when the former said : — " I can assure you,
madam, that my A.D.C. cannot fail to make a good husband,
having had much experience in that line, for, to my certain
knowledge, he has married in every town we came to, in Spain,
for the last three years." ! ! !
15. 'Some fulsome French flatterer, who had probably just
before licked the dust off Napoleon's feet, said to the Emperor
of Russia, just after he entered Paris as a conqueror, on showing
him the letter " N," which in compliment to Napoleon had
been put on all the public monuments and buildings, "Sire, il
avait des ennemis partout" (i.e. "des N mis" partout), " Vous,
Sire, aurez des amis partout" (i.e. "des A mis" partout).
' The famous antique horses plundered from Venice by the
French were placed on the triumphal arch at the Tuileries,
and there was a chariot attached to them, but no human figure
in it, and it was currently understood that, some day, when he
expected to have completed his conquests, he (Napoleon)
intended his own statue to have been placed there. Another
fulsome French flatterer said to the Emperor of Russia, who
observed there being no figure in the chariot, " Napoleon,
Le charlatan " (i.e. "Le char I' attend").
Single combat. 1 6. 'In reference to the event described in General Mac-
donald's letter, I must observe that, although it has been my lot
to have been engaged in several single combats in the field,
Parisian puns
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during the Peninsular War, yet they were never of my own seek-
ing, but that I was provoked to them by the braggadocio manner
of the French officers ; for I hold it to be very bad taste and
feeling to engage designedly in these single combats, which in a
mdle'e are unavoidable. War would indeed be more horrible
than it is if such individual hostilities were encouraged, which
were only suited to a barbarous age. For the sake of example,
an officer cannot well decline a challenge to single combat
offered in the bullying manner with which the officer command-
ing the French regiment of Dragoons bore himself towards me
on this occasion. Generally, the skirmishing of the cavalry in
the Peninsula used to be carried on in the most chivalrous
manner, I had almost said amicable manner, sometimes even
the officers of both parties shaking hands before commencing ;
and often have we drank a glass of wine together after the
day's fight was over !
1 In this instance there was a coarse, bullying manner in the
French officer which made me wish to chastise him, but I was
on a very small Spanish horse, not much higher than fourteen
hands, whilst he was, in all points, a formidable antagonist, in
appearance, mounted on an immense horse — a very large,
powerful man himself, with an immense fur cap — in short,
looking as savage as a dragoon could look. My own men and
General (then Captain) tried to dissuade me from en-
countering this Goliath, but I could not stand his taunts, and
rode at him on my little charger, intending to equalise the
combat through the agility of my little horse, in compensation
for the great weight of my antagonist. He did not, however,
wait for me, but, just before I came up to him, he turned his
horse and retired amidst the yells and hisses, not only of my
own men and the British officers present, but of his own men
also, and, although I found myself alone amongst the latter, not
only did they not attempt to cut at me or even to interrupt
my return to my own troops, but showed me every mark of
respect and approval of my conduct, by cheering me and
waving their swords.
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[1814
Horses shot
under me.
Shifts of
cowards.
Making an
example in
action.
' Sir Andrew Leith Hay, in his book, describes a very
different affair of this sort, in which I was engaged, and in
which I met a most chivalrous, fine young fellow of a French
officer, and I have never ceased to lament having wounded
him so seriously as to have caused his death, but in this
instance, likewise, I have the consolation that it was not of my
own seeking, but a determined challenge on the part of my
opponent in front of the line of battle.
' This alone can, in my opinion, excuse a single combat in
war, or its being accidental in a metie.
17. 'I had nine horses shot under me during the Peninsular
War. This is not a great number considering the constant
exposure to fire. When a horse has once been hit by musketry,
ever after he trembles under fire, as if by instinct. It may be
my fancy, but I have always thought I perceived this.
1 8. ' In a regiment which has been long in the field, and
frequently in action, not only are the officers well known by
the men, but every individual is known to each other, recipro-
cally. Thus I knew to a nicety what each officer and private
in the I4th Light Dragoons was worth, and what he was fit for.
One of the indifferent ones in action, well known to his com-
rades as such, in my squadron, being one day in the front rank,
when we were advancing to charge a French squadron opposite
to us, cut his horse's head almost in two at the moment he
thought we were about to come in contact with the enemy.
The enemy, however, turned just before we reached him, thus
exposing the man's trick.
19. 'It was once reported to me, when we were formed up
and exposed to a severe fire, that a man in my squadron had
exclaimed — " This is murder, it is too bad to leave us here."
As this speech was calculated to dishearten the men, I thought
it advisable to make an example of the man at the moment,
instead of bringing him to trial afterwards, and I called him out
of the ranks and took him to the most exposed spot I could
find, where I thought a cat with nine lives could not live for a
minute. I left him there, and told him to stop there as a
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vedette. The balls fell thick about him, but he escaped them
all as if by a miracle, whilst his comrades in the ranks fell fast.
Such is the fatality in action, verifying the soldier's saying,
" Every bullet has its billet." To my great disappointment
this cowardly rascal escaped unhurt. The proceeding, how-
ever, had its desired effect, for the men seemed delighted
at it.
20. 'In one of our sharpest skirmishes it was reported to chastising a
me, by one of the men, that a sergeant was showing a very bad sku11
example, and, instead of exposing himself, like others, to the
fire of the enemy, he was skulking repeatedly behind the large
cork trees, and on my notice being directed towards one of
these trees I saw the sergeant hiding himself behind. In the
moment of indignation I rode up to him, and licked him as
long as I could stand over him, with the flat of my sabre, and
ordered him out of the field.
' After this chastisement, I could not have tried him by
a court-martial for cowardice, but I might myself, if he had
chosen to come forward against me, have got into a scrape,
for the proceeding on my part was certainly hasty and irregular,
but he knew too well that if he complained, although I might
have been reprimanded, he would have been the more shame-
fully exposed.
' He asked for his discharge, and left the regiment.
' After leaving the service, one might have supposed that
this man would have shown spite and revenge, but he felt
conscious that the infliction of the punishment was merited,
for I met him often, after our return to England, in the streets
of London, when he always saluted me most respectfully. He
had become a schoolmaster, and was well qualified for the
situation, as he was an excellent scholar.
21. ' On the occasion of erecting a monument to one of my Risking life
old comrades, Colonel Townsend1 of the i4th Light Dragoons,
and introducing on it the Prussian Eagle on the helmet, which
the Fourteenth wore in those days, because the regiment was the
1 Colonel Townsend died in Ireland in 1845.
i74 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1814
" Duchess of York's Own " (who was a Prussian princess), I
am reminded of a curious little incident which occurred to me
through wearing this regimental badge.
'When attached to the Spanish General, the Marquis de
la Romana, in Galicia, just after he had separated from Sir
John Moore, I was one day traversing a narrow defile, with
my orderly dragoon behind me, when I was suddenly assailed
by a volley from half a dozen muskets, which wounded my
orderly's horse, and one ball went through my helmet without
hurting me. Being in a part of the country where I knew the
peasantry to be friendly to our cause, and hostile to the French,
I was at a loss to account for this extraordinary proceeding,
seeing at the time the peasants on the top of a rock, who had
fired at me. In a moment after, however, I was surrounded
by several hundreds of these armed peasants and ferociously
assailed by them, seemingly with a determination to despatch
myself and my orderly.
' I was at this period but little acquainted with the Spanish
language, as this occurred at the end of 1808, and we had
not then been long in the country, but I could understand
sufficiently to know that the eagle on our helmets was the
cause of it all. They mistook it for the French eagle, to which
it is very similar, and had it not been for a friar who was
amongst these peasants, and armed as they were, and apparently
their leader, we should probably in one more instant have
been sacrificed by this infuriated rabble. Fortunately he
spoke French, and on my explaining to him that I was an
English officer, and that the eagle was the Prussian eagle
and not the French, he, though with some difficulty, persuaded
the peasants of the fact, and we were released and allowed to
proceed.
Never had I a narrower escape than on this occasion.
Guns and pikes, etc etc., were put close to my body with
a view of putting an end to me, and my orderly dragoon, a
fine, brave fellow, was so exasperated at seeing me thus in
peril, that he made the matter worse, and nearly caused my
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instantaneous death, by drawing his sabre and cutting right
and left at my assailants.
' I was taken to the prison at Lamego till my passport was
sent to Oporto to be verified ; and it was returned with an
order from the Bishop for my release. Marechal Beresford
(now Lord Beresford), on being informed of the following
conduct of a little American settled as a watchmaker at
Lamego, had him sent for a long period to prison, till I
interceded for him. This little wretch was employed by the
mob, who doubted my being an Englishman, to ascertain,
by conversing with me, whether I was or not ; and he, with
all the low spite of a Yankee, swore that I was not, and that
I could barely speak English, when the mob again wanted
to put me to death as a spy, and were only prevented by the
courageous friar who had before saved my life. I must
explain, in elucidation of the above story, that the Bishop of
Oporto at this date was a very powerful personage in the
north of Portugal, and governed it like a king. He was an
intriguing, artful priest, and hated the English as heretics.'
The two following anecdotes of General Brotherton's do Anecdotes of
not refer to his service in the i4th Light Dragoons, but to Egypt! i&>i.
the time when he served in Egypt as a young officer in the
Coldstreams, in the army under General Sir Ralph Abercromby,
in 1 80 1, but their great military interest must excuse their
insertion here.
i. ' The first time I was under fire was when carrying one of First time
the colours of the Coldstreams in Egypt, the battalion march- ™gjjjr fire>
ing in line. The sergeant behind me (called the covering
sergeant), seeing me a raw youth, then only sixteen years of
age, said in a respectful but half-joking way, " How do you
feel, sir?" to which I replied, "Pretty well, but this is not
very pleasant " : the men were falling fast. The sergeant,
who was a seasoned veteran, liked the reply, for he seemed
to take me under his special protection and care ever after.
His name and appearance I shall never forget. It was
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Sergeant Stuckey — I often went to Chelsea to see him, where
he died at the age of eighty-four, about the year 1840. Pro-
bably, had I pretended to feel quite at my ease, and to despise
the danger altogether, the shrewd old sergeant would have
put me down as a "humbug." It was this same sergeant who,
along with poor Beckett, assisted me in the water, when a
shell sunk the boat, to the westward of Alexandria.
Adventure in 2. ' When part of the army moved to the west of Alexandria,
iioi.' we had to embark in flat-bottomed boats on a lake. I was
carrying one of the colours of the Coldstreams, and Beckett
(afterwards killed at Talavera) the other. He, poor fellow,
was a very tall man — six feet two or three, I think. We were
shelled by the enemy, and one shell fell in the boat, took off
the legs of two men, and sunk it. The lake was very shallow,
so much so that Beckett stalked along, walking with his colour
in his hand, with water just up to his chin. I had to swim and
carry my colour, which was no easy job ; but I would have
died, of course, sooner than let it go. Beckett, who was a
delightful, good-natured fellow, stuck to me and assisted me
all he could, but shell and shot fell thick around and many
men suffered from them and were drowned. I was fortunate
enough, however, to reach the shore with my colour, and we
drove the enemy before us. It is singular that Beckett met
with nearly a similar adventure on the landing in Egypt, two
months before, and then had to swim for it, with the colours
in his hand.'
Services of General Brotherton.
General 19 General Sir Thomas William Brotherton, G.C.B., the
Sir T. W.
Brotherton, author of the above anecdotes of events in the Peninsular War,
entered the army as an ensign in the Coldstreams in January
1800, became Lieutenant and Captain, July 1801 ; Captain
in the i4th Light Dragoons in 1807 \ Major, November 1811 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet, ipth May 1814; served in the
Fourteenth till 1820, retired on half-pay same year; obtained
the rank of Colonel, 22nd July 1830, and was appointed aide-
1814] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 177
de-camp to the King. On 8th February 1832 he became
Commandant of the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone. He was
promoted to the rank of Major-General, 23rd November 1841,
and on i;th August 1842 was appointed to the staff of the
Northern District at York. On ist January 1847 he became
Inspecting-General of the Cavalry in Great Britain ; was pro-
moted Lieutenant-General on nth November 1851, and General
on ist April 1860. He was made K.C.B. in 1855, and G.C.B.
on 28th June 1861. He served under General Sir Ralph Aber-
cromby in Egypt in 1801 ; in Germany under Lord Cathcart in
1805 5 and m Portugal, Spain, and France during the whole
of the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1814. For his services he
received the war medal (^) with seven clasps, for the battles
of Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca (where he was wounded),
Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, and Nive, in which last battle he
was again wounded and taken prisoner. Besides these battles
he was present at all the cavalry affairs and skirmishes in
which his regiment, the I4th Light Dragoons, was engaged,
and was at the action on the Coa. He was several times
wounded in these skirmishes. He died in January 1868.
The contest in North America, which had been recommenced Expedition to
• r> MI • 11 A GulfofMexico,
m 1813, was still going on; and on the 3 ist August, 2 troops NorthAmerica,
of the Fourteenth, followed by 2 troops on the loth October, August I8l4>
dismounted, sailed from Portsmouth and Plymouth respectively,
one party arriving at Jamaica on 24th November. Here an
expedition was assembled under Major-General (afterwards
Lord) Keane for an attempt on New Orleans, on the river
Mississippi, no miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The expedi-
tion arrived off the coast of Louisiana on the loth December,
where the troops had to be landed in light vessels and open
flat-bottomed boats to navigate Lake Borgne, and then to
traverse a difficult morass before approaching the enemy's
works.
The Americans opposed in such overwhelming numbers,
having extensively fortified lines and batteries as well as armed
M
1 78 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1815
vessels on the river, that the enterprise failed and had to be
relinquished.1
The first squadron of the Fourteenth arrived in the
Mississippi river on the 27th December 1814, and the second
squadron on the 5th January 1815. On the 2nd January 1815
a third squadron embarked for North America, but afterwards
rejoined the regiment at Hounslow, and remained in England.
Major T. W. Brotherton became Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
on the i Qth May 1814, and also received the Companionship
of the Bath ; and Major C. Baker became Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel on the 4th June 1814. At this period the uniform still
remained blue, with orange facings and silver lace.
1815
TWO squadrons In the second attack on New Orleans under Sir A.
NegwgOrieans, Cochrane, on the 8th January, the two squadrons served dis-
8th Jan. 1815. mounted. Major-General the Honourable Sir E. Pakenham,
K.C.B., was killed. Major-Generals Gibbs and Keane were
dangerously wounded, when the command of the troops
devolved upon Major-General Lambert, who in his despatch
to Earl Bathurst, dated off Chandeleur Island, 28th January
1815, states: 'The conduct of the two squadrons of the I4th
Light Dragoons, latterly commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Baker, previously by Major Milles, has been the admiration of
every one, by the cheerfulness with which they have performed
all descriptions of service.
P.S. I regret to have to report that during the night of
the 25th, in very bad weather, a boat containing Lieutenant
Brydges and Cornet Hammond with 37 men of the i4th Light
Dragoons unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy, off
the mouth of the Rigolets. I have not been able to ascertain
correctly the particular circumstances.' — {London Gazette Ex-
traordinary, 9th March 1815.)
The troops returned to the fleet, and this was the occasion
1 Cannon's Record, p. 52.
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on which the boat with 2 officers and 37 men of the regiment
fell into the hands of the enemy, as related above.1
The four troops left the Isles Dauphins for England on the Two squadrons
i -\/r i TM 1 i o • i i i i-n/r from North
23rd March. Ihey anchored at bpithead on the 1301 May, America land
landed at Portsmouth on the i4th, 1 5th, and i6th May, and
marched to join the remainder of the regiment at Hounslow,
whither the depot had moved from Radipole Barracks, Wey-
mouth, two months previously, detaching 50 rank and file
with officers and non-commissioned officers to Hampton Court
Barracks.
On the 6th April the Fourteenth received an intimation from 'Peninsula1
H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief stating that H.R.H the
Prince Regent had been pleased, in the name and on behalf
of H.M. King George in., to grant them permission to bear
the word ' Peninsula ' on their guidons and appointments, in
commemoration of their distinguished services in Portugal,
Spain, and France, from 1808 to 1814.
Napoleon Buonaparte having quitted Elba on 26th Feb-
ruary 1815, returned to France and once more regained the
throne as Emperor. War accordingly began afresh, and ended
in the glorious victory at Waterloo. As two squadrons had
been employed in the Mississippi, and a third had embarked
on 2nd January for the same destination, the Fourteenth
were unfortunately prevented taking any part in that action
and in the operations on the continent which preceded it ; but
two of their officers, Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart., and
Major the Honourable H. Percy, served on the personal staff
of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington in the battle of
Waterloo.2
The London Gazette, dated 22nd June 1815, states as
follows : ' Major the Honourable H. Percy arrived late at
night on 2ist June, in London, with a despatch from Field-
1 The Regimental Digest of Services has the following entry : — ' 1815. January
igth and 2ist. At the disembarkation near New Orleans to land at Cat Island,
Lieutenant Brydges, Cornet Hammond, i troop sergeant-major, 39 rank and file
captured by enemy.'
2 Cannon's Record, pp. 50 to 53.
i8o HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1816-
Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G., to Earl Bathurst, His
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Depart-
ment, about the victory gained at Waterloo (dated igth June
1815).' In this the Duke of Wellington says : — ' I send with
this despatch two eagles taken by the troops in this action,
which Major Percy will have the honour of laying at the feet
of His Royal Highness. I beg leave to recommend him to
your Lordship's protection. — I have the honour, etc.
(Signed) WELLINGTON.'
The third squadron alluded to above, which sailed from
Portsmouth, 2nd January, for North America, proceeded first
to Cork to join the reinforcements, for same destination,
collected there under Major-General Johnstone. The order,
however, was countermanded, and the two troops i4th Light
Dragoons returned from Cork to England, landed at Deal on
3Oth March, were detained a short time at Canterbury, and
thence went to Hounslow.
Regiment The regiment left Hounslow on 3oth December for Bristol,
Ireland.8 ' under Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, where they
embarked in various parties at intervals up to 3ist January 1816,
and proceeded to Ireland, landing at Waterford and Cork.
Establishment Eight farriers were for the first time appointed to be borne
on the strength of the regiment in December, and the troops
were reduced from ten to eight : total strength, exclusive of
officers, being 677, and troop-horses, 581. The eight troops
were designated by the numbers i to 8, according to the
seniority of their captains.
1816
Regiment On the ist January and following days the regiment landed
Ireland, at Cork and Waterford, and proceeded to Dundalk, the last
il6' detachment disembarking in February.
All the front peaks of the troop saddles of Light Cavalry
were cut down on the 24th September, and a further reduction
in the establishment of the Fourteenth also took place, the
i8i8] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 181
total strength of non-commissioned officers and men being 509,
with 333 troop-horses.
One lieutenant-colonelcy was reduced, and in the Army List
for 1817, Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart., is the only Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth, Major-General S. Hawker
having been removed from that position, which he had occupied
since 1800, with the exception of a short interval only (1802-3)
when he was temporarily on half-pay.
1817
Further small reductions took place in the 8 troops ; i lieu-
tenant only was allowed per troop from 27th January. The
Fourteenth remained stationed at Dundalk.
1818
Still further reductions were made in the numbers of the Further
various ranks of the regiment, but the number of the troops
remained eight. By an order dated Dublin Castle, 23rd October l8x8
1818, each troop was to have only 2 sergeants, 3 corporals,
i trumpeter, i farrier, 42 privates, 34 troop-horses.
On the 25th December, Captains Townsend and Badcock
were promoted to the rank of Major in the army for their
services in the field during the war in the Peninsula, and a
second Assistant-Surgeon ceased to be borne on the establish-
ment of the regiment.
In July the Fourteenth moved to Portobello Barracks,
Dublin, to be quartered. During its stay in Ireland the
regiment received on several occasions the thanks of both
Major-General White and Major-General Sir T. Sidney
Beckwith for its good conduct, discipline, and efficiency.
On the 27th May, General Sir George Beckwith, G.C. B.,
Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, formed up the regiment, in
column of half squadrons, in Dublin, and personally compli-
mented all ranks for their excellent conduct and discipline
during the period of their stay under his command in Ireland.
182 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1819
1819
Establishment The total establishment of the Fourteenth was now fixed at
altered, 1819. 8-TrOOpS.
28 Officers (5 Staff Officers).
404 Non-commissioned officers and men.
273 Troop-horses.
Regiment In June they embarked at Dublin, and landed at Liver-
England, pool nth June, having crossed the Channel in vessels named
June 1819. fae Duke of Leinster, Duke of Richmond, Shamrock, and
Dauntless. From Liverpool there was a long march to the
south of England.
Major-General Sir Robert Bolton, Inspector-General of
Cavalry, inspected the regiment in June at Camberwell, a halt
being made for two days on the march. After 200 miles' march
along the roads there were no sore backs, and the Major-
General reported favourably on the well-regulated and estab-
lished discipline which pervaded all ranks. The Fourteenth
proceeded thence to Canterbury.
Whilst stationed at Canterbury the various troops of the
regiment were much scattered through Kent, at Deal, Hythe,
Dover, Ringwould, Folkestone, Romney, Lydd, Sandgate, and
Highgate, small parties being detached to these various places
and employed in assisting the Riding Officers of the Revenue.
On 26th August, 2 squadrons went from Canterbury to
Chatham, returning on yth September.
On 22nd September, 5 troops left Canterbury and proceeded
as follows : —
i Troop to Ipswich.
i Troop to Bury St. Edmunds.
1 Troop to Lynn.
2 Troops to Norwich, and detachment to Yarmouth in
relief of the 9th Lancers.
i Troop and headquarters remained at Canterbury,
i Troop at Hythe.
i Troop at Deal.
1 820] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 183
In December the 2 troops at Deal and Hythe joined
headquarters at Canterbury.
On 3ist July, blue-grey kersey wove overalls were taken Blue-grey
into wear by all ranks. SHE?"
On 24th September, Colonel Sir Felton B. Hervey, Bart.,
C.B., Commanding the Fourteenth, and Secretary to the Master-
General of the Ordnance, died. His loss was most deeply
deplored by the whole corps.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Baker succeeded Sir F. B. Lieutenant-
Hervey as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth on 3oth
September, and Brevet-Major T. P. Milles became Major in Baker-
succession. Lieutenant-Colonel Baker had practically had
command of the regiment for some time already in the
absence of Sir Felton Hervey on staff employment.
1820
On 1 7th January, His Majesty's royal permission was Five 'honours'
granted to the Fourteenth to wear on its guidons and appoint- foment,0 the
ments the words I820«
'Talavera,'
' Fuentes d'Onor,'
' Salamanca/
' Vittoria,'
'Orthes.'
The letter containing the intimation to the regiment of the
royal permission for these additional honours was signed
' HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant-General, Horse-Guards, i5th
March 1820.'
On 24th June the Fourteenth were inspected at Canter-
bury by Major-General Lord Edward Somerset. The men had
lately been employed in the flat marshy ground near Romney,
and many were sick with ague and similar complaints.
Vaccine inoculation was regularly practised in the hospitals at
this period. The review report states that there was a Riding-
Master now in the regiment, but his name does not appear
HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1820
in the Army List amongst the roll of officers until the year
1823. Four men per troop were taught how to shoe horses
on an emergency.
In June the 5 troops which were in Norfolk and Suffolk
rejoined headquarters at Canterbury, and the Fourteenth again
furnished detached troops to Deal and Hythe for revenue
services.
On i Qth July a squadron was sent from Canterbury to
Dover on civil duty.
On 3ist July, 4 troops and headquarters left Canterbury
for Brighton.
On 1 4th August a squadron left Dover for Lewisham, and
at the same time a squadron moved from Brighton to Reigate,
en route to Richmond.
It appears from the general marching orders of this period
that 6 troops were at Richmond, Putney, Mortlake, etc., early
in September, and were ordered to march about loth Septem-
ber to Brighton in two divisions, and that they arrived at
Brighton, i3th September, where the 85th Regiment (Duke
of York's Own Light Infantry) arrived from Richmond,
Twickenham, etc., on i5th, i6th, and i8th of the same
month. It also appears from same marching orders that the
6 troops of the i4th Light Dragoons left Brighton again on
3Oth September for the above-named places in the vicinity
of London, and part of the regiment was employed at Rich-
mond in September and October, and at Wimbledon in
October, when it was again inspected by Major-General Lord
Edward Somerset, Inspector-General of Cavalry.
There appears to have been a new system of military
equitation introduced about this period, and the Fourteenth
were temporarily cantoned during the autumn months about
Richmond and Wimbledon, having come there from Kent and
Brighton, and afterwards returned about October to Brighton,
sending detachments to places along the coast of Sussex.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. Brotherton went
on half-pay on 25th September, and Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel
1821] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 185
the Honourable Henry Percy, C.B., who had served on the
Duke of Wellington's staff at Waterloo, became Major on
the 1 2th October.
1821
GEORGE IV. George iv.,
1821.
The establishment was reduced from 8 to 6 troops, con- Establishment
sisting of 23 sergeants, 6 farriers, 6 trumpeters, 18 corporals,
282 privates, and 253 troop-horses, and on 25th April the
officers' clothing was regulated by His Majesty's warrant.
On 1 6th June, Major-General Lord R. E. H. Somerset
inspected the regiment at Brighton, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Baker. There were detachments at —
Hastings, under Captain Babington.
Arundel, under Captain Townsend.
Eastbourne, under Captain Charlton.
Pulmonic complaints had been very prevalent in the
Fourteenth during the last six months in the regimental
hospital at Brighton.
There were 83 soldiers' wives in the regiment at this time,
and no children, 50 of whom attended school. The boys were
taught trades, and the girls were taught to knit and sew in the
regimental school.
Up to this period, corporal punishment appears to have
been much resorted to in the army generally, and was very
frequent — in fact, it seems to have been almost the only
punishment awarded by regimental courts-martial for the rank
and file, reductions for non-commissioned officers being the
only alternative.
Veterinary-Surgeon A. Black and the farriers had made a
very successful use of Colman's patent shoe in cases of disease
in the horses' feet, for which they were commended in the
Major-General's report.
The Fourteenth proceeded during the year from Brighton
1 86 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1822-
to Hounslow, and were inspected there again by Major-General
Lord E. Somerset on 23rd October.
Captain (Brevet-Major) J. Townsend became Major on
1 3th September.
1822
On ist June the Fourteenth took part in a review on
Hounslow Heath before H.R.H. the Duke of York, Com-
mander-in-Chief, together with the three Household Cavalry
Regiments, the loth and i5th Hussars, and a brigade of
Royal Horse Artillery. A very high meed of praise was
bestowed by H.R.H. on all the troops present, for their general
appearance, equipment, and movements. This was expressed in
a letter written by the Adjutant- General of the army, Sir Henry
Torrens, and forwarded through General Earl Cathcart and
Major-General Lord Edward Somerset, to those concerned.
In the summer the Fourteenth marched to Coventry,
Birmingham, Nottingham, and Abergavenny. At this period
the total number of officers of all ranks in the regiment was 28,
and the number of troops 6.
1823
In June the Fourteenth moved to Dorchester, sending
detached troops to Christchurch and Truro. General the
Earl of Bridgewater died, and was succeeded as Colonel by
Colonel— sir Lieutenant-General Sir John O. Vandeleur, K.C. B., on 28th
leur. October. He came from the i9th Light Dragoons, which had
been disbanded in 1821. Mr. Collyer, of Park Place, St.
James's, had been regimental agent up to this time, since
1799.
1824
Headquarters and 2 troops moved from Dorchester in the
autumn to Exeter.
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1828] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 187
A hospital sergeant was first appointed to the regiment in
this year, and one private taken off the establishment.
Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Hammersley were this year
appointed the regimental agents.
1825
In April the Fourteenth left Exeter, etc., and embarking Regiment
1 8th April at Bideford, landed at Waterford on the 2Oth and Ireland, 1825.
2ist of April, and were quartered at Cork, Fermoy, Bandon, etc.
1826
The headquarters remained at Cork till the 8th May, when
the regiment marched to Dublin, and on the i2th June was
inspected by Major-General Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B., and
also by him again on the i4th September, when the Major-
General was pleased to express his entire approbation of its
appearance, discipline, and interior economy.
1827
On the nth and i2th January the Fourteenth marched
to Newbridge, en route to Athlone, Ballinrobe, Gort, and
Loughrea.
1828
On the 4th and 5th March the Fourteenth moved to Dublin
under Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Baker, where it was inspected
on the 22nd March by Lieutenant-General Sir G. Murray,
G.C.B., Commander of the Forces in Ireland, from whom it
received a very high meed of praise for its appearance, dis-
cipline, and general good conduct. He either spoke or wrote
the following words to Lieutenant-Colonel Baker after his
inspection of the regiment : — ' Colonel Baker, it gives me the
greatest pleasure to express the great satisfaction this inspection
has afforded me. The high state of discipline, the efficiency
i88 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1829
and interior economy of the i4th Light Dragoons were never
more conspicuous, and coincide with all the previous reports
I have had from Major-General Sir Colquhoun Grant. Now
that the regiment is about to embark, I will take this oppor-
tunity of stating that my long acquaintance with it and its
distinguished services in the Peninsula, will always cause me
to feel the most lively interest in its welfare and prosperity.'
Recruiting. The Fourteenth of late had been recruited from time to
time by means of a recruiting party stationed at Parsonstown,
King's County, together with recruits raised at headquarters.
Regiment On the 26th March the Fourteenth embarked in two divi-
Engiand, sions for Liverpool, disembarked there the 28th, and marched
18281 thence on the 3rd April to Coventry and Birmingham.
Captain William Beckwith became Major on the i4th
February, vice Milles.
1829
On the 1 6th April, Lieutenant-Colonel Baker retired after
Lieut. -Colonel ten years in command of the regiment, and Major J. Townsend,
—John Town- , , , •> , . , i • i T- i
send. who had served almost since he was a boy in the r ourteenth,
succeeded him as Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain E. L.
Parry became Major.
On the Qth February, lapels for Light Cavalry were
Changes in abolished, and the colour of the overalls, which for the last ten
1829.™' years had been blue-grey, was changed to Oxford mixture on
the 1 5th April.
The strength of the regiment at this period was only 326
men and 250 troop-horses, and during the year 5 men died
and 4 deserted, according to the annual return.
On the 8th May, 3 troops left Birmingham, 2 for Burnley
and i for Rochdale (Lancashire). On the 9th May, head-
quarters and 2 troops left Coventry for Leeds, and on the 5th
June, i troop left Coventry for the same destination.
Major William Beckwith was awarded the dignity of a
Knight Companion of the Hanoverian Order of the Guelphs
('K.H.').
1830] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 189
By an order dated 9th December, forge carts were with-
drawn from cavalry regiments in Great Britain.
1830
WILLIAM IV.
1830.
In April the Fourteenth marched from Leeds to Brighton
and Chichester, 4 troops and headquarters to Brighton, 2
troops to Chichester. This move was completed by the 2Oth
May, and on the 24th May, Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian,
K.C.B., inspected the headquarters and 2 squadrons at
Brighton, and highly commended the regiment for its appear-
ance, discipline, and interior economy.
Recruiting was temporarily suspended about this time.
On the 1 9th June, at Brighton, the full Colonel, Lieutenant-
General Sir J. O. Vandeleur, G.C.B., made a farewell inspection
of the regiment, and was very complimentary in his remarks
afterwards to Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend. He particularly
noted the excellent management of the school, and the great
progress of the pupils.1
On the 1 8th June, Major-General Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., Colonel— Sir
K.C.B., was appointed Colonel in succession to Lieutenant- KerSon, Bart.
General Sir J. O. Vandeleur, who went to the i6th Light
Dragoons.
On the 1 6th July an order was issued directing that only
one major be borne on the establishment of cavalry regiments
at home.
On the 22nd July the Fourteenth marched to London, and
were quartered in the neighbourhood of Paddington and
Lambeth from 24th to 29th July.
On the 26th July, His Majesty King William iv. reviewed 14* (King's)
the regiment in Hyde Park. His Majesty was much pleased Dragoons,
30th July 1830.
1 See Cannon's Record, p. 56, etc. It is a curious coincidence that at Brighton
again, nearly sixty years afterwards, the excellent management of the regimental
school was very highly commended by the District Inspector in 1888-90, as
recorded in his official report to the Commanding Officer.
190 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1830
with the regiment, and commanded that it should in future bear
the distinguished title of 'The Fourteenth,' or 'The King's,'
instead of the ' Duchess of York's Own Regiment of Light
Dragoons.' His Majesty expressed his great approval of the
regiment through Major-General Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., K.C.B.,
who was present at the inspection. This order was dated 3oth
July 1830, and in consequence of becoming a Royal regiment
the facings should have been changed from orange to scarlet,
but this change does not appear to have been carried out
immediately.
On the 29th July the Fourteenth proceeded from London
to Birmingham and Coventry.
Regiment On the 5th October, Major-General Dalbiac inspected at
Birmingham, and was much pleased with the efficiency of the
in the Mid- regiment. On the nth November, i troop was sent from
lands, October & _ ' 111
1830. Coventry to Banbury, where it apprehended 1 7 rioters the
same night, and from this date up to the 24th December all
the troops of the Fourteenth were frequently on the move in
the neighbouring towns and counties owing to riots.
On 2nd December headquarters moved from Birmingham
to Oxford.
On the 3rd December, i troop moved from Kidderminster
to Oxford.
On 4th December, i squadron moved from Northleach to
Barford.
On 1 8th December, i troop went from Wellingborough to
Northampton.
On 2ist December, i troop went from Northleach to
Coventry.
On i Qth December headquarters moved from Oxford to
Coventry.
uniforms ^n ^e 2^ August I^3°» a^ cavalry, excepting the Royal
ordered to Horse Guards (Blue), were ordered to be clothed in red, as
His Majesty King William iv., being a sailor, preferred blue
for the navy, and red for the army. All authorities, including
the Army Lists, give the facings of the Fourteenth at this period
1831] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 191
as orange, but Cannon records that they were scarlet.1 He
does not, however, notice the general change of uniform from
blue to red which took place throughout the cavalry from 1830
to 1832. The silver lace was ordered to be changed to gold
this year.
1831
On the ist January the number of troop-horses was in-
creased from 253 to 271, and an orderly-room clerk, ranking Establishment,
as sergeant, was added, one private being at the same time
reduced from the establishment.
The headquarters were at Coventry till February, and from
the Qth February till the 24th November the various troops
of the Fourteenth were moved about on duty during the riots
in the Midland and Southern counties, in aid of the civil
power. Some troops went as far as Dowlais and Llandrillo,
in Merionethshire.
Headquarters moved in February to Birmingham, sending
i troop to Kidderminster.
In April, owing to elections at Coventry, 3 troops moved
hence, 2 to Nuneaton and i to Leamington, returning to
Coventry on the 9th May.
On 7th July headquarters and 2 troops marched from
Birmingham for Worcester, thence via Tewkesbury to Gloucester
to be quartered. Four troops and headquarters were inspected
at Worcester on the 9th July by Major-General Sir C. Dalbiac.
These 4 troops moved to Gloucester on the nth July to be
stationed, but on the 6th August, owing to the assizes taking
place there, headquarters and 3 troops moved to Tewkesbury,
and i troop to Upton-on-Severn.
The headquarters and 4 troops from Tewkesbury and
Upton-on-Severn returned to Gloucester on the igth August.
On the 27th June a troop which had been on detachment Regiment
was sent from Coventry to Abergavenny. A troop went from fiT/m^uth
Dowlais to Abergavenny on the 29th August, having been sent^alres' Ausust
1 Cannon's Record of\^th Light Dragoons, p. 57.
i92 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1831
to aid the civil power at the Dowlais iron works, where there
were riots, and i troop had moved on the 2Oth August from
Abergavenny to Llandilo, owing to riots at Carmarthen, but
returned on the ist September to Abergavenny.
On the 26th September, 2 troops moved from Gloucester to
Abergavenny, 2 troops at Abergavenny went to Gloucester,
and a detachment went from Gloucester to Newport on the
ist November. On the 2nd November a troop went from
Gloucester to Tewkesbury, on the 3rd November i troop went
from Bristol to Gloucester, and on the 6th November i troop
was moved from Abergavenny to the Tredegar iron works till
the 8th November, and owing to Bristol riots, 3 troops were at
Sudbury and Clifton in October, and in the same month 2
Regiment troops were employed at Bristol in the riots there, under com-
SfftEd* mand of Major William Beckwith, K. H.,1 who had with him also
riots, 1831. a tro0p of the ^rd Dragoon Guards. The energetic conduct of
Major William Beckwith on this occasion helped materially to
suppress the riots, and to save the city from wholesale plunder
by the rioters. Sir Charles Wetherall was the recorder of
Bristol, and it was his arrival to hold the Sessions which brought
the riots to a head, on Saturday, the 29th October. The
troops at Tewkesbury returned to Gloucester by the i8th
November.
General Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief, gave the Fourteenth
very high praise for their services during the suppression of the
riots in various places, but particularly at Bristol, on which
latter occasion he specially commended Major Beckwith, K.H.,
and Captains Gage and Musgrave.
Lieutenant Van Straubenzee2 was one of the officers of
Captain Musgrave's troop of the i4th Light Dragoons present
at these Bristol riots, and the following description of what
took place is taken from a letter written by him some years
after to the editor of the Daily Telegraph : — 'In the year
1831 it was my misfortune to be present at several riots as
1 Afterwards Lieutenant- General William Beckwith, K.H., Colonel of the I4th
(King's) Light Dragoons.
2 Afterwards Colonel Van Straubenzee, commanding 2nd West York Militia.
1831] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 193
well as at Bristol. In the latter, I may mention that after
being pelted with stones and harassed in every sort of way,
the captain in command of the troop of the Fourteenth, during
a temporary absence of the commandant,1 went to the mayor
and his brother magistrates and expressed his opinion that if
he was allowed to act the riots might soon be stopped. He
obtained leave to act, but unfortunately as he was leaving the
Mansion House he met the commandant, who told him he
must do nothing without his orders. The consequence was
the troops were pelted and harassed as before. There was one
particular passage where the rioters had collected a great
amount of ammunition, and from which issued a volley of
stones every time the troops passed. The officer in com-
mand told them if the same thing happened the next time,
he would fire into the passage. Before returning he got a
pistol from one of the men, and as the same thing occurred,
he fired instantly and killed a man. This stopped their stone-
throwing, but they instantly went to the colonel in command
of the troops and promised him if he would send away
the "bloody blues,"2 as they pleased to designate the I4th
Light Dragoons, they would be quiet. He unfortunately
believed this, and ordered the Fourteenth out to Keynsham.
After they were sent away fearful excesses commenced : it was
then that the three gaols were broken open, all the prisoners
released, and the buildings destroyed by fire. The bishop's
palace was broken into, sacked and burned down, and many
of the rioters, being intoxicated by the contents of the cellar,
were buried in the ruins. The toll-houses were burned down,
and the Mansion House was set fire to, and many of the
rioters perished by the fall of the walls. Fortunately the
aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief happened to be
staying in the neighbourhood, and he came over and took
upon himself to order the return of the troop of the Fourteenth,
1 The commandant was disposed to be very lenient towards the rioters.
2 This nickname seems to prove that the scarlet uniform with gold lace was not
yet adopted in the Fourteenth.
N
i94 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1832
and just when it arrived at Bristol, Major Beckwith, K.H.,
with another troop arrived from Gloucester, and he, taking
command of the squadron, with a few vigorous charges, in
which several men were cut down, struck terror amongst the
populace and crushed the riot at once. Our squadron was very
weak, and I don't think the officers, non-commissioned officers
and men amounted to more than eighty altogether. Yet the
infuriated and intoxicated mob, that had for many hours been
in possession of the town, were subdued in an incredible short
space of time.'
Major-General T. Van Straubenzee, C.B., late Royal Artil-
lery, son of the late Colonel Van Straubenzee, says in a letter to
the author : l 'As far as I remember, my father was in Captain
Musgrave's troop at the time (as Lieutenant), and in charging
the rioters he was knocked off his horse and stunned by a
brickbat, and pulled into a house to save him from further
violence.'
The riots at Bristol took place from the 29th to 3ist
October, and in addition to the i4th Light Dragoons, the
Royal Horse Artillery, the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and the
52nd Light Infantry took part in their suppression, under the
command of Major-General Sir R. Jackson, K.C.B.
Orange facings On the 1 2th April it had been ordered that the facings
biuef 183°. should be changed from orange to blue.2 The orange facings
had been worn by the Fourteenth since 1798.
1832
Regiment On the 1 3th January the troops at Abergavenny went to
Mdriots8!^8 Chepstow and Usk till ist February, and the troops temporarily
Wales. at the Hot Wells, Clifton, came in to Gloucester on the 5th
February. Owing to the assizes and riots several further
movements of troops took place in March and April, and i
troop from Abergavenny went to the Beaufort Ironworks on
the 1 4th April till the 9th May.
Headquarters moved in March to Stroud, and back to
1 Dated 23rd October 1900. 2 War Office Circular- Book, JS.t p. 130.
1798.
1832.
1832] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 195
Gloucester in April. In March, i troop went from Clifton to
Sudbury.
A very handsome pecuniary reward of ^40 was voted by the
authorities at Gloucester to the non-commissioned officers and
men of the Fourteenth who had been employed there when
a great fire took place on the 2$rd April, at the Lunatic
Asylum. The money was paid by the Lunatic Asylum Protector
Insurance Company, and was divided among the non-com-
missioned officers and men of the Fourteenth who had rendered
such valuable aid on the occasion, under the orders of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Townsend and his officers. The Mayor of
Gloucester, Mr. Alexander Walker, wrote a most complimentary
letter, dated 4th June, to Lieutenant- Colonel J. Townsend as
to the valuable service thus rendered by the troops.
In June, 5 troops of the regiment were moved from Regiment
Gloucester, Clifton, and Coventry, to Hounslow, where they^S7*^^
were employed on King's duty, in furnishing escorts for their atg Hounslow,
Majesties and the royal family.
One troop went to Hampton Court, and a detachment to
Kensington, consisting of i subaltern, i sergeant, and 32 rank
and file. On the 25th June, 4 troops were at Kensington for
the night.
The King's crest (the royal cypher within the garter) was, King's crest
by His Majesty's royal favour, permitted to be borne on the
appointments ; and the Prussian eagle, which had been hitherto ments:> an^ t}Je
. it!. 1.1 Prussian Eagle
used as the regimental badge since 1798, was now authorised continued on
to be continued in the second and third corners of
regimental guidon.1 The regiment being a royal one was
entitled to scarlet facings from 1830, but as the uniform was
changed from blue to scarlet about the same date, or at all
events not later than 1832, and the facings to blue, it is not
probable that scarlet facings were worn until the uniform was
changed again to blue in 1840.
During this year, according to the annual return, 6 men Establishment.
died and 1 3 deserted ; the establishment of the regiment being
335 men and 270 troop-horses.
1 Cannon's Record, pp. 59-60.
196 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1833-
Recruiting. The Fourteenth had been recruited lately in the vicinity of
its quarters, in the counties of Gloucester and Warwick, and
by means of a recruiting party at Worcester.
1833
Major-General Sir E. Kerrison, Bart, K.C.B., inspected
the Fourteenth at Hounslow on the i8th March, and expressed
himself very pleased with what he saw.
Regiment The troops at Kensington and Hampton Court had come
Ireland,8 1833. to Hounslow on the 1 6th March, and on the 2ist March the
Fourteenth moved from Hounslow to Bristol, where they em-
barked for Dublin, the third and last division disembarking on
the 2nd April. They were quartered in Dublin until the end
of the year, going on the 5th July from Portobello Barracks
for temporary duty to Newry, Dundalk, Armagh, Castleblaney,
and Monaghan, in aid of the civil power, but returning from
Armagh to Dublin by the 2oth July. Major-General Sir E.
Blakeney, K.C.B., inspected the regiment in Dublin at Porto-
bello Barracks, on the iyth May; he expressed himself very
much pleased, and especially commended the comfortable
messing arrangements for the rank and file, and the admirable
state of the regimental school. He also said that the steadi-
ness of the men and the celerity of their movements at his
review in the Phcenix Park could not be surpassed.
Lieutenant- General the Right Honourable Sir Hussey
Vivian, Bart., G.C.H., K.C.B., Commander of the Forces in
Ireland, held a review of the regiment in the Phcenix Park on
the 27th May. At the conclusion of the parade he addressed
the regiment, and said : 'The i4th Light Dragoons are, as I
have always found them, and I have no doubt they will ever
continue to be, as perfect as any regiment of cavalry can be,
and you have my unqualified approbation.'
In Dublin, on the i4th August, Lieutenant- General Sir
Hussey Vivian again had a review, when the Cavalry Brigade
consisted of the 5th Dragoon Guards, loth Hussars, and
1 4th Light Dragoons.
1835] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 197
On the 1 8th April, Cornet Surtees died at Clifton, and
Major William Beckwith, K.H., left the Fourteenth on
appointment to an unattached lieutenant-colonelcy.
On the 8th September a slight reduction in the troop-horses Establishment
and rank and file of the regiment was ordered, and on the Recruiting
November recruiting was suspended. suspended.
1834
On the ist April headquarters and 3 troops moved from
Portobello Barracks, Dublin, to Longford, i troop went to Gort,
2 troops to Athlone, and a small detachment went to Birr on
the 23rd April from Athlone, owing to 4 Baronies in King's
County being proclaimed under the Coercion Act, and in June
another detachment went from Longford to Ballinasloe.
On the 24th May, His Majesty King William iv. com- Guidons
manded that the use of guidons in regiments of light dragoons Jg^ e
should be discontinued.1 Those in regiments of lancers and
hussars had been already discontinued two months earlier.
In April the establishment was reduced to 274 men and 253 Establishment
i reduced.
troop-horses.
On the 4th and 7th June, General Sir J. Buchan, K.C.B.,
inspected the Fourteenth at Longford, and expressed his entire
satisfaction. He also inspected again on the 8th November,
and spoke in very flattering terms of the satisfactory state of
the regiment.
1835
During the parliamentary elections from the 8th to the 28th Regiment
January the Fourteenth were employed in aid of the civil power, ekSon du°ty,
to preserve the peace, in Galway, Ennis, Castlebar, Ballinasloe, l83S-
Tuam, Roscommon, Loughrea, and adjacent districts, without
any casualties to man or horse. In April, i troop went to
Carrickmacross. From the 5th to the I9th May the regiment
was moving to Dundalk, 4 troops and headquarters ; detaching
1 The Fourteenth thus lost the White Horse of Hanover granted by Royal Warrant
in 1751.
198
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1836-
Regiment
employed in
aid of civil
power for
collection of
tithes.
Band to be
Regiment
lands in
Scotland,
1836.
Recruiting.
i troop to Belturbet with a subaltern's party at Ballyshannon,
and i troop to Monaghan. Headquarters were inspected at
Dundalk by Major-General Macdonell, C.B., on the 29th May,
and again on the 25th September following, and on both
occasions the Major-General was pleased to express his
approval.
During June, July, and August the Fourteenth were con-
stantly moved about in aid of the civil power. In December
the troops at some of the out-quarters were exchanged for
others from Dundalk, to which place they came in ; the sub-
altern's party at Ballyshannon was not continued, and the
Monaghan troop moved to Belturbet. In the previous
month (November) the subaltern's party was sent from Bally-
shannon to Monaghan to aid the civil power in collection of
tithes.
Cornet C. Jones died at Longford on the 6th April, and
Captain C. Delme died at Dundalk on the i4th November.
Captain J. W. Sim Smith became Major vice Beckwith on
the lyth July. The dress of the band was now assimilated to
that of the trumpeters by an order of the nth April applying
to all cavalry regiments.
1836
On the 3rd February the Monaghan troop came to Dundalk
and was not relieved. During the months of March, April, and
the beginning of May the various troops of the Fourteenth were
moved about in aid of the civil power at Newry, Carrickmacross,
Newtown- Hamilton, Kingscourt, etc. There was a squadron
now at Belturbet which joined headquarters at Dundalk on the
nth May. On the i2th May the headquarters and 5 troops
went from Dundalk to Belfast, and, commencing on the i7th
May, the whole regiment embarked in 8 divisions in small
steam vessels for Glasgow, arriving there on the 25th May.
At this time the recruiting of the regiment was mostly kept
up by means of recruits raised at headquarters and detachments.
Major-General the Honourable Patrick Stewart inspected at
1838] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 199
Glasgow on the 7th June, and gave the regiment the greatest
credit for its high state of efficiency.
The second annual inspection was made by Major-General
Sir C. Dalbiac, K.C.H., on the 8th October, which also passed
off in the most satisfactory manner. The effective strength of
the regiment was 305 non-commissioned officers and men, and
232 troop-horses. A detachment was stationed at Hamilton.
1837
QUEEN VICTORIA Queen Victoria,
1837.
On the 4th April the Fourteenth commenced the march to
Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, from Hamilton and Glasgow.
On the 22nd July, twenty-eight years after the event, in'Douro'
reply to an application made by Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend, fp^ntmemsf
permission to bear the word ' Douro' on the appointments was22ndJulyl837'
granted — an honour all the more precious since it is not shared
by any other British cavalry regiment.
The Fourteenth were employed at Musselburgh and the
adjacent localities from the 22nd July till the 5th August
during the general election ; and on the 22nd August 3 troops
were employed at Dalkeith till the 28th, during the election
of peers for Scotland.
1838
In May the regiment left Edinburgh and was at Langholm
on the ist June, afterwards proceeding, 3 troops and head-
quarters to Birmingham and 2 troops to Coventry.
One troop went from Carlisle to Bath the same month, and
in the following month moved to Clifton, when the squadron at
Coventry moved to Weedon ; the dismounted party and the
baggage went by Glasgow and Liverpool to Birmingham.
When the Fourteenth left Edinburgh, Major-General Lord
Greenock, Commanding the troops, issued a most complimen-
tary farewell order in a letter dated Edinburgh, 2;th May 1838.
200 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1838
He referred in the highest terms to the conduct of the regi-
ment whilst stationed under his command, and said how
gratifying it was to him to observe that a corps so distinguished
as the 1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons had ever been, was
careful to maintain its great reputation earned in the Peninsula,
and how rejoiced he was that the corps still preserved un-
changed after so many years of peace the same character to
which it owed its former reputation, and that it had lost nothing
of that spirit which animated it during the brightest period of
the late wars. His lordship continued : — ' This is mainly to be
attributed to the devoted zeal and indefatigable exertions of its
present commanding officer, who, having been brought up
himself in the regiment and a participator in all the actions in
which it was engaged in the Peninsula, knows so well how to
keep alive both by precept and example the esprit de corps
which pervades all ranks, and enables him, with the assistance
of Captain Leary, who was trained in the same school and
likewise fought gallantly in the Peninsular campaign, so
successfully to carry out the excellent system of discipline
and instruction which now renders the i4th (King's) Light
Dragoons, in the Major- General's estimation, for all the pur-
poses of Light Cavalry service, the most efficient corps in the
British Army. (Signed) GREENOCK, M.G.,
Commanding in North Britain.
1 To Lieut-Colonel TOWNSEND,
Commanding i4th (King's) Light Dragoons,
Piershill Barracks.'
On the ist June, Captain C. Barton became Major vice
Smith. Captain C. Royds, when on leave, died of consumption
at Avignon, France, on the 2;th March, and Assistant- Surgeon
J. Huey died of laryngitis at Edinburgh on the 28th April.
Establishment. Early in the year a slight increase in the rank and file took
tmg- place, and recruits were partly raised in London, Birmingham,
and Saxmundham. The number of troop-horses was raised
from 253 to 271.
1 839] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 201
On the 3ist July the 2 troops at Weedon proceeded to
Northampton, and on the igth May they marched for Coventry
and arrived on the 2Oth.
On the ist August, Major-General Sir Charles Dalbiac,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, attended by his Brigade-Major,
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable William de Ros, inspected
the Fourteenth at Birmingham, and expressed his entire satis-
faction. On the 3ist December, Sir Charles Dalbiac became
Lieutenant-General, and was succeeded as Inspector- General
of Cavalry by Major-General Sleigh.1
1839
In April the Fourteenth marched to Hounslow and Hampton
Court, a subaltern's party of 30 men went to Kensington, and
a squadron to Hampton Court. The dismounted party went
by railway from Birmingham to Harrow for Hounslow on the
i ith April. Headquarters and 4 troops were at Hounslow.
On the 4th May pistols for the ranks were discontinued, percussion
and percussion carbines were issued on the 23rd October. ^rp11"cees^sued
Each officer, sergeant-major, and trumpeter still retained a pistols, and
wzillcts in pi3.cc
pistol, and by an order issued by General Lord Hill, G.C.B., of holsters.
G.C.H., Commanding-in-Chief, dated the 4th May, leathern
wallets took the place of holsters for Light Dragoons and
Hussars.
On the 2Qth May, at Windsor, the i4th (King's) Light
Dragoons, together with the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), were
inspected by H.I.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia,
who was attended by General Lord Hill, G.C.B., G.C.H.,
Commanding-in-Chief. His Imperial Highness was much
pleased with the performances of the regiments.
On the 3rd June, Major-General Sleigh, Inspector-General
of Cavalry, inspected at Hounslow, and highly commended
the field movements and general state of the regiment.
General Lord Hill, G.C.B., G.C.H., Commanding-in-Chief,
inspected the regiment on Hounslow Heath on the i6th July,
1 Afterwards General Sir J. W. Sleigh, K.C.B.
202 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1840
and expressed himself very pleased with the appearance of
the men and horses, and the celerity of their movements, and
he referred with much gratification to the many favourable
reports he had received of the corps from the Inspecting-
Generals of Cavalry at their several inspections.
Her Majesty Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, through Lord
Howe, in a letter addressed to Lieutenant- Colonel Townsend,
expressed her grateful thanks for the assistance so promptly
rendered on the occasion of a fire at Bushey Farm by the
Hampton Court detachment of the Fourteenth on the 25th
August, and offered to give the men a dinner, or to reward
them in any other manner suggested by the Colonel.
Queen victoria On the ist November, Her Majesty Queen Victoria held a
legi^ent in the review in the Home Park, Windsor, at which the i4th (King's)
Windsor**' Light Dragoons were present, together with the 2nd Life
Guards, and the 2nd battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Her
Majesty was graciously pleased to forward a most flattering
acknowledgment of her approbation of the regiment to Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Townsend, to be communicated to the officers
and men who took part in the review.
1840
straight swords On the ist January the regiment received straight swords
in place of the curved light cavalry swords hitherto in use.
All heavy cavalry and dragoons had straight swords as far
back as 1812.
Escort for The following extract from the Times newspaper (taken
Prince Albert, from a Sunday print) for Monday, loth February 1840, has
reference to the distinguished honour which the Fourteenth
had conferred upon them by being selected to supply an escort
for His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Saturday the 8th
February 1840, the day he arrived in London previous to his
marriage with Her Majesty Queen Victoria, on the loth
February : — ' From Chatham His Royal Highness and suite
set out for Gravesend and so on to Dartford, where they
1 840] THE HTH (KING'S) HUSSARS 203
were met by one of Her Majesty's carnages attended by
servants in Royal livery, and thence proceeded direct to
town. On the arrival of the cavalcade at New Cross a
detachment of the i4th (King's) Light Dragoons was in
waiting, and escorted His Royal Highness from thence
through Peckham, Camberwell and Stockwell, over Vauxhall
Bridge to his happy destination. As early as three o'clock,
notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, groups
began to assemble in St. James's Park in anticipation of His
Royal Highness's arrival. Some stationed themselves at the
Horse Guards from a belief that His Royal Highness would
have come over Westminster Bridge, but the greater proportion
congregated in the immediate vicinity of Buckingham Palace.
About four o'clock the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Errol, the
Earl of Uxb ridge, Lord Melbourne and several of the Cabinet
Ministers arrived at the Palace in readiness to receive the
expected guest, and soon after, carriages, in which were the
Duchess of Richmond, the Marchioness of Anglesey, Lady Byng,
and other ladies of distinction, drew up in front of the principal
entrance to the Palace through the Marble Arch, while the
Palace Guard were drawn out in front of the guard-house pre-
pared to offer the usual salute. All suspense was shortly after-
wards terminated by the rapid approach of the vanguard of the
1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons, who galloped forward and took
their station in front of the Marble Archway, the gates of
which had been previously opened by one of the royal servants.
The main body of the escort soon followed, surrounding the
carriage, in which were His Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Ernest, and
Lord Torrington. A second carriage came immediately after
containing Colonel Grey, Count Kelowrath, Baron Alvensleben,
and another gentleman.'
The Fourteenth also had the high honour of escorting Escort for
Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince v
Albert on the day of their wedding, loth February, on the p^"
occasion of their departure for Windsor in their travelling IothFeb-lS4°-
2O4
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1841
chariot from Buckingham Palace as far as Colnbrook, and here
they were relieved by an escort of the 2nd Life Guards, under
command of Lieutenant Tottenham.1
In April and May the Fourteenth marched from Hounslow,
Hampton Court, and Kensington as follows : —
2 Troops and headquarters to Dorchester,
i Troop to Cardiff. i Troop to Trowbridge.
i Troop to Weymouth. i Troop to Exeter.
Uniform blue, On the 2Qth June an order was issued that the facings
of the Fourteenth be changed from blue to scarlet, and the
uniform was changed at the same time from scarlet to blue.2
On the 5th August, Major-General Sleigh, Inspector-
General of Cavalry, made his inspection of the regiment, and
expressed himself much pleased with all he saw.
Messrs. Cox and Company were now appointed the regi-
mental agents.
Recruiting The recruiting of the Fourteenth was now, and had been
quarters since f°r tne ^ast two years, kept up by enlisting at headquarters.
Establishment
raised to
9 troops.
Recruiting at
Worcester.
1841
In January a recruiting party was sent to Worcester. On
3rd January the Fourteenth were placed under orders for
India to relieve the 4th Light Dragoons in Bombay, and
the establishment was augmented to 9 troops, 55 sergeants,
12 trumpeters, 8 farriers, 40 corporals, 627 privates, and 701
troop-horses. The recruiters at Worcester and at head-
quarters were actively engaged enlisting men to complete the
strength.
On the 3<Dth March the Fourteenth proceeded to Canterbury,
and arrived there on the loth April preparatory to embark-
ation for India. Major-General J. W. Sleigh, C.B., Inspector-
General of Cavalry, made a farewell inspection of the regiment
1 Times •, Tuesday, nth February 1840.
2 See War Office Circular-Book, E., p. 1 1 8.
1841] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 205
at Canterbury on the 2Oth April, and afterwards wrote a very
complimentary letter to Lieutenant-Colonel J. Townsend,
commanding the regiment, of which the following is a
copy : —
1 MY DEAR TOWNSEND, — It gives me much pleasure to be
able to beg of you to express to the officers and men of the
1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons the gratification I have had in
making my inspections of the regiment since I have held the
appointment of Inspector- General of Cavalry. I am aware I
can add nothing to establish the character of a corps which
has ever borne so distinguished a place for gallantry in the
field, and good conduct in quarters ; yet it is a pleasing task
for me to bear record on your departure for India that the
same good conduct still exists which has heretofore gained you
the high opinion of all those officers under whom your regi-
ment has served. — Believe me, my dear Colonel, faithfully
yours, J. W. SLEIGH.'
After this inspection on the 2oth April the Fourteenth Regiment
were dismounted, and the horses were drafted to several other
cavalry regiments during the four following days.
On the 3Oth April, Major William Havelock, K.H., eldest
brother of the renowned Major-General Sir Henry Havelock,
K.C.B., was appointed second Lieutenant-Colonel from the
4th Light Dragoons on augmentation.
Captain C. Harvey was promoted Major on augmentation,
and Lieutenant C. W. Thompson l (afterwards General) joined
the 1 4th Light Dragoons from the 8ist Regiment.
On the 1 5th May, Lieutenant-General Sir Edward
Kerrison, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.H., full Colonel of the I4th
Light Dragoons, inspected them at Canterbury, and afterwards
issued a very gratifying and most highly complimentary fare-
well order to Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend, the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men. The i3th Light Dragoons
1 General C. W. Thompson was Colonel of the i4th (King's) Hussars, 1882-96.
206 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1841-
being at this time quartered at Canterbury, the Fourteenth
renewed their old friendship with them, and as related by
Cannon in his Record of the \$th Light Dragoons, 'the
friendship of the Ragged Brigade, which had begun with and
had continued throughout the eventful careers of the two
regiments in the Peninsula, was cemented afresh, and on this
The regiment occasion the Fourteenth presented to the Thirteenth their
taSefto™ handsome mess-tables to perpetuate in the latter corps a kindly
isth Light remembrance of their old companions in arms. Sic, VIRET IN
Dragoons. *
Embarks for The Fourteenth marched from Canterbury to Herne Bay
India, May Qn ^ ^^ May f^e Ist divisjOn under Lieutenant-Colonel
J. Townsend embarked on the same day at Gravesend in the
Repulse freight steamship of the East India Company, and
arriving at Bombay on the 7th September, disembarked there
on the 8th in boats, and marched to Kirkee, arriving on the
1 9th September.
The 2nd division under Major Barton embarked at
Gravesend on the i4th June in the East India steamship
Reliance, landing at Bombay on the 5th October, and marched
At Kirkee, to Kirkee, where it arrived on the i3th October, and the
whole regiment was concentrated there under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Townsend.
On the ist October, 150 volunteers from the 4th Light
Dragoons were transferred to the Fourteenth.
Moustaches It was about this period that moustaches were generally
generally worn . . . . ° /
in cavalry. worn in the cavalry, and it is commonly said that H.R.H.
Prince Albert (the late Prince Consort) introduced them into
our service.1 On the i2th November the regiment was in-
spected at Kirkee by His Excellency Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas McMahon, Bart., K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief in
Bombay. On the 23rd November, Lieutenant-Colonel J.
Townsend was appointed A.D.C. to Her Majesty the Queen,
with the rank of Colonel in the army.
1 As far back as 1812 Hussars wore moustaches, and other cavalry (Dragoons
and ' Heavies ') shaved the upper lip.
1843] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 207
1842
The regiment was inspected at Kirkee by Major-General
Sir Charles J. Napier, K.C.B., commanding the Poona
Division of the Bombay Army, on the 7th January, and again
on the 1 3th June by the same General Officer. The Com-
mander-in-Chief at Bombay (Sir Thomas M°Mahon, Bart.) also
inspected the regiment at Kirkee on June 23rd, and gave the
highest credit to all ranks. On the i8th August, His Excel-
lency Lieutenant-General SirT. McMahon, Bart., K.C.B., again
inspected at Kirkee in the presence of the Honourable the
Governor of Bombay (Sir George Arthur, Bart.), and they both
made the most complimentary remarks as to the high state of
efficiency in which they found the regiment.
A draft arrived from England on the 9th November, con-
sisting of i sergeant and 99 men, under Cornet Brown, per
steamship Coromandel.
Cornet William McMahon, son of Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas McMahon, Bart., K.C.B., joined the Fourteenth on the
25th November ; and Captain F. H. Stephens became Major
on the same date vice Barton, who retired. On 2oth December,
Major-General Macneil inspected at Kirkee, and reported that
he found everything in the highest state of efficiency.
This year a Hospital-Sergeant was added to the establish- Establishment,
ment of the regiment, and one private was reduced. A
Hospital-Sergeant had previously been appointed to the
regiment in 1824.
1843
On the 3rd February, Major C. P. Ainslie joined the Four-
teenth as Major vice Stephens, and Lieutenant R. P. Apthorp
became Adjutant in succession to Captain William Clarke,
promoted. On 5th June, Major-General Macneil made his
half-yearly inspection at Kirkee, and expressed himself very
much pleased with all he saw, and His Excellency Lieutenant-
General Sir Thomas McMahon, Bart, again inspected on the
208 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1844-
T wo squadrons ^th November. In October 2 squadrons left Kirkee and
October to proceeded on field-service to Kolapore under Major Harvey.
They took part in the southern Mahratta campaign during
^s ^^ t^le f°M°wmg year, when the forts of Monshin and
Munsomtosh were taken. The 2 squadrons on field-service
numbered 15 officers, 289 non-commissioned officers and men,
with 289 troop-horses.
1844
On 2Oth January, Major-General Macneil made his first
half-yearly inspection, and his second on the 29th of June, both
at Kirkee. His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the
Bombay army (Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas McMahon,
Bart.) also made an inspection on the 27th June.
1845
The Fourteenth were inspected by Major-General Macneil
at Kirkee on 2ist January in light marching-order, for outpost
and picquet duty, and in review-order on the following day ;
and Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock was directed to convey to
the regiment the Major- General's entire approbation of the
results of both days' work.
Colonel J. Townsend, A.D.C., had gone home on leave
in the spring, and he died at Castle Townsend, County Cork,
Ireland, on 22nd April, after nearly forty years' service in the
Fourteenth and sixteen years in command.
Lieut. -Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel William Havelock, K.H., succeeded to
Hateiock! tne command of the Fourteenth, and Lieutenant-Colonel E.
Harvey became second Lieutenant-Colonel on 23rd April.
On 1 6th May, Captain W. H. Archer became Major.
TWO squadrons The 2 squadrons from Kolapore rejoined headquarters on
Ko?5ofre,m J9tn March, having been present at the investment and capture
i9th March of the fortresses of Panulla and Powrghur.
On loth June, His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir
Thomas McMahon, Bart., K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief at
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Bombay, made an inspection of the regiment in 'watering-
order,' and was very pleased.
On 2Oth June, Major-General Macneil made his half-yearly
inspection, and the Honourable the Governor - General of
Bombay, together with His Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief, made an inspection a few days later and expressed
their entire satisfaction.
On 27th November, His Excellency General Sir Thomas
McMahon, Bart., G.C.B., inspected the Fourteenth for the last
time, in marching-order, previous to its departure from Kirkee, Regiment
which station it left on i5th December to march to the upper ^i
provinces of Bengal. ber<
After the inspection Sir Thomas McMahon made a most
flattering report of the state of the Fourteenth, and he said
he should convey the same to the Governor of Bombay, the
Commander -in -Chief of the forces in India, and to the
authorities in England. He said he considered the i4th
(King's) Light Dragoons in as high a state of efficiency as
any regiment in Her Majesty's service.
On 1 4th December the Major-General commanding the
division promulgated a very complimentary farewell order.
He particularly remarked on what an excellent school he con-
sidered the 1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons must be to produce
good officers, when such as Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot, Colonel
Sir Felton Bathurst Hervey, Colonel T. W. Brotherton, and
the late lamented and gallant Colonel Townsend had been
brought up in it.
On 1 5th December the regiment left Kirkee, marching Regiment
towards Agra.
1846
The Fourteenth had now to undergo a long monotonous
march of nearly three months, during which time the cholera
was raging in the Malwa Jungle.1 Lieutenant F. D. Gray,
1 Malleson relates that Lord Elphinstone (Governor of Madras, 1837-42), who
was revisiting India in 1845-46, marched in company with the I4th Light Dragoons
O
2IO
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1846-
Lieutenant
Gall's recovery
from cholera.
Stampede at
Indore.
Arrival at
Agra, 27th
February.
Arrival at
Meerut, i6th
March 1846.
Arrival at
Umballa,
1 7th April.
i sergeant, i corporal, and 15 privates died in passing through
the jungles between Ahmednuggur and Mhow. Lieutenant
Herbert Gall had a most wonderful recovery. At some
halting-place en route he was left behind for dead, to be in-
terred, but it is said that some champagne brought him round.
He was actually being placed in a coffin, when he uttered
some ejaculation, and the hospital apothecary gave him
champagne, having been told by the surgeon to let him have
anything he asked for !
A very remarkable circumstance occurred during the four
days' halt of the Fourteenth at Indore. Owing to some display
of fireworks by the native prince, 250 of the troop-horses broke
loose in a stampede, and were not recovered for some days,
and then with the greatest difficulty. The terrified animals
broke away from their picquet-ropes in a dark night, and
scampered far and wide over the surrounding country. In
about 5 days, however, all were brought back, excepting
6 or 7, and these were afterwards discovered at Kirkee, over
400 miles away.
On 22nd and 27th February the Fourteenth entered Agra ;
on 4th March they proceeded to Meerut, and reached that
station on i6th March.
In April the march was continued towards Umballa, which
was reached about the i7th. On 2nd May, at Umballa,
Major-General Gilbert, Commanding Sirhind Division, made
a minute inspection of the Fourteenth in marching-order, and
expressed complete satisfaction at their turn-out and general
state.
On 8th September, Major J. W. King, previously in the
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, joined
the Fourteenth as Major vice Archer.
The Resident of Indore, Mr. R. N. C. Hamilton, wrote a
very complimentary letter, dated Camp Cheetawond, 7th
March 1846, in which he expressed his gratification at the
under Lieut-Colonel Havelock, his former Military Secretary, from Bombay through
Central India to the headquarters of the British army before Lahore.
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 211
excellent conduct of all ranks of the regiment when passing
through that district.
On ist December, Major-General Sir W. R. Gilbert, K.C.B.,
Commanding Sirhind Division, made his second half-yearly
inspection, and was very much pleased.
1847
On 7th January, at Umballa, Lieutenant-General Lord
Gough, Commander-in-Chief in India, inspected the Fourteenth,
and on the igth he visited the Cavalry Brigade, to which the
1 4th Light Dragoons belonged, and was pleased to express
his entire approbation of their appearance in the lines and in
barracks. On the yth May, Major-General Sir W. Gilbert
inspected the regiment in watering-order, which, he said, was
a most satisfactory turn-out, and he inspected again on the
1 6th December in complete marching-order.
On 3Oth March, Lieutenant Arthur Need was appointed to
the Fourteenth, and joined at Umballa, and on 23rd November
Captain H. E. Doherty became Major.
1848
The Fourteenth left Umballa on the i5th February for
Ferozepore, where they arrived on the 29th February, and Arrival at
remained there till about 1 3th August ; but the left wing, con- fnd°Shore
sisting of the 3rd and 4th squadrons, had been previously (Anarkuiiee).
detached to Anarkuiiee (Lahore) on the 8th May, and arrived
there on the i2th May. Strength — 10 officers, 213 men and
213 troop-horses.
The regiment was inspected at Ferozepore on 24th April
by Major-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, K.C.B., who
gave it great credit and was much pleased with its appearance.
On the ist June the 3rd squadron, 4 officers, 91 men and A squadron
horses, left Lahore under Major King on field-service, and sl
212 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1848
proceeded across the river Ravee to operate against Bahre
Maharajah and his adherents. The squadron returned to
Lahore on the 7th June. Lieutenant- Colonel Patrick Grant,1
Adjutant-General of the Army in India, by direction of the
Commander-in-Chief, wrote a very complimentary letter from
Simla as to the success achieved by this detachment in the
expedition across the Ravee, in which he spoke very highly
of the zealous exertions of both officers and men engaged.
The headquarters arrived in Lahore on the iQth August,
having left Ferozepore on the i4th.
The second Sikh campaign, which ended in the fall of the
Sikh power and the annexation of the Punjaub, shortly after
this broke out, and during the time the regiment was on field-
service with the army of the Punjaub (3rd November 1848 to
ist May 1849) a depot was formed at Anarkullee (Lahore) for
the baggage, regimental stores, and the women and children of
the regiment left behind.
Establishment, The establishment of the Fourteenth at this period was
horses°0p 9 troops, 56 sergeants, 12 trumpeters, 8 farriers, 40 corporals,
627 privates, and 701 troop-horses. There were 2 Lieutenant-
Colonels and 2 Majors, viz. Lieutenant - Colonels William
Havelock, K.H., and J. W. King (who had succeeded
Lieutenant - Colonel Harvey recently), and Majors H. C.
Doherty and Charles Steuart, the latter having been appointed
to succeed Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. King, promoted to the
second Lieutenant-Colonelcy.
Charge of The 1 4th Light Dragoons now took the field with Lord
za^Norem- Gough's Army of the Punjaub. They numbered 442 sabres
ber 1848. besides officers, and their first engagement with the enemy
took place at Ramnuggur, on the banks of the Chenab, on
the 22nd November 1848. Here the regiment, led by their
gallant Colonel, William Havelock, made those brilliant
charges, against overwhelming numbers of the enemy, which
Memory of the have since become matters of history. The memory of
fnnuafiy^n^he t^at glorious day has ever since been held sacred by the
Fourteenth. i Afterwards Field-Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
I
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 213
Fourteenth, and as year by year comes round the anniversary
is celebrated, especially in the sergeants' mess, where a ball or
other entertainment takes place. Past and present officers with
friends and guests are invited, and on these occasions it is the
time-honoured custom to revive old memories and stirring
scenes long past, by toasts and libations freely taken from the
celebrated ' Ramnuggur Cup,' a handsome silver bowl presented The Ram-
to the sergeants' mess, many years ago, by the gallant 5th n'
Light Cavalry who shared in the glories of that day, and
charged along with the Fourteenth as brave and trusty
comrades. The cup is emblematic of the occasion and has
a suitable inscription engraved upon it, with a glorious
list of the actions in which the regiment has been engaged
with the enemy, in their campaigns in the Peninsula, Punjaub,
Persia, and Central India, numbering no less than 28, as
follows : —
Douro. Chillianwallah. Betwa.
Talavera. Goojerat. Jhansi.
Fuentes d'Onor. Persia. Koonch.
Salamanca. Dhar. Golowlee.
Vittoria. Mundesor. Calpee.
Orthes. Rathgur. Morar.
Peninsula. Barodia. Gwalior.
Kolapore. Muddenpore Pass. Jowra-Alipore.
Punjaub. Chanderi. Ranode.
Ramnuggur.
Ramnuggur was essentially a cavalry affair, and was brought Description of
about by a reconnaissance in force under the Commander-in-
Chief in India, General Lord Gough, G.C.B., who intended
merely to reconnoitre the enemy and explore the fords of the
river in that locality. It was probably between the hours of I
and 2 P.M. in the afternoon, or perhaps earlier, when Lieutenant-
Colonel Havelock received his orders from a Staff Officer sent
by General Lord Gough, who was not far off, to charge the Sikh
cavalry that had crossed the river in large masses and were
2i4 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1848
clearly visible to our front. Havelock was thirsting for glory,
and to use his own expression, he felt the opportunity had come
to ' win his golden spurs.' He led off with 2 squadrons of the
Fourteenth in column of troops across the plain, and for half a
mile at least these squadrons were exposed during their advance
to an incessant fire from the Sikh guns posted on the banks of
the river. They then approached a steep bank leading down to
the nullah, a partially dry channel of the river, beyond which
lay the Sikh forces who had crossed the river from the right
bank and were posted on a sort of island formed by the main
channel of the river and a small stream. Here they undoubtedly
had guns in position and infantry entrenched, hitherto unseen
and quite unknown to us. As the Fourteenth came up to this
steep bank, each squadron in turn paused, thus causing some
temporary confusion in the ranks, but they soon plunged down,
following their gallant Colonel, forming squadrons and line on
the move as best they could, and galloped rapidly across the
nullah, charging the Sikhs, horse and foot. They were now
exposed to the close matchlock fire of the enemy, and as the
ground near the island was of a boggy nature, ill suited to
cavalry, water having recently subsided, many horses floundered
about and frequently got into difficulties, but the men rode
gallantly forward against the opposing Sikhs, sabring hundreds
of them and driving the ' Gorchurras ' (Sikh irregular cavalry)
back helter-skelter into the river and numerous channels
which ran up the creeks and banks on all sides. It was
now that Havelock perceived for the first time the large
bodies of infantry concealed in these dry channels running
along the bed of the river, and although his first attack had
been eminently successful in driving back the Gorchurras as
desired by Lord Gough, his characteristic dash and headlong
pluck seem to have overswayed his prudence and better
judgment, for without hesitation, brave leader that he was, he
determined, notwithstanding the overwhelming odds against
him and the adverse circumstances in which he was placed, to
make another charge, and assail the heart of the Sikh position.
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 215
Accordingly, he retired his men a little and re-formed the
squadrons, which by this time had been reinforced by another
squadron of the Fourteenth, as well as by a considerable body
of the 5th Light Cavalry under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander, and placing himself in front of the line, Havelock
once more boldly advanced to meet the foe. The squadrons
were exposed to a murderous fire from the batteries on the
right bank of the river, as well as from the guns posted on the
island, yet nothing daunted they charged right into the centre
of the Sikhs, driving them back towards the river, and sabring
right and left in a desperate m£lde which ensued. They were
also confronted with the fire of the matchlock men, both horse
and foot, who slowly retired disputing every inch of the ground.
Both regiments behaved splendidly, and it was not to be
wondered at that both lost heavily, the total number of casualties
in each regiment being about equal in proportion to the numbers
of each engaged. The gallant but too daring chief of the Death of
Fourteenth fell in this attack, and not less than 74 men, includ- wm
ing officers, with 96 horses, were placed hors cie combat. Oflock»K-H
these numbers the i4th Light Dragoons had 44 men (including
6 officers) and 56 horses either killed, wounded, or missing,
whilst no less than 30 men (including 3 officers) and 40 horses
belonging to the 5th Light Cavalry bit the dust. The numbers
of the Fourteenth engaged were about 350 sabres. It was a
short but very sanguinary business. Colonel Havelock's body
was found and fully identified, though headless, about twelve
days after the engagement. It was lying with the bodies of
9 troopers of the Fourteenth heaped on it, showing that his men
had rallied round and fought for their chief. His left arm and
leg were nearly severed, as well as the thumb of his right hand.
Captain Fitzgerald of the Fourteenth was mortally wounded
in the m$tte and died subsequently : one of his sword-cuts pene-
trated the brain and another the spine. Major Doherty brought
the charging squadrons out of action, and Lieutenant-Colonel
King, who had been ordered to command the support when the
Fourteenth advanced, came up just at the right moment with
2l6
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1848
Casualties at
Ramnuggur.
a squadron which formed a welcome nucleus for the other
squadrons to form on. Alas ! the brave Havelock was not
amongst them. He was last heard of wounded and hacked at
by several Sikhs in the melte.
As Ramnuggur was considered merely an affair of outposts
and a purely cavalry fight, no honorary distinction was conferred
for it, but none the less most will concede that these charges
of the 1 4th Light Dragoons and 5th Light Cavalry deserve a
high place amongst cavalry charges delivered under unfavour-
able circumstances. The Sikhs were immensely superior in
cavalry, besides being assembled in great force with infantry
and artillery posted and partially entrenched beyond a nullah,
having the further advantage of a sandy river-bed and boggy
ground between them and the attacking squadrons. Hence it
is that the memory of Ramnuggur has always been held very
dear by all in the Fourteenth, and both Havelock and his
brave companions-in-arms have ever been reckoned heroes by
succeeding generations of those serving in the regiment.
The casualties of the regiment in this affair were as
follows : —
i officer (Lieutenant- Colonel William Havelock,
K.H.).1
K'll dJ I ser£eant (J°hn Harwood).
i corporal.
12 privates.
.37 horses.
5 officers — Captain). F. Fitzgerald,2 very severely.
Captain R. H. Gall, severely.
Captain A. Scudamore, slightly.
Lieutenant William McMahon, severely.
Wounded ( Cornet the Hon. R. W. Chetwynd,
slightly.
4 sergeants.
1 8 privates.
Vi5 horses.
1 Lieutenant- Col on el Havelock was officially reported ' Missing.'
2 Captain Fitzgerald died of his wounds a few days afterwards.
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 217
Missing j '
'2 rank and file.
[4 horses.
The 5th Light Cavalry had
1 non-commissioned officer and 1 2 privates killed.
2 officers and 1 5 privates wounded.
40 horses killed and wounded.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander lost his arm by
a round-shot which killed the Quartermaster- Sergeant and
wounded Lieutenant Reilly in the foot. The 3rd Light
Dragoons and 8th Light Cavalry, who had made some charges
against the Sikh Gorchurras at an earlier part of the day, but
had not crossed the nullah, suffered very slight casualties.
The 3rd Light Dragoons had 5 privates wounded and 3 or 4
horses struck by round-shot ; the 8th Light Cavalry lost a
subadar-major killed; and the i2th Irregular Cavalry had
Captain Holmes wounded. The troop of Horse Artillery, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Lane, which lost a gun and a couple of
wagons about the time of the advance of the 3rd Light
Dragoons and 8th Light Cavalry, only had i private wounded
and 4 horses killed. Amongst the staff, Brigadier-General
C. R. Cureton, C.B., commanding the Cavalry Division, who
was a very distinguished cavalry leader with brilliant war
services, was shot in the chest and killed, and Lieutenant
Hardinge, Aide-de-Camp, was wounded.
It will be seen by the above list of casualties that the losses
of the Fourteenth were much heavier than those of any
other regiment engaged, and there is no doubt that they
and the 5th Light Cavalry had the brunt of the affair
all to themselves. It is true the 3rd Light Dragoons and
8th Light Cavalry charged across the plain several hours
before the charges of the Fourteenth took place, and the Sikh
Irregular Cavalry (Gorchurras) retreated before them, but
neither regiment penetrated into the position of the Sikh
forces posted beyond the nullah, as it is believed Brigadier
White did not consider the ground suitable for cavalry, and
218 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1848
was induced to retire his brigade from the ground subsequently
crossed by Havelock, in the exercise, as was afterwards proved,
of a very wise and soldierly judgment. This would naturally
account for their lighter list of casualties.
Brigadier The lamented loss of Brigadier Charles Robert Cureton,
Cureton, CB^! C.B., A.D.C., which occurred about the time of Colonel
i6th Lancers. Havelock's second attack, deserves more than a passing notice,
not only on account of his great reputation as a brilliant cavalry
officer, already distinguished in former campaigns, but also
because of his old connection with the i4th Light Dragoons
in which he enlisted when a youth under the name of ' Charles
Roberts,' serving with them in the Peninsula. The probably
true and authentic account of Cureton's death is as follows : —
He was riding at the time along with the Commander-in-Chief
(Lord Gough) and the rest of his staff, among whom were
Lieut-Colonel J. B. Gough,1 officiating Quarter master- General,
(in India) and Major F. P. Haines,2 Military Secretary. Follow-
ing closely was the chiefs personal escort, a troop of the 5th
Light Cavalry. Cureton, perceiving that Havelock was forming
up his squadrons with the evident intention of making another
charge, and not approving of this under the circumstances, rode
off hurriedly to stop him, but was almost immediately shot dead
by a bullet which struck him in the chest. This version of
Cureton's death is strongly corroborated by an original letter
in the handwriting of the late General Sir J. B. Gough, G.C.B.
(then Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Gough), who says in the letter,
dated 23rd November 1848, ' Poor Cureton was shot dead
within five yards of me and close to Lord Gough.' This is
certainly at variance somewhat with the statement in Brigadier-
General C. Campbell's despatch quoted in Appendix A, page
569, but it agrees with the well-known water-colour picture by
Henry Martens of the ' Charge of the I4th Light Dragoons at
Ramnuggur,' and the engravings of that picture by Harris,
published by Rudolph Ackermann of 191 Regent Street, in
1 Afterwards General Sir John B. Gough, G.C.B.
J Now Field-Marshal Sir Frederick P. Haines, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., C.I.E.
1848] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 219
1 85 1,1 where Cureton is depicted as shot in the throat and
chest as he was galloping over the plain towards the charging
squadrons, apparently in the endeavour to deliver some
message or order. We can only conclude therefore that the
allusion in Brigadier Campbell's despatch was written under
some slight misapprehension or confusion of details.
General Brotherton gives the following account of Brigadier
Cureton as he knew him in the Peninsula, amongst his interest-
ing episodes. The General writes as follows : —
' I went out to the Peninsula in command of a troop, and
that troop produced besides numerous brave and good soldiers
an extraordinary man, notorious throughout the service for
bravery and intelligence. He afterwards became Brigadier-
General Cureton, so highly extolled in Major-General Sir
Harry Smith's despatch on the battle of Aliwal. He served
all through the Peninsular War in the I4th Light Dragoons,
and there learned the rudiments of outpost duty, for his con-
summate knowledge of which he is so highly praised by Sir
Harry Smith.2 Baron Osten perfectly recollects a dialogue
that passed between Corporal Cureton and me, in Portugal,
he under the name of " Roberts/' in which he had enlisted.
1 Cureton, the son of most respectable parents, tradespeople
in Lancashire, became first a corporal in my troop, and then a
sergeant. He distinguished himself daily in the field, but being,
moreover, a well-educated young man, and a particularly good
penman, Lord Fitzroy Somerset asked for him to go to head-
quarters, to write in his office. I reluctantly parted with him,
and even tried to dissuade him from going, representing to him
that as we were then daily engaged with the enemy, he would
1 At the foot of these coloured engravings a quotation from the Illustrated London
News of 27th January 1849 is usually printed, giving some account of the supposed
third charge of the Fourteenth at Ramnuggur, which it is clearly proved never took
place. See p. 221.
2 ' The manner in which this famous officer handles his cavalry, under the hottest
and most galling fire, ranks him amongst the first cavalry officers of his age.' — (Sir
Harry Smith's despatches Battles of Aliwal and Sobraon, 28th January and loth
February 1846.)
220 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1848
have such frequent opportunities of distinguishing himself as
would infallibly lead to promotion, and bring him conspicuously
into notice. His better star, however, prevailed, and he did
go to headquarters, where he was not only employed in writing,
but acted as mounted orderly to Lord Fitzroy Somerset in all
the subsequent battles. His merit being very conspicuous, he
soon got a commission, ultimately became Adjutant-General
in the East Indies, witnessing all the late operations in that part
of the world, was in the unfortunate Cabul expedition, shared,
most conspicuously, in many glorious fights against the Sikhs,
and fell at last on the battlefield of Ramnuggur, when in the
act of distinguishing himself. It was by a most extraordinary
chance he fell gloriously with his old corps, the i4th Light
Dragoons, which he had left many years before.
' His modesty was equal to his bravery, for though he had
become a most distinguished person, and had been mainly
instrumental by his daring and judicious management of the
cavalry in gaining the critical and glorious battle of Aliwal
under Sir Harry Smith, yet his modesty, and I may say
humility, were remarkable.
'On his return once to England, Lord Fitzroy Somerset
invited him to meet me at dinner at his house, and though he
had perfectly the manners of a gentleman, though risen from
the ranks, he never presumed, and showed me the same
deference and respect as when he was a corporal in my troop.
When the clasps for the battles in the Peninsula were issued,
instead of sending in his application for his share of them
(which was every battle that had been fought, as he had been
present at all of them) through the regular channel, and direct
to Horse Guards, by way of paying me a compliment he sent
it through me, saying that " I knew his services better than
any one."
The affair of Ramnuggur is very graphically described in the
Illustrated London Newssi 2 ;th January 1849, where two letters
from correspondents are published, one from 'Eyewitness, 'dated
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 221
25th November 1848, and one from 'An Officer of Bengal
Horse Artillery,' dated ist December 1848. In Appendix A,
pages 561-567, extracts from these are published, as they
appear reliable and are in accordance with the recollections
of officers now living who were present and took part in the
events of the day. They also coincide in most respects with
the narrative of Ramnuggur given at pages 205-209 of The
Sikhs and the Sikh Wars, by General Sir Charles Gough,
V.C., G.C.B., and A. D. Innes, M.A. (published in 1897), with
one obvious discrepancy, and this demands some mention here.
In 'Eyewitness's' letter in the Illustrated London News there
is a detailed account given of a supposed third attack and charge
made by the i4th Light Dragoons and led by Lieutenant-
Colonel King after Havelock fell. There appears to be no
corroboration whatever of this charge, and absolutely no other
authority for it. The incident has therefore been altogether
omitted in the extracts published in the Appendix. If such a
charge had taken place, surely some of the survivors with whom
the author has had the advantage of both personal conversation
and correspondence would know of it. Again, the ' Regimental
Digest of Services ' kept in the orderly-room of the regiment
states distinctly ' the regiment made two charges ' ; and in The
Sikhs and the Sikh Wars there is no allusion to such an event,
for it is stated at page 209, after mentioning Cureton's death,
' Before any fresh order could be despatched, Havelock had
made the second fatal charge, and the horses began to flounder
in the sandy river-bed. The Sikhs swarmed down on them ;
and though the brigade succeeded in cutting its way back,
Havelock was slain.' Now, Sir Charles Gough, one of the
authors of this work, was one of the officers who on that day
charged with the 8th Light Cavalry at Ramnuggur, and was
also an eyewitness of the charge of the Fourteenth. The
official account given in the Regimental Records above alluded
to is as follows : —
*22nd November 1848. Ramnuggur. — The regiment made
two successive charges, in the latter against an overwhelming
222
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Extract from
the Regimental
Digest of
Services of the
I4th (King's)
Hussars.
'Ramnuggur.'
Lieutenant-
Colonel —
J. W. King.
force of cavalry and infantry, and exposed to the fire of three
batteries.' Surely the above is sufficient to prove that there
never was a third charge as described in the letter in the
Illustrated London News, which was probably written hastily
and without full and reliable information of the actual facts,
so misleading on a field of battle to observers from different
points of view, — indeed an advance of cavalry at a rapid pace
might easily be mistaken for a charge by any one witnessing it
from a distance.1
In the Illustrated London News account there is one other
point, but of less importance, which appears at variance with
facts. It is the statement in the ' Bengal Horse Artillery
Officer's ' letter, which seems to connect closely the loss of the
gun and wagons of Lieutenant-Colonel Lane's troop of Horse
Artillery with the charges of the i4th Light Dragoons. The
real version of this incident appears to be that the gun stuck
in the sand, and had to be abandoned at an earlier part of the
day than that at which the Fourteenth made their two charges,
in the second of which they were supported by the 5th Light
Cavalry. The contretemps of the gun sticking in the sand
probably happened at the time the charge under Brigadier-
General Michael White of the 3rd Light Dragoons took place,
and when the latter regiment with the 8th Light Cavalry
advanced across the plain, driving back the Sikh cavalry to
the bank of the nullah, but thence retired in good order, not
deeming a further advance advisable.
On 23rd November, Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. King suc-
ceeded to the command of the Fourteenth ; on the 28th Novem-
ber, Major H. E. Doherty became second Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Captain William Clarke, who had risen from the ranks,
became Major. Subsequently Lieutenant-Colonels King and
1 Even Captain Apthorp in his remarks (published in Appendix A, p. 569, etc.)
speaks of three charges, but he explains that he calls the advance of Havelock
before his first change of front a charge. As Captain Apthorp was Adjutant of the
I4th Light Dragoons at the time, he would be the person to make the entry in the
' Digest of Services,' under the orders of the commanding officer of the regiment,
and the entry is, 'The regiment made two successive charges.'
1848] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 223
Doherty were each awarded a Companionship of the Order of
the Bath.
After the affair of Ramnuggur the whole army remained Movements of
i 1-1 -11 i i XT i i 11 the British after
there watching the enemy till the 3Otn November, when a body Ramnuggur.
of troops was despatched at midnight, under Major-General Sir
Joseph Thackwell (a Waterloo veteran), to Wazirabad ford, 22
miles up the river, and effected a passage of the Chenab at that
point. There were two safe fords nearer than Wazirabad,
namely Ghurriki, 7 miles from Ramnuggur, but 4000 Sikhs
held this ; another higher up at Runniki was also guarded.
There was yet another, higher up still, at Ali-Shor-Ke-Chuk,
but it was dangerous, the stream being too rapid. The division
that was sent under Sir Joseph Thackwell consisted of White's
Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Light Dragoons, 5th and 8th Light
Cavalry, and 2 Irregular Native Cavalry Regiments, in place
of the Fourteenth, with Colin Campbell's Infantry Brigade,
consisting of Her Majesty's 24th and 6ist Foot, and 5 Regiments
of Native Infantry ; also 30 field-guns and 2 heavy guns. The
whole force crossed over from the left bank safely on the ist
and 2nd December, and commenced to march down the right
bank in the direction of Ramnuggur, with a view to driving
out the Sikhs from their position opposite our camp, for our
evacuation of Ramnuggur was out of the question whilst they
remained there, as such a step would leave the way to Lahore
unguarded. By the evening of the 2nd December, Major-
General Sir Joseph Thackwell had reached within 9 miles of the
Sikh position on the right bank, and having driven off the out-
posts from the fords at Ghurriki and elsewhere, had established
communication with Lord Gough at Ramnuggur. On the 3rd Saduiapore,
December, Thackwell moved to Saduiapore, sending a sufficient
force to guard the Ghurriki ford, whence reinforcements were
expected under Brigadier Godby. Shere Singh, at this juncture,
late in the afternoon of the 3rd December, came forward with
his troops, occupying a strong position, covered by sugar-cane
fields lying in front of him, and the British accordingly fell back
somewhat to gain better ground, but the Sikhs did not come
224 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
Retreat of the on. A cannonade on both sides was maintained till evening,
Ramnug^r to and when darkness set in Shere Singh retired from his entrench-
*rd December ments> carrying with him his artillery, setting fire to his
1848. magazine, and withdrawing his whole army northwards. He
afterwards took up a strong position covered by jungle near
the banks of the Jhelum. The losses incurred at Sadulapore
by our force were slight, being about 80 men killed and
wounded. The Sikhs suffered heavily : it is believed their losses
were ten times as great as ours, owing to the greater precision of
our artillery fire. On hearing of the retreat of the Sikh army,
Lord Gough at once pushed forward across the Chenab as a
pursuing force the 9th Lancers and i4th Light Dragoons, and
these troops joined Sir Joseph Thackwell's main body. The
Sikhs, it appears, retreated in the greatest disorder, leaving in
the villages numerous wounded men. They subsequently
divided into three divisions, which became more a rout than a
retreat. The i4th Light Dragoons arrived at Camp Heylah on
4th December, and were at once sent by orders of Major-
General Sir JosephThackwell along the road to Dinghi. The
9th Lancers took another route, to try and come up with the
fugitive Sikhs, but they were reported to have gone over
the Jhelum, so the cavalry returned to Heylah without having
effected anything decisive.
1849
The beginning of the new year found the regiment in camp
at Heylah, the depot troop being at Maidstone with a strength
of 103 men.
On 1 2th January, Lord Gough's army advanced on Chillian-
isth January ' wallah, and next day was fought that sanguinary battle in which,
after several hours' desperate fighting, the British forces held
their ground, having gained a somewhat indecisive victory, and
bivouacked on the battlefield. Our losses were 2357 men and
176 horses, of whom 1000 were Europeans, including 89 officers.
1849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 225
The killed alone were about 700 of all ranks. On the other
hand the Sikhs, whose men and guns considerably outnumbered
ours, lost heavily in killed and wounded — 1000 killed, 2000
wounded. Of the latter many died subsequently. The enemy
was not absolutely driven off the field, but remained in an
entrenched position about 2 miles from the British camp,
having his centre at Russool village and his right flank resting
on the Jhelum.
Lord Cough's army at the battle of Chillianwallah was com-
posed as follows : —
Cavalry Division. — Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell,
K.C.B., commanding.
\st Brigade. — Brigadier M. White :
3rd Light Dragoons,
5th and 8th Light Cavalry.
2nd Brigade. — Brigadier Pope :
9th Lancers,
1 4th Light Dragoons,
ist and 6th Regiments Light Cavalry.
The European cavalry regiments numbered about 400
men each, the Native cavalry 300, effective in the field.
Infantry (2nd Division}1 under Major-General Sir Walter
Gilbert, K.C.B.
ist Brigade. — Brigadier Mountain :
Her Majesty's 29th Regiment,
The 3oth and 56th Regiments Native Infantry.
2nd Brigade. — Brigadier Godby :
2nd European Regiment,
The 3 ist and 7oth Regiments Native Infantry.
$rd Division. — Brigadier General Colin Campbell, com-
manding.
ist Brigade. — Brigadier Pennycuick :
Her Majesty's 24th Regiment,
The 25th and 45th Regiments Native Infantry.
1 The ist Division of the army of the Punjaub was employed in the siege of
Mooltan.
P
226 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
2nd Brigade. — Brigadier Hoggan :
Her Majesty's 6ist Regiment,
The 36th and 46th Regiments Native Infantry.
^rd Brigade. — Brigadier Penny :
The 1 5th, 2Oth, and 69th Regiments Native
Infantry. Artillery Division, under Brigadier Tennant :
Six troops of Horse Artillery under Brigadier Brooke,
with Colonels Brind and C. Grant ; the troops re-
spectively under Lieutenant-Colonel Lane, Majors
Christie, Huish, Warner, Duncan, and Fordyce.
Two batteries of four i8-pounders and two 8-inch
howitzers each, under Majors R. Shakespeare and
Ludlow ; Major Horsford commanding.
Three field batteries : No. 5, commanded by Lieutenant
Walker in the absence of Captain Kinleside, sick ;
No. 10, commanded by Lieutenant Robertson, in
the absence of Captain Austin, wounded ; and No.
17, commanded by Major Dawes.
The Foot Artillery, under Brigadier Huthwaite.
The European Infantry numbered about 900 each, and the
Native Infantry about 700. Her Majesty's 24th, an exception-
ally strong regiment, turned out 1000 men in the field. The
Sikhs were lying with the Jhelum behind them, on the west,
occupying a group of villages protected by jungle, with their
left reaching to Russool, where there was a belt of hills.
Chillianwallah, in advance of the line, was held only by their
outposts. Lord Cough's intention was to march from Dinghi
to Chillianwallah, drive in the outposts, and defer the attack
till next day, when he had gained more accurate information
of the position of the enemy.
At 7 A.M. on 1 3th January he advanced from Dinghi with
his army formed in line of contiguous columns. By 12 o'clock
he drove in the enemy's outposts. The Sikh position, which
was entrenched, stretched from Russool on their left to Moong
on their right, and Lord Gough decided to encamp, reconnoitre
the position, and give battle on the following day. Whilst
1849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 227
preparations for laying out the camp were in progress the
Sikhs opened fire with their guns, and advanced beyond their
entrenchments, whereupon the British general gave orders to
prepare for immediate action. For the first hour the battle
was an artillery duel, in which the enemy had the advantage
both of position and of guns. At about half-past three in the
afternoon our advance commenced.
The cavalry were on our flanks — White's on the left, Pope's
on the right. Hoggan's Brigade was on the left of the line,
with Pennycuick's next, both under Colin Campbell ; then came
Mountain's, and then Godby's, both under Gilbert, with
Penny's Brigade (the 3rd of Campbell's Division) in reserve.
The artillery were ranged — in the centre the heavy batteries ;
attached to Campbells Division — 3 troops Horse Artillery
(Brind), and Walker's and Robertson's field-batteries, both
under Major Mowatt ; attached to Gilbert's Division — 3 troops
Horse Artillery (Grant) and Dawes's field-battery.
On the enemy's side, the Sikh line extended for about 6
miles, covered by thick jungle, and with their right consider-
ably overlapping the British left.
At the commencement of the general advance, Campbell,
seeing the intricate nature of the ground to his front, covered
as it was by thick jungle, directed his Brigadier Penny-
cuick to act independently with his Brigade, and he himself
accompanied Hoggan with the other (left) brigade of his
Division. Robertson's field-battery, which should have acted
with Hoggan's Brigade, was sent off early in the action, by
orders of a staff-officer, to the left of our line, to help the Horse
Artillery who were trying ineffectually to silence the Sikh guns
on their left front ; at the same time Pennycuick's Brigade
advanced at such a rapid pace that it got in front of Mowatt's
field-battery, which should have accompanied it, and conse-
quently the latter could not give the required assistance to that
brigade, but was enabled to render most important services to
the other brigade (Hoggan's), which had lost its own field-
battery (Robertson's) as above stated. This field-battery had
228 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
silenced the Sikh guns which were engaged with Brind's Horse
Artillery, and then tried to rejoin Campbell's Division. Penny-
cuick's Brigade in their rapid advance soon got into very
difficult ground, and came under a terrible fire, first of round-
shot and then of grape, to which the centre regiment, Her
Majesty's 24th, were principally exposed, and the enemy keep-
ing behind trees and thick bushes was completely screened
from view, so that the losses of that gallant regiment were
most severe. Still, nothing daunted, the brigade pushed on, and
at length came in view of the Sikh guns. There still remained
some swampy and very difficult ground to be traversed before
they made the final charge right up to the cannons' mouth.
Brigadier Pennycuick and many officers and men fell in this
last attack, and although the 2 Native Infantry Regiments were
advancing with the 24th Regiment, the Brigade lost so heavily
that it had to retire to a position clear of the jungle. The
24th Regiment had lost their Colonel (Brookes) close to the
guns, 13 of their officers were killed and 10 were wounded,
while no less than 231 men were killed and 266 wounded.
The Native Regiments also suffered heavy losses.
Meanwhile Mowatt's field-battery had covered the advance
of Hoggan's Brigade, led by Campbell, who had advanced with
great care and regularity through the difficult ground he had to
traverse. Her Majesty's 6ist had scattered the Sikh cavalry
on their front; the 36th Native Infantry were attacked on their
flank by a large body of Sikhs, but rescued by 2 companies of
the 6ist Regiment, who captured 2 of the enemy's guns. The
46th Native Infantry were opposed on the left by a large body
of Sikh cavalry, but repulsed them under their leader, Major
Tudor. Later the Sikhs brought up fresh cavalry and 2 more
guns against the right of Hoggan's Brigade at the time it had
first been driven back, but the Brigade rapidly changed front
and drove the enemy opposed to them off the ground. They
captured in all 13 guns, after some very severe hand-to-hand
fighting, in which the Brigadier himself received a severe
sword-cut on his right arm.
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 229
On our extreme left, White's Cavalry Brigade had advanced
at same time as Campbell's Division. The ground was wholly
unsuitable to the action of cavalry, and they were exposed
to a heavy fire of round-shot during their advance, and con-
sequently no great success resulted. After remaining in
support of the Horse Artillery for some time, Major-General
Sir Joseph Thackwell had ordered an attack. It was at the
time that the Sikh battery, as already related, had been
silenced. The Grey Squadron of the 3rd Light Dragoons
with the 5th Light Cavalry advanced, led by Captains Unett
and Wheatley. The 5th Light Cavalry came upon a large
body of Sikhs, and being exposed to heavy musketry fire,
were repulsed, and had to retire ; but the 3rd Light Dragoons,
Unett's squadron, swept on gallantly right through to the
enemy's rear, and after a splendid charge, had to cut their
way back, suffering severe loss — 23 men killed, 2 officers and
15 men wounded, 15 horses killed and missing, 7 horses
wounded.
After this affair, Sir Joseph Thackwell detached a troop of
Horse Artillery (Warner's) and a squadron of the 8th Light
Cavalry to support Hoggan's Brigade, and he himself with
the remainder of his cavalry gave what support he could to
Campbell's Division, moving on its left for the rest of the day.
Now to turn to the right and right-centre of the British line :
we find that Sir Walter Gilbert was preparing to advance
shortly after Campbell's Division had done so. On the extreme
right was Pope's Cavalry Brigade with 3 troops of Horse
Artillery under Colonel C. Grant ; then Godby's (infantry)
Brigade, then Mountain's, with Dawes's battery between them.
Brigadier Pope observing a considerable body of Sikh cavalry
on the heights about Russool, detached a wing from each of
the ist and 6th Light Cavalry, a wing from the Qth Lancers,
and 8 Horse Artillery guns, retaining the other wing of each
regiment, and the whole of the I4th Light Dragoons with the
rest of the guns ; he sent the detached troops to his right flank
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lane, with orders
230 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
to protect that flank and to act as occasion demanded.1 The
Brigadier then advanced with his 9 squadrons and 10 guns on
the right of Gilbert's Division in one line, without any supports
or reserves, thus : —
Advance of Pope's Cavalry Brigade.
IMth Light DragoOHfc 6th Lu Cavalry, ist Lt. Cavalry, oth Lancers,
. x --..,-- --1= xj Squadrons. ij Squadrons. 2 SquadnM,
und« lieot. Lionel ^^ Major
, . ~ «"^s» tmmi «,»NIU TI__ r— ,,,»
6 guns under 4 guns under King, Hope Urant.
Major Huish. Major
Christie.
Very soon a body of Sikh horse was observed in front, and
the guns were pushed forward, but, whilst they were getting
into action, Pope came on with the cavalry, passed in front of
them, and so masked their fire. The ground was particularly
unsuited to the advance of a long line of cavalry, owing to its
jungly nature and from being so full of obstructions, which
made it very difficult for the squadrons to keep in touch and
act in concert There was no real charge made by the cavalry,
but they were advancing as best they could and as the difficult
nature of the ground permitted, when all of a sudden there
was a distinct order given to retire by the command * Threes
about,' which was heard proceeding from the centre of the
line where the Native cavalry was posted. The centre of the
Brigade went about, the command was quickly taken up by the
whole line, and a retrograde movement took place which was
carried out at an increased pace for a considerable distance
before the line was halted and re-formed. This withdrawal of
the cavalry left the Horse Artillery guns (commanded by
Majors Christie and Huish) wholly unprotected, and they
retired with the cavalry, but the Sikh horsemen coming up
cut down several of the gunners, and captured 4 guns, 2
1 This body of Cavalry and Horse Artillery under Lieutenant-Colonel Lane acted
quite independently of the remainder of Pope's Brigade, and no connection was
kept up with the latter during the battle.
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 231
wagons, and 53 horses, besides rendering the 6 other guns
useless for the day. The whole occurrence is shrouded in
mystery : it may have been partly caused by a sudden panic
to which the best of troops are at times liable, but it seems
far more likely that the manner in which the brigade was
handled was the real cause and origin of what happened. The
Horse Artillery suffered the greatest loss : Major Christie was
badly wounded and died soon afterwards, 7 of his men were
killed, and 2 were wounded ; in Huish's troop 5 were killed
and 5 wounded ; in the Cavalry Brigade, Brigadier Pope was
badly wounded and had to be conducted off the field ; and
the cavalry regiments lost 2 officers, 2 native officers and
1 1 men killed, 2 officers and 30 men wounded. Owing to
the brigade having advanced without any supports or reserves
whatever, there was no point for the retiring squadrons to
rally on, which added considerably to the confusion, and ren-
dered the matter far more serious than it otherwise would
have been.1 This incident occurred just as Sir W. Gilbert
was leading his Division to the attack, Dawes and his
field-battery being in line with the skirmishers in the front ;
and Gilbert, when he perceived his right flank suddenly
uncovered by the absence of the cavalry, had to refuse his
right (Godby's) Brigade in order, to some extent, to protect
it. The troops of this Division behaved most steadily, and
Mountain's Brigade (on the left) continued their advance
covered by the fire of No. 17 Field Battery, charging and
taking a Sikh battery in front of the village of Lullianee.
Godby's Brigade had also charged and carried some guns to
its front, when their rear was suddenly attacked : this was
caused by the unguarded flank left after the withdrawal of Pope's
cavalry, hence Godby had to face his men to their rear, being
literally surrounded by the enemy. At this juncture Dawes's
battery came up and poured in a heavy fire on the Sikh horse-
men who were about to charge, which drove them back. The
1 See Appendix A, p. 573, etc,
232 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
2nd Bengal Europeans1 under Major Steele then charged a
body of the enemy who were still threatening the rear, and
after a sharp struggle successfully repulsed them. The same
occurred in Mountain's Brigade, which was also compelled to
face about and drive off the enemy from its rear; and soon
afterwards Colin Campbell with Hoggan's Brigade and White's
cavalry, as well as the whole of the artillery of the left, moved
up and joined in the fight on the right.
Penny's Brigade, which had been ordered up from the
reserve when the disaster happened to Pennycuick's Brigade,
lost its way in the jungle, and afterwards came up on the right
of Godby's Brigade about the time when it was attacked in
rear by the enemy. This brigade was threatened on its
right flank and in front by large bodies of Sikhs, but was
rescued by the fire of Dawes's field-battery, which happened
to be there at the right moment, and promptly drove the
enemy off. The whole of the British artillery now opened
fire on the masses of the Sikhs who were retreating in dis-
order upon Tupai, and Lieutenant-Colonel Lane, who had
not taken any active part in the battle since he was detached,
as already related, to the right flank, by Brigadier Pope's
order, with his Horse Artillery and 5 squadrons of cavalry,2
now appeared, and poured in a heavy fire where he observed
the enemy in retreat, thus rendering valuable aid at the close
of the battle.3
Casualties of The losses of the Fourteenth at Chillianwallah were as
1 4th Light . „
Dragoons at follows I
Chillianwallah.
t Officer (Lieutenant A. J. Cureton).
Killed \ i Man.
2 Horses.
1 Now the 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers.
2 Two squadrons gih Lancers and three squadrons from the 1st and 6th Regi-
ments of Light Cavalry (one and a half squadrons from each). Lane also had his
own 6 guns, and 2 guns detached from Christie's troop of Horse Artillery.
3 This account of the battle of Chillianwallah is mostly taken from Cough's and
Innes's Sikhs and Sikh Wars, some of it almost verbatim.
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 233
1 Officer (Major C. Steuart).
Wounded •[ 14 Men.
2 Horses.
2 Men.
,,. . f 2 Men.
Missing J
\ 4 Horses.
During the whole of the two days following the battle, Movements of
being the I4th and I5th January, rain fell incessantly, and 2teerl chmSJT
during this time the melancholy task of burying the deadwallah-
was carried out by the troops. Afterwards the two armies
lay at Russool and Chillianwallah watching one another, Lord
Gough being determined to wait for the fall of Mooltan, so
as to get the reinforcements from the south, especially as the
enemy had already received large accessions of force under
Chutter Singh. The Sikhs began to evacuate Russool on nth
February and fell back on the J helum. They subsequently turned
and made an endeavour to cross the Chenab near Wazirabad,
but Major- General Whish's column coming from Mooltan
forestalled them there, and they had to take up a position on
the plain between the two rivers near Goojerat. By the i4th
the whole of the Sikhs had left their encampments at Russool.
Accordingly on the i5th Lord Gough moved to Lassoorie,
whence, pushing forward a column to guard the ford at Wazir-
abad, he moved on i6th to Pukee Nuggar and Sadulapore.
By the 2Oth, Major-General Whish's troops from Mooltan
(which city fell on 25th January) having come up, the army,
now complete, was concentrated under Lord Gough at Shadiwal
and Kunjah, the Sikhs being at Goojerat a little to the north
of that position.
Our forces numbered 25,000 men with 96 guns. The com-
bined Sikh armies under Chutter Singh and Shere Singh are
believed to have numbered from 50,000 to 60,000 men, and
they had 60 guns. Of the latter we subsequently captured or
destroyed 53 guns at Goojerat.
The battle of Goojerat was fought on the 2ist February Battle of
1 849, and the arrival of the Mooltan army gave Lord Gough ^Feb.' 1849.
234 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
that preponderance in artillery which he desired. The forces
under his command were as follows :—
There were in the first place the same regiments which had
been present at Chillianwallah. The divisional commanders
were as before; but Brigadier Penny was now in command
of what had been Godby's Brigade in Gilbert's Division, while
Penny's and Pennycuick's Brigades, in Campbell's Division,
were commanded by Carnegie and M'Leod.
To these were added the ist Infantry Division, under Whish,
with Brigadier Markham in command of the 32nd Foot and
the 49th and 5ist Native Infantry, and Hervey in command
of the loth Foot and the 8th and 72nd Native Infantry ; also
Dundas's Bombay column, 6oth Rifles, 3rd Bombay Native
Infantry, Bombay Fusiliers, and i9th Native Infantry. The
Scinde Horse and 4 regiments of irregulars were added to
the cavalry. The artillery, under Brigadier Tennant, now
numbered 96 guns, 18 being of heavy calibre. The engineers
and sappers were under command of Major-General Cheape,
who had returned with Major- General Whish from Mooltan.1
The Sikhs were drawn up in the form of a rough crescent,
facing nearly due south. Their right flank lay across a deep
dry nullah which curved round the city behind them and
covered part of their front, then took a sharp turn south, and
passed through the centre of the British encampment. Their
left reached to a smaller nullah full of water, which ran south
into the Chenab. Their cavalry, Afghan horsemen chiefly,
extended beyond the nullahs on right and left. The villages
of Kalra and Chota Kalra, lying between the nullahs, had
been occupied, fortified, and loop-hooled with great skill by
the Sikhs.
Position of The British faced them, looking north, their line divided
^rmy.G°ugh's bY the great nullah. Gilbert's Division was on the right next
to this nullah, having Mountain's Brigade on the left and
Penny's on the right. Beyond Gilbert on the right was
1 The above is taken almost verbatim from The Sikhs and the Sikh Wars, as
well as much that follows in the account of the battle.
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 235
Whish's Division, with Hervey's Brigade in the front line and
Markham's in the second. On the right flank were the Cavalry
Brigades of Lockwood and Hearsey.
On Gilbert's left was the heavy battery of 18 guns ; Whish
was supported by 3 troops Horse Artillery, with Dawes's
battery and 2 troops Horse Artillery for the time in reserve.
The cavalry were supported by Warner's troop of Horse
Artillery.
On the left of the nullah was Campbell's Division, with
Carnegie and M'Leod in the front line and Hoggan in second
line, supporting Dundas and the Bombay column on the left.
White's Cavalry Brigade, with Sir J. Thackwell, was on the
left flank, supported by 2 troops of Horse Artillery. The
Bombay column was supported by Blood's Bombay Horse
Artillery ; Campbell by the 2 light field batteries of Ludlow
and Robertson. A reserve, consisting of the 5th and 6th Light
Cavalry, the 45th and 6gth Native Infantry, and the Bombay
field battery, was in charge of the rear.
By half-past 7 the troops had started. The Sikhs
opened fire, which showed the position and range of their
guns. Our line halted, and the whole force of artillery was
moved to the front covered by infantry skirmishers. By
9 o'clock the long line of guns was in position, about 800 yards
from the Sikhs, and then the battle opened in earnest. For
two and a half hours the artillery duel was continued. Both
sides suffered considerably, but the enemy had by far the worst
of it. Then at half-past 1 1 a general advance was ordered,
the artillery still leading. Now followed some very stubborn
fighting, when Penny's Brigade, chiefly the 2nd European Light
Infantry under their Brigadier and Major Steele, stormed the
village of Kalra. Chota Kalra, too, offered a desperate
resistance to the loth Foot in Hervey's Brigade under Colonel
Franks. Markham's and Hervey's Brigades on our right had
very hard fighting, but the fire of the Horse Artillery guns
overwhelmed the enemy in that direction. The artillery on
our left was most effective, and dominated the nullah, so that
236 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
Campbell's infantry had little opposition. On our extreme
left the Afghan horsemen tried to turn our flank, but Thack-
well brought his Horse Artillery to bear on them, and to cover
a brilliant charge executed by the Scinde Horse, supported by
the 9th Lancers, who drove back the enemy's squadrons in
precipitate flight, and Thackwell was enabled to turn their
flank. The ground prevented further action on the part of
the cavalry on that flank, but the guns were brought forward
and aided the rout of the enemy which was now beginning.
On our right, the Afghan horsemen kept us constantly on
the alert, but the ground there was very unfit for cavalry
action owing to the wet nullah and the villages lying to our
front. By half-past 12 the whole Sikh army was in full
flight, and by i o'clock Goojerat itself, the Sikh camp, their
baggage, and most of their guns were in possession of the
British. On the left of the town, Dundas and Thackwell
followed in pursuit, and on the right the cavalry under
Lockwood and Hearsey, aided by infantry. The cavalry
pursued for upwards of 12 miles, till it was dark, and the
flying Sikhs had to drop most of the few guns they had
carried off the field in their hurried flight. It was a thorough
rout, and every branch of the army, horse, foot, and artillery,
did its work thoroughly and with complete success.
The Fourteenth took a glorious part in the pursuit following
upon this crowning victory of the campaign, and their steady
conduct during the battle had the desired effect of holding
in check and driving off those goles of Afghan horsemen
which seriously threatened the right flank of our army.
The Fourteenth were in the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, with
the ist Light Cavalry and the nth Irregular Cavalry, com-
manded by Brigadier-General G. H. Lockwood, C.B., supported
by Warner's troop of Horse Artillery, and the duty of this
brigade was to defend the right flank. The Sikhs and Afghan
horsemen were perpetually menacing this flank during the
battle, and did their best to surround us by endeavouring
to get to our rear. One troop of these audacious warriors
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 237
did actually get round our rear, and threatened the Commander-
in-Chief and his staff, but they were driven off most gallantly
and cut to pieces by Lord Cough's escort, a troop of the
5th Light Cavalry, ably led by Lieutenant Stannus,1 who was
severely wounded on the occasion.
The successful manner in which these various -attacks were Extracts from
met by our cavalry on the right is best described in the following espat
extracts from despatches relating thereto. Brigadier- General Brigadier-
^ TJ T i j r* TD • General
(jr. H. Lockwood, C.B., writes: — Lockwood,
C.B.
'CAMP GOOJERAT,
February 22, 1849.
' On the morning of the 2ist I deployed my Brigade in the
following manner : — In the first line,
5 troops of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons,
2 squadrons ist Light Cavalry,
with ist troop 3rd Brigade Horse Artillery on the left, escorted
by a troop of the i4th Light Dragoons and a ressalah of the
nth Irregular Cavalry; in support, the remainder of the nth
Irregular Cavalry; and in reserve (under Lieutenant-Colonel
Doherty),
i squadron i4th Light Dragoons,
i squadron ist Light Cavalry.
The enemy's horsemen appeared in great force upon our right,
threatening to turn our flank, so I changed front to the right,
directing the reserve to retain its front and communicate with
the infantry on its left. Captain Warner's guns opened with
great effect upon the horsemen and turned them, but they only
retired a short distance, and then a regiment of their regular
cavalry moved round by a circuitous route and got completely
into our rear. I immediately detached towards them three
guns with a squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons, who, in
conjunction with Major Christie's corps of Irregular Cavalry,
drove them off. About this time a large gole of horsemen
1 Afterwards General Henry James Stannus, C.B.
238 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
came on towards me and I prepared to charge, but as they
turned at once from the fire of the guns, and as there was a
nullah in our front, I refrained from advancing after them.
The reserve also now advanced in support of Colonel Hervey's
Brigade of infantry. I then received orders to bring on the
brigade, and followed in the pursuit of the enemy. In the
pursuit the i4th Light Dragoons and ist Light Cavalry cut
down and shot a considerable number of the Sikh Infantry,
Corporal Pain and Corporal William Pain of the I4th Light Dragoons cap-
sfandard* Slkh tured a red silk standard, killing in single combat the horse-
man who bore it. I beg to state to the Major-General
(Commanding the Cavalry Division) that I had the greatest
satisfaction in witnessing the steadiness of the troops com-
posing the brigade in performing several manoeuvres under a
heavy fire of artillery. My best thanks are due to Captain
Warner, Horse Artillery ; also to Lieutenant- Colonel Bradford,
commanding ist Light Cavalry ; Lieutenant-Colonel King,
commanding i4th Light Dragoons; and Lieutenant-Colonel
Doherty, i4th Light Dragoons, who commanded the reserve.'
— London Gazette > April 19, 1849.
Brigadier- Brigadier- General Hearsey (commanding 4th Cavalry
Brigade), who was commanding in the pursuit in which
Brigadier Lockwood's (2nd) Brigade took part, says in his
despatch, dated
'CAMP, near KOREA,
2$rd February 1849.
' The distance the cavalry under my command went over in
pursuit was fifteen miles. I found Brigadier Lockwood, C.B.,
most zealous, and desirous of having an opportunity to charge
at the head of the 1 4th Light Dragoons. The conduct of that
regiment throughout the day was most exemplary and steady,
and I have not the least doubt had an opportunity occurred
it would have been most eagerly seized to the utter destruction
of any body opposed to it.'
In his despatch to the Adjutant-General, dated Head-
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 239
quarters, Camp Goojerat, 25th February 1849, Major-
General Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.B., commanding Cavalry Weii; K.C.R
Division, says : —
' I am gratified to learn that both officers and men of
Brigadier Lockwood's Brigade behaved greatly to his satis-
faction, and that the i4th Light Dragoons, under Lieutenant-
Colonel King, and the ist Light Cavalry, under Lieutenant-
Colonel Bradford, conducted themselves gallantly, and evinced
every anxiety to close with the enemy. I am happy to
observe that the Brigadier has mentioned with great approba-
tion the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonels Bradford and King in
command of their regiments, and I cannot avoid here stating
for the information of his Lordship that I observed with much
satisfaction the zeal and judgment evinced by both officers
when in command of considerable bodies of cavalry detached
from the camp at Chillian wallah on important duties.'
In his despatch, dated Headquarters, Camp Goojerat, 26th General
February 1849, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in
India (Lord Gough) says : — ' The determined front shown by
the 1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons and the other cavalry
regiments on the right, both regular and irregular, completely
overawed the enemy and contributed in a very large measure
to the success of the day : the conduct of all in following up the
fugitive enemy was beyond all praise.' This despatch was
subsequently published by the Right Honourable the Governor-
General of India in his general orders, for the information of
the army after the battle.
The following reference to the pursuits at Goojerat occurs
in Thackwell's Narrative of the Sikh Wars, p. 227: — 'The
brigades of Hearsey and Lockwood captured several guns in
their advance, and committed awful havoc amongst the flying
Sings. The i4th Light Dragoons were conspicuous in this
bloody work of retribution. Captain Scudamore of that regi-
ment was on the point of despatching a flying Sing when the
cry of " Mercy ! " arrested his arm. No sooner had the gallant
officer passed him than he turned quickly round and shot his
24o HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1849
generous preserver. The zeal and activity of Lieut-Colonel
King in this pursuit were surpassed by no one.'
Casualties at The casualties of the 1 4th Light Dragoons at Goojerat
battle of r n
Goojerat. were as follows : —
f Lieutenant Ambrose Lloyd.
Killed \ ,
(4 horses.
'Captain J. H. Goddard, severely.
Captain A. Scudamore, dangerously.
Wounded \ , , r,
4 rank and tile.
2 horses.
The pursuit In the pursuit on the day of the battle our cavalry and
' several troops of Horse Artillery tried hard to catch the Sikh
cavalry and Afghan horsemen, but although the Qth Lancers,
3rd Light Dragoons, i4th Light Dragoons, and all the light
and irregular cavalry of our army did their best, the enemy's
cavalry was too fleet for them. However, the Khalsa Infantry
were not so lucky : they were early overtaken on our right
by Hearsey's and Lockwood's Brigades, in which were the
Fourteenth, who simply drove the stubborn Sikhs from every
garden, ravine, or hedge where they attempted to make a
stand, and shot and cut them down without mercy. Shere
Singh never halted in his flight till he had passed the
Jhelum; guns, standards, the whole of his camp — left standing
with all it contained — all the baggage of his army, ammunition,
and several thousand head of cattle were the spoils of the
victors.
Losses m both The tota] losses of the British at Goojerat were 5 officers,
92 men, killed ; 24 officers, 682 men, wounded.
In killed, wounded, prisoners, and missing, the Sikhs
probably lost from 15,000 to 20,000 men, a great portion
of their army having disbanded themselves.
Goojerat saw the Khalsa army completely shattered, and
the victory was a glorious triumph for Lord Gough and the
Army of the Punjaub. After the news of Chillianwallah reached
England, popular feeling was very strong against Lord Gough
and his ' Tipperary tactics/ as they were called, and the heavy
1 849] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 241
loss of life incurred in his battles made him unpopular in the
country. The Government of the day determined to recall
him, and on the 7th March 1849, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles
Napier, K.C. B., was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India,
with the local rank of General, but long before he arrived
to assume command, the gallant old soldier he came to super-
sede had, by his brilliant victory of Goojerat, amply vindicated
his reputation, and was restored once more to the confidence of
his Queen and country.
Immediately after Goojerat, Major-General Sir Walter
Gilbert, K.C.B., a noted horseman and a very energetic
officer, was despatched with 12,000 men of all arms, amongst
whom were the Fourteenth, with orders from Lord Gough
to pursue across the Jhelum, and to seize at once Rhotas,
Attock, Peshawur, and the whole frontier up to the passes Pursuit to the
leading into Afghanistan. This force experienced very in- Khybe
clement weather, and had to make a temporary halt in con-
sequence, on the 2nd March. Sir Walter Gilbert's orders
were to grant no terms save unconditional surrender. By
the 6th March the Sikhs, so hotly pressed by our troops and
worn out with flight, without supplies of food or ammunition,
restored all their prisoners, and finally, on the i2th March, at
Rawul Pindhi, laid down their arms and surrendered at dis-
cretion to Sir Walter Gilbert. The Fourteenth were present
on this occasion, also at the capture of Attock, 1 7th March ;
whence, continuing their pursuit of the flying Afghan horsemen,
they crossed the Indus, were at Peshawur on 2ist March, and
taking part in the expulsion of the Afghans beyond the Khyber
Pass, encamped under Jumrood Fort till the 2nd April. The Annexation of
result of the victorious campaign now closed was the annexa- \sl
tion to the British Crown of the whole of the Punjaub, from the
Khyber Pass to the banks of the Sutlej, and this event took
place on the ist April 1849. The whole campaign, from the
time the Commander-in-Chief actually took the field to the
victory at Goojerat, occupied three months.
On 2nd April the Fourteenth left Jumrood on their
Q
242
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1850
Regiment
arrives at
Lahore.
DepGt at
Maidstone.
march back ; they left Peshawur 4th April, and arrived at
Lahore ist May, where, before the troops were dismissed to
their lines, the ' muster ' was held. On 7th May, Major-
General Sir Walter Gilbert, K.C. B., inspected the regiment
at Lahore, and again on the i7th October at the same station,
and expressed satisfaction with all he saw. In the month
of November, 109 men joined from England, making the
strength present at headquarters up to 700 men.
The depot at Maidstone under Colonel C. Middleton, com-
mandant of the Cavalry Depot there, consisted of 76 men on
ist December.
On 6th December the Marquis of Dalhousie, Governor-
General of India, inspected the Fourteenth at Anarkullee
(Lahore), on which occasion the new Commander-in-Chief in
India, General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., was pre-
sent, and expressed his approbation of the movements of the
Cavalry Brigade, in which the Fourteenth took part.
On 1 7th December the Commander-in-Chief inspected the
regiment again at Lahore, and was pleased to express his
satisfaction with what he saw.
1850
During the whole of this year the Fourteenth were stationed
at Anarkullee,1 Lahore. On 25th January, Lieutenant William
Featherstonehaugh became Paymaster vice Rofe, who had
served in that capacity ever since the year 1812, having then
succeeded Mr. Flanegan, the first Paymaster ever appointed
to the 1 4th Light Dragoons.
On the 2 ist February and on 5th April the regiment
was inspected by Major-General Sir. W. Gilbert, G.C.B.
On the 2nd March, Quartermaster G. Shenton died at sea.
On the 25th March, His Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief in India, General Sir Charles J. Napier, G.C.B., made
an inspection of the garrison at Lahore, seeing all the troops
there, including the i4th Light Dragoons.
1 The military cantonment is now called Mean-Meer.
1851] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 243
On the 6th July, Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. King, C.B., died Death of
at Lahore, and was succeeded in command of the regiment khig*.' °
by Lieutenant- Colonel H. E. Doherty, C.B. ; on the ;th, Lieut. -Coionei-
Major C. Steuart became 2nd Lieutenant-Colonel; and on H' El Doherty'
the 1 7th September, Captain J. H. Goddard became Major.
On the 2Qth October, Major-General Sir Walter Gilbert,
G.C.B., inspected the regiment, and expressed himself very much
pleased with the result. He saw the Fourteenth at 5.30 A.M.
in 'marching-order/ and at 5 P.M. in 'watering-order.'
1851
The Fourteenth left Lahore igih January, and marched toAtMeerut.
Meerut, arriving there 6th March.
On ist February, headquarters were at Camp Loodiana;
on ist March at Camp Mangal.
On 1 7th March the Fourteenth took part with the other
regiments stationed at Meerut in a review held by Lieutenant-
General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.B., K.H., at which His
Excellency General Sir William Gomm, K.C.B., Commander-
in-Chief in India, was present and was highly pleased; and on
the same day His Excellency visited the barracks, stables,
regimental hospital, and the men's dinners, and expressed
to Lieutenant-Colonel Doherty, C.B., how satisfied he was
with everything he had seen.
On 22nd March, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Thackwell
inspected the Fourteenth very minutely, and he inspected a
second time on i7th November, and on both occasions ex-
pressed satisfaction with all he saw.
Lieutenant H. C. Reader was appointed Adjutant vice
Lieutenant R. P. Apthorp invalided home. Lieutenant
M. C. Smith died at Meerut £4th March ; and Cornet G. A.
Francklyn died at the same place on i8th December of pleurisy
and lung disease. There is a very handsome silver claret-jug
of a most uncommon pattern in the officers' mess which was
presented by the family of this young officer in his mempry.
244 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1852-
1852
The Fourteenth remained all this year at Meerut. On the
2yth March and 29th October, Lieutenant-General Sir J.
Thackwell made his inspections of the regiment, and on both
occasions expressed himself satisfied with the appearance
of the men, the condition of the horses, and the interior
economy of the corps.
On the 23rd July, Veterinary Surgeon A. W. Caldwell died.
Authority to On 1 4th December authority was granted for the regiment
•"Sinjmv to bear on its appointments the words ' Punjaub,' ' Chillian-
'Chaiian- J wallah,' and 'Goojerat,' in consideration of its services in the
wallah, and J . ,
•Goojerat 'on second Sikh campaign in the Punjaub, 1848-49.
appointments
granted, 1852.
1853
The Fourteenth remained at Meerut all this year. The
strength of the service troops under Lieutenant- Colonel
Doherty, C.B., at Meerut was 770 men ; the depot troop at
Maidstone, under the Commandant, Colonel F. Griffiths, con-
sisted of 43 men.
Colonel— Lieutenant-General the Honourable Henry Murray, C.B.,
Murray was appointed Colonel of the regiment on i8th March, in
succession to General Sir E. Kerrison, Bart., G.C.H., K.C.B.,
deceased.
On 2oth July, Lieutenant and Riding-master John
Holliday died at Meerut.
On 5th August, Cornet Charles Wemys Thesiger1 joined the
Fourteenth on transfer from the 5th Madras Light Cavalry.
On 3Oth December, Captain W. Wilmer became Major
vice Clarke.
The Fourteenth were inspected at Meerut by Lieutenant-
General Sir Joseph Thackwell on 3Oth March, and by Briga-
dier-General J. Scott, C.B., on 5th November. Both officers
expressed their satisfaction at the efficient state in which they
found the regiment.
1 Now Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. W. Thesiger, Colonel of the I4th (King's)
Hussars.
. f/k.. Jo
'
1854] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 245
1854
During the whole of this year the Fourteenth remained at Regiment at
Meerut. On i;th March, Brigadier-General Scott, C.B., w
inspected, and on 7th November, Brigadier-General George
Brooke, C.B., and both officers seemed very pleased with
what they saw.
Three officers died this year, viz. Lieutenant W. D. Boyd,
at Bromley, Kent, on i4th January; Major J. H. Goddard,
who had been wounded at the battle of Goojerat,1 at Simla, on
3ist May; and Assistant Surgeon R. Wigstrom at Mazagon,
Bombay, on 8th September.
On ist June, Captain A. Scudamore became Major vice
Goddard. The establishment was now — Establishment.
9 Troops. 10 Farriers. 626 Privates.
57 Sergeants. 40 Corporals. 703 Troop-horses.
14 Trumpeters.
A Saddler-Sergeant was included in the establishment
this year for the first time.
His Excellency General Sir William Gomm, K.C.B., Com-
mander-in-Chief in India, expressed his great satisfaction at
receiving so good a report of the regiment from Brigadier-
General G. Brooke, C. B., after his inspection held on 7th
November at Meerut, as stated in a letter from Colonel
Frederick Markham, Adjutant-General of Her Majesty's army
in India, addressed to Brigadier-General Brooke, C.B., com-
manding at Meerut, which was notified to the officer com-
manding the regiment by His Excellency's desire. In an
extract from General Orders, dated Headquarters, Shunish-
abad, 3oth December 1854 (No. 91), His Excellency remarks Regiment
with reference to the i4th Light Dragoons having been placed o!derefbrde'
under orders to proceed to Bombay with all despatch, preparatory £"rskeeayt *J^ar
to embarkation for the seat of war in Turkey, as follows : —
'The Commander-in-Chief heartily congratulates the corps Sir wniiam
on its brilliant destination, and on the prospect this opens to
it of early opportunity occurring for further ennobling i
1 Major Goddard was shot in the ankle at Goojerat.
246
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Orders for
the Crimea
counter-
manded.
Ordered to
Kirkee.
Regiment
arrives at
Kirkee,
2 1st April
1855.
standards, rich already in the records of Peninsular and Indian
victory. Her Majesty's Fourteenth will bring an accession,
as we confidently trust, nothing short of 667 British sabres,
with which it will quit Meerut, to the ranks of the heroic army,
which in brief space of time has achieved exploits unsurpassed
in the annals of British intrepidity and constancy. Sir
William Gomm has pleasure in publicly recording the tenor
of the half-yearly report made to him of the state of the
regiment on 7th November last by an Inspecting Officer so
competent in every respect to the duty as that by whom it was
then visited. Brigadier Brooke reports in his " Summary of
Remarks " as to the I4th Light Dragoons — " The regiment
appears to be in a state of complete efficiency. The horses
are in good working condition, and the appointments of both
men and horses in excellent order."
(Signed) 'WILLIAM GOMM, General,
' Commander-in-Chief, East Indies'
1855
On 8th January, at Meerut, the Fourteenth received orders
for the Crimea, where the war between the Russians and the
allies was now in progress. On the 1 6th the march commenced
from Meerut, but on i7th an order came countermanding the
embarkation for the Crimea, and the regiment marched back
to Meerut, and re-entered the station on the iQth January.
On the same day orders were received from the Governor-
General direct by electric telegraph for the Fourteenth to march
to Kirkee, and on 24th January the march to Kirkee, 75 marches
and 884 miles distant, was commenced. The strength on
leaving Meerut was 20 officers, 705 men, and 701 horses.
The Fourteenth entered Kirkee on 2ist April, losing 2 men
by death on the march. On the 28th April, Brigadier-General
Trydell, commanding the Poona Brigade, made his inspection.
He was much pleased, and said he could scarcely have ex-
pected to find the regiment in such an efficient state after
their long march, as he did.
Lieutenant - General the Honourable H. Murray, C.B.,
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 247
became General on the i6th February. On 28th June, His
Excellency General Sir H. Somerset, Commander-in- Chief of
the Bombay army, reviewed the Fourteenth, and was very
pleased with the manner in which the field movements were
executed. The Right Honourable the Governor of Bombay,
Lord Elphinstone, was present, and told Colonel Doherty that,
as an old cavalry officer, he never saw a regiment ' trot past '
better than the Fourteenth had done that day.
On 2nd November, Major-General F. Schuler, commanding
the Poona Division of the army, made an inspection of the
regiment, and was highly pleased.
1856
The Fourteenth remained at Kirkee this year.
Colonel Doherty, C.B., left India for England on leave of
absence on 3oth August, after commanding the regiment for
six years, and he never rejoined it, as he retired on half-pay
the following year.
On 7th November, Riding-master Joseph Raiker was
appointed to the regiment.
His Excellency General Sir Henry Somerset, K.C.B.,
inspected on 2Oth March, and again on 1 7th December ; Major-
General Schuler inspected on the 28th October, and both
expressed themselves perfectly satisfied.
On 3ist October, Colonel Charles Steuart arrived from
England and assumed command of the regiment during the
absence of Colonel Doherty.
1857
On 2oth February the regiment, under Colonel Steuart, Regiment
left Kirkee for Persia on field-service with the expeditionary
force commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, s
K.C.B., and reached Bushire in March, where it disembarked
and was encamped. The Fourteenth had moved by squadrons
from Kirkee to Bombay, the last squadron marching on
24th February. The strength of the service troops pro-
ceeding to Persia was 25 officers, 614 men, and 649 horses.
The headquarters embarked at Bombay 8th March, and
248 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
landed at Bushire 3ist March, and they left Bushire 3Oth
April, landing at Bombay i5th May. Captain Need's troop
had embarked at Bombay in the ship Raby Castle with a
strength of 76 horses on the ist March, and landed on the
2ist March at Bushire, where was an open roadstead with
a very rough sea, in consequence of which many of the small
boats used for landing were capsized and several horses
drowned. Another troop sailed in the Golden Era, but was
much delayed through grounding on a sandbank. Assistant-
Surgeon J. H. Sylvester of the Indian Medical Service and
Veterinary-Surgeon H. Dawson were attached to the regiment,
and served with it in the Persian expedition.
The Persian expeditionary force proceeded by sea from
Bombay in the months of February and March to the Persian
Gulf, and landed at Bushire : it consisted of 2 divisions of
infantry with artillery, sappers, and a cavalry division.
General Stalker commanded the ist Division; Brigadier-
General Henry Havelock, C.B., the 2nd Division; and Brigadier-
General Jacob, C.B., the Cavalry Division; the two brigades
of cavalry being commanded by Colonel Tapp, and Colonel
Steuart of the i4th Light Dragoons.
One troop of the Fourteenth underCaptain Prettejohn formed
part of the force which started from Bushire towards the end of
March and proceeded up the gulf with Lieut. -General Sir James
Outram towards Shatta-el-Arab. Several of the vessels contain-
ing troops grounded on the bar at Shatta-el-Arab, the name given
to the place at the mouths of the Tigris, Euphrates, and minor
tributaries in the Persian Gulf, and thus considerable delay and
inconvenience was caused, and most of the cavalry was late to
be of efficient service partly in consequence of this, and partly
owing to the small supply of boats for landing the troops. The
forts of Mohamra were situated along the banks of the river, but
the town of the same name lay 40 miles higher up, on the north
side of the river Karoon, which at this point, near its junction
with the Shatta-el-Arab, is from 600 to 800 yards wide. Four
armed steamers and two sloops of war, under Captain Young
of the Indian navy (acting commodore), had preceded the
PERSIA
1857
Scale of English Miles.
so . . 9 so 100
StanfyrtVs GtogMstate
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flotilla of vessels carrying the troops, and these successfully
bombarded the forts and entrenched positions of the Persian
army within gun-fire, which had the effect of completely de-
moralising the enemy, as the fire was well directed ; and sub-
sequently, when the force landed under Sir James Outram,
who was himself in the leading vessel, the Feroze, the whole
Persian army evacuated their camp, leaving tents standing,
and all their property, together with ammunition and 1 7 guns,
which fell into our hands. The expeditionary force had to
land in small boats, running the gauntlet of both gun and
musket fire from some of the Persian batteries on the river
bank, but so soon as ever the landing was effected and the
advance on the enemy's camp 2 miles off actually made, the
Persians fled, having first exploded their principal magazine. Flight of the
Owing to the want of cavalry just when it was needed, no
effective pursuit took place, although a detachment of the
Sinde Horse under Captain M. Green did attempt it, but
without much result, and the fugitives made good their escape,
losing 200 killed. The only portion of the military forces
engaged was the mortar battery under Captain Wogan, and
a few European riflemen who were employed on board the
war vessels when they bombarded the Persian earthworks and
batteries lining the banks. There were 23 men killed and
wounded altogether in the squadron during the bombardment,
and the victory was really a naval one.
The strength of the Persian army was 13,000 men, whilst
the British and Indian troops numbered under 5000 men, as
follows : — Men.
1 4th Light Dragoons, ... 89
Sinde Horse, .... 303
64th and y8th Regiments, . . . 1534
2 Native Regiments, . . . 1465
The Light Battalion, . . . 920
Sappers and miners, . . . 233
12 guns Horse Artillery and )
No. 2 Light Field Battery, ]
Total, 4886
250 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
The capture of Mohamra took place on 26th March. Sir
James Outram had himself left Bushire on i8th March, reach-
ing Shatta-el-Arab, 174 miles, on 2ist March. He left a large
portion of the expeditionary force, to the number of 3000 men,
under the command of Brigadier -General Jacob, C.B., at
Bushire, where General Stalker had unfortunately just died,
and Commodore Ethersey of the Indian navy, commanding
the squadron, died in the Persian Gulf about the same time.
The climate is a very pestilential one, and dysentery and
fever are prevalent and very fatal to Europeans.
It was only Captain Prettejohn's, the ' H ' troop of the
Fourteenth, which was present at the taking of the town and
fortress of Mohamra, as this troop happened to arrive first at
Bushire and so was taken on first, as Jacob's Horse had not
arrived, being delayed by the gales. The officers with
Captain Prettejohn were Lieutenant Mackenzie, Cornet Ridley,
and Assistant-Surgeon Fox.
The other troops of the Fourteenth and headquarters re-
mained some time at Bushire, and some who left Bombay
in sailing-vessels were sent back without even landing or doing
any service in the expedition, much to their disappointment.
The only losses suffered by the Fourteenth in Persia were 22
troop-horses by death, the result of accident or disease. After
the affair of Mohamra some infantry with an armed flotilla
were despatched up the river Karoon as far as Ahwaz,
under command of Captain Rennie, Indian navy, the detach-
ment of the 78th Highlanders being commanded by Captain
Hunt ; but though the Persians numbered 7000 they retreated
in hot haste before a body of 300 British infantry, 3 small
steamers, and 3 gunboats.
Thus ended the war. The 64th Regiment and the troop of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons were shortly afterwards sent back
to Bushire, whilst the remainder of the force was kept some
time longer in the unhealthy vicinity of Mohamra and Shatta-
el-Arab, exposed alike to Persian sun and gulf fever. Sir
James Outram himself did not finally quit Persia till i7th
June, by which time the mutiny in India had broken out.
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The Lieutenant-General says in his despatch, referring to
the services of the military portion of his forces employed in
this expedition : — ' Although not actively engaged with the
enemy, I am not the less indebted to all ranks for their
exertions and zeal, and especially for the great order and
despatch with which the landing of the troops was effected
under Brigadier-General Havelock, C.B. The highest spirit
prevailed, and had the large Persian army only waited our
approach out of the range of the ships' guns, I feel confident
it would have received a lasting lesson.' l
The Fourteenth reached Kirkee in May and had scarcely Regiment
settled down in their former quarters on return from the sue- KiS, May
cessful expedition to Persia, when they had to respond once l857'
more to the old familiar trumpet-call of ' Boot and Saddle.'
The 8th of June found the left wing of the regiment, Left wing
' B," C,' ' D,' and ' E ' troops, en route to Ahmednuggur and gT
Nusseerabad ; another troop, probably the 'A' troop, followed for the Deccan-
on the nth, making the strength of those on field-service
up to 10 officers, 300 men, and 305 troop-horses.
Major-General Schuler inspected the headquarters at
Kirkee on i5th and i6th July, after the remainder of
the regiment had left for service. ' G ' and ' H ' troops had
been moved from Kirkee into Poona to be quartered there
when the service troops left; but on i6th June, 'H' troop
proceeded temporarily to Sattara in the southern part of the
Bombay Presidency, followed by some more detachments of
the regiment to the same town, their presence being urgently
required there in consequence of an outbreak at Kolapore,2
situated further south.
On loth July the right wing began to take the field, and Right wing
on that date 1 20 sabres (probably ' H ' and ' K ' troops) 3 marched fhr° o^n,
to join the other portions of the regiment already on service i6th July 1857.
in the Deccan, followed on i6th July by some more men of
the right wing, so that by this time it may be said the whole
1 The above is quoted from the Biography of Sir James Outram, by Sir F. Goldsmid.
2 Kolapore, or Kolhapur, is in the Mahratta country.
3 Prettejohn's and Need's.
252 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
regiment was fairly launched upon the campaign against the
mutineers in the great Sepoy revolt, which lasted till May 1859.
Since their arrival in India the Fourteenth had always
worn the puggrie round their forage-caps, excepting when in
full dress, and then the shako was worn ; but now the latter
was given up altogether, and the authorities gave permission
for the men to wear turbans instead, which was a far more
sensible head-dress for an Indian sun. Before the mutiny
broke out the men of the Fourteenth were always called
• Puggrie( ' Puggrie Wallahs ' by the natives, having, it is believed,
initiated the wearing of forage-caps with puggries round them.1
Gloves and stocks were also discarded by the men at this
time when going on field-service, as being useless encumbrances
for actual fighting and hard work.
Major-Generai It was owing to the disturbed state of affairs throughout
column!1™ India generally just at this time, May 1857, that Lord Elphin-
stone, the Governor of Bombay, designed to form a column
to secure and hold the great line of road between Bombay
and Agra. This column was only a small one. It was placed
under the command of Major-General Woodburn, C.B., and
was intended by Lord Elphinstone to be used to open out
communications with Central India and the North- West Pro-
vinces. It consisted of the following troops : —
5 troops of the i4th (King's) Light Dragoons,
The 25th Bombay Native Infantry,
Captain Woolcombe's battery of Horse Artillery,
A pontoon train.
The column started from Kirkee and Poona on 8th June,
with orders to march at once to Mhow, in order to save that
place and prevent the spread of the insurrection which had
already taken place in the Malwa district and along the northern
portion of the Bombay Presidency. The state of affairs at
Mhow and Indore was very serious. Malleson2 says: — 'It
was just possible that, making forced marches, General Wood-
1 See Scraps from my Sabretache, by Stent, 1882, p. 144, from which several
quotations have been made in this Record. * Vol. v. p. 7.
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 253
burn might approach so near to Indore1 as to baffle the plans
of the discontented. Circumstances, however, occurred which
baffled the hopes expressed by Lord Elphinstone, when, acting
on his own unaided judgment, he pressed upon the military
authorities the necessity for General Woodburn to advance.'
The circumstances alluded to by Malleson were the revolts
in Malwa and the Deccan, especially in Aurungabad, which Aurungabad.
latter city was once the capital of the kingdom of Ahmed-
nuggur, and later the favourite residence of the Emperor
Aurungzeeb. It is situated in the north-western corner of the
Nizam's dominions in Hyderabad, Deccan. On the second
day's march of the column from Poona, it was joined by the
25th Bombay Native Infantry, under the command of Major
Follett. The 25th Bombay Native Infantry was destined
afterwards, in company with the i4th Light Dragoons, to
perform the most brilliant services in Central India under
Major- General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., but just at the present
crisis doubts were actually entertained of its loyalty. Subse-
quent events proved how utterly unfounded these were. The
whole of this column, which has been called first the Deccan
Field Force, secondly the Malwa Field Force, and thirdly the
Nerbudda Field Force,2 entered the city of Ahmednuggur at
the same time, Captain Woolcombe's battery of Horse Artillery
(native drivers and European gunners) having joined it simul-
taneously with the 25th Bombay Native Infantry.
The Nizam's army was now in a very doubtful state of
loyalty, and it was on the third day's march of Major-General
Woodburn's column that intelligence came of the disaffection
of the ist Hyderabad Cavalry at Aurungabad, a day's march
from the halting-place at Seeroor,3 as well as of the alarming
danger which threatened Mhow.
1 Malleson's Hunterian nomenclature is not adhered to in this Record, but the
older spelling is generally preferred.
2 The designation of the column was altered as it advanced and grew by re-
inforcements. When in the Deccan it was so called ; leaving and entering Malwa it
became ' The Malwa ' ; after quitting that territory and entering the valley of the
Nerbudda it changed its name again. 3 Or Sirur.
254 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
The monsoon had just burst, and naturally caused much
inconvenience to the marching of the troops.
As the reports from Mhow were so serious, the order of
march was altered to Malligaum, leaving Aurungabad to the
right ; but almost directly after the route was again changed,
and the column recalled to proceed to Aurungabad to help
the Europeans who were in such dire straits there, as the
troops had mutinied. On the igth June, Captain H. O.
Mayne arrived in camp from Aurungabad with the ladies and
children of that station.
After a wet march the column reached Aurungabad at
io A.M. on 23rd June. Captain Abbott, commanding the ist
Cavalry of the Hyderabad Contingent, with the other officers
and such of the men as had remained trustworthy, were
posted in the mess-house, but the rebellious portion of the
garrison, which consisted of the ist and 3rd Hyderabad
Cavalry, 2nd Hyderabad Infantry, and a battery of the
artillery of the Hyderabad Contingent, had encamped them-
selves on high ground beyond the cantonment, on the Jaulna
road. It was the ist Cavalry who were mutinous. Malleson l
says : — ' General Woodburn's column marched at once to
the ground occupied by the mutineers, and ordered the men
to give up their arms. With the exception of one troop
of the ist Cavalry, all obeyed. The General gave the men
of that troop six minutes to consider the course they would
pursue. When the time elapsed, the men, instead of sub-
mitting, put on a bold front, and attempted to ride away.
In this attempt most of them succeeded. The next morning,
some three or four, convicted of attempts at assassination,
were hanged, and order was restored.'
The formation of the column at the rebels' camp was,
1 4th Light Dragoons on the left, guns in the centre, 25th
Native Infantry on the right. The ist Cavalry fell in on foot,
facing the column, with the native officers only mounted. The
guns were previously loaded with canister, and pointed at the
rebels ; but during the six minutes' grace allowed, the men
1 Vol. v. p. 9.
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got on their horses and made off. Now, when too late, the
guns were fired, knocking over a few horses left behind, and
one native syce. Then the i4th Light Dragoons, with tired
horses after a long forced march, were sent after the runaways,
but they for the most part, as was to be expected under the
circumstances, made good their escape. Captain Gall of the Mutineers
1 4th Light Dragoons led his troop after those who were S
escaping by the Jaulna road. Captain Barrett pursued across and Abbott-
the open country, and some of the loyal Native Cavalry under
Captain Abbott joined the Fourteenth in their almost fruitless
pursuit. One squadron of the regiment under Lieutenant
Leith,1 with 2 guns, some of the 25th Native Infantry, and
some sappers and miners, had been very judiciously posted
near the bridge over the river leading to the cavalry lines, so
as to prevent any disturbance occurring in the cantonment.
In the end some few rebels were taken and brought back
prisoners. Courts-martial were held, and several rebels were
convicted and executed, either by hanging or else shot or
blown away from the cannon's mouth ; but there is no doubt
that as a whole the mutineers on this occasion were treated too
leniently, and without the necessary decision which is of para-
mount importance on such critical occasions, especially when
dealing with the natives in India.
The next day a squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons, Captain Gail's
accompanied by 2 guns of Woolcombe's battery and some "arches to
Native troops, were placed under command of Captain Gall,
1 4th Light Dragoons, and marched off at dusk for Boldana, mutineers.
in Berar, as there was a large sum of money in the treasury
there under the guard of a troop belonging to the mutinous
cavalry of the Nizam. This column reached Boldana, 100 miles
off, in three days, whence, after taking over from Mr. Bullock,
the acting resident, the whole of the mutinous troop, previously
disarmed, marched back under Captain Gall to Aurungabad,
bringing the prisoners with them. They passed en route
through Jaffarabad and Jaulna, and arrived on 6th July at
Aurungabad. On pth July news came to Aurungabad con-
1 Afterwards Major Leith, V.C.
256 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
Left wing ceming the Mhow and Indore mutinies, and on the i2th the
Cmtr^india, left wing of the Fourteenth and the rest of the column
1857 ^ marched for Central India, Major Follett having assumed the
command in consequence of Major-General Woodburn being
incapacitated by illness. A detachment of 50 sabres of the
Fourteenth was left behind in Aurungabad for the protection
of the place, as well as 2 guns. This troop of the regiment
appears to have gone back to Kirkee in October when no
longer required in the Deccan, and it remained there for a
time with other details, forming a sort of depot under com-
mand of Brevet-Colonel C. P. Ainslie,1 who had been reap-
pointed on 26th August from half-pay to serve once more
in the Fourteenth as second Lieutenant-Colonel. On i7th
June, Lieutenant C. W. Thesiger2 exchanged into the 6th
(Inniskilling) Dragoons, which regiment he afterwards com-
manded. On 2Oth June, Captain Gaussen died in England,
and on 26th August, Colonel H. E. Doherty, C.B. (in
England), retired on half-pay, being succeeded in command
Lieut. -Colonel of the Fourteenth by Colonel Charles Steuart.3 On i8th
September, Captain R. H. Gall became Major vice Wilmer.
The march of the column which started from Aurungabad
for the relief of Mhow on i2th July, under the temporary com-
mand of Major Follett, 25th Bombay Infantry, and with which
was the left wing of the Fourteenth under Captain Gall's com-
mand, lay through the Asseerghur jungles, which from June
to November are very unhealthy and often prove fatal to Euro-
peans, as there is much danger of malaria in that season.
At Edulabad, Major Follett fell a victim to cholera, and
was buried at Burhampur.4 When Major-General Woodburn
fell ill at Aurungabad, Colonel C. S. Stuart,5 of the Bombay
Infantry, had been appointed as Brigadier to command the
force, and he assumed command at Asseerghur, which was
1 Colonel Ainslie commanded the station at Kirkee.
* Now Lieut-General the Hon. C. W. Thesiger, Colonel of I4th (King's) Hussars.
3 Afterwards Lieut-General Charles Steuart, C.B.
* See Sylvester's Campaign in Central India, p. 15.
5 Afterwards General Sir Charles Shepherd Stuart, G.C.B.
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reached on 22nd July. Here also Lieutenant-Colonel Durand,
R.E.,1 Officiating Agent to the Governor-General for Central
India (in the absence of Sir Robert Hamilton), Mrs. Durand,
Dr. Henry Wilson, as well as several fugitive officers and
ladies who had escaped from the mutiny at Indore, joined the
column on the march.
On 27th July the troops crossed the Nerbudda in the
vicinity of Hoosingabad, the i4th Light Dragoons swimming
the river,2 the infantry, guns, and baggage passing by the ford
of Mokka-ka-Turr, near Burwai. As the force ascended the
Vindhya range at a height of 1650 feet, all traces of cholera
and malaria quickly disappeared, but the heavy rains continued
almost incessantly during the greater part of the march.
On the 28th July the column was joined by the 3rd
Regiment of Cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent, commanded by
Major S. Orr; on the 3ist it ascended the Simrol pass, and
the following morning entered Mhow. That night the mon-
soon came on with great violence, and very heavy rains set
in and continued for the next two months. It was a most
critical time: Holkar's troops at Indore, only 13 miles off,
were in open mutiny ; and there was no European infantry
at Mhow, where the force, under Brigadier Stuart, consisted
of 5 troops 1 4th Light Dragoons, 3rd Cavalry, Hyderabad
Contingent, i horse battery of European Artillery, the 25th
Bombay Native Infantry, and a pontoon train. A few days
later, as related in Kaye and Malleson's History of the Indian
Mutiny? 4 companies of the 86th Regiment4 arrived to re-
inforce the column at Mhow ; but no operations could be
satisfactorily carried on during the heavy rains, so it was not
till October that anything further was undertaken. On the Advance of
the Malwa
2Oth of that month Brigadier Stuart led forth his column, Field Force
now the Malwa5 Field Force, with a view to clear the rebels £SrMhow
Brigadier
1 Afterwards Sir Henry Marion Durand, K.C.B. 0'ct 'jg,.-
2 Sylvester's Campaign in Central India, p. 16. 3 Vol. v. p. 42.
4 Now 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
5 Malwa, in Central India, comprises the states of Gwalior, Indore, and Dhar.
R
258 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
out of the surrounding districts where they had occupied some
of the most important forts and towns of Malwa.
Mundesor. The first point of intended attack was Mundesor. This
town is situated on a tributary of the river Chambal, about
1 20 miles from Indore. Malleson l says : — 'In the month of
July this place had been occupied by some of Sindhia's
revolted troops, and these had been joined, and were being
constantly further strengthened, by Afghan, Mekrani, and
Mewati levies. In August the insurrection at Mundesor
threatened not only to embrace all Western Malwa, but
Neemuch as well. The leader of the Mundesor insurgents
was Ferozshah, a shahzada or prince connected with the im-
perial family at Delhi. It was estimated in September that
some 15,000 men, with 16 or 18 guns, had rallied round his
standard, and this estimate was subsequently found to have
been below the actual number.' The force under Brigadier
Stuart at the time only consisted of about
200 of 1 4th Light Dragoons.
170 Artillery.
230 of 86th Regiment.
350 of 25th Bombay Native Infantry.
350 of 3rd Nizam's Cavalry.
Madras Sappers and Miners.
Lieutenant-Colonel Durand, the political officer, saw the
importance of striking a blow as quickly as could be ; and
accordingly, as Mundesor was too strongly held to be attacked
immediately, it was determined first to march on the fort of
Dhar. On the I4th of October an advanced party under
Major Robertson, 25th Bombay Native Infantry, consisting
of a troop of the i4th Light Dragoons, 3 companies Native
Infantry, 2 guns, and some Hyderabad Cavalry, had been
sent on from Mhow in the direction of Dhar to form a kind
of advance-guard to the column, with orders to proceed via
Gujri. The main body, which left Mhow on 2oth October,
was divided into 2 columns, one under Major Keane, 86th
1 Vol. v. pp. 44, 45-
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Regiment, and the other under the Brigadier. Each of these Action at
took a somewhat different direction, in order to try and clear October 1857.
the whole of Malwa of its rebels, and on the 22nd the entire
force arrived in the vicinity of Dhar. Captain Mayne, 3rd
Irregular Cavalry, who was attached to the force, had ridden
forward with some sowars, and reported he had been fired on at
a village about 4 miles from Dhar. On coming in view of the
fort and town the 86th Regiment advanced in skirmishing order,
and it was ascertained that a large body of the garrison had
sallied out from the fort to attack our force. Malleson says they
had planted 3 guns on a hill south of the fort, from which point
they were extended along its eastern face in skirmishing order,
and advanced boldly against the British.1 The guns were
charged and captured by some of the Fourteenth, acting with
the 25th Native Infantry, led by Major Robertson, whose men
promptly turned them on the rebels. ' Almost simultaneously the
four companies of the 86th Regiment and the sappers, flanked
by Woolcombe's (Bombay) and Hungerford's (Bengal) batteries,
advanced against the enemy's centre, whilst the cavalry threat-
ened both flanks — the dragoons under Captain Gall, the left,
the Nizam's cavalry under Major Orr, the right. Baffled in their
advance by the action of the 25th Bombay Native Infantry and
the play of the British guns on their centre, the enemy made
a rapid movement to their left, and attempted to turn the
British right. But the dragoons, led by Gall, and the Nizam's
cavalry led by Orr and Macdonald, Deputy Quartermaster-
General of the force, charged them so vigorously that they
retired into the fort, leaving 40 dead bodies of their companions
on the field. On the British side 3 dragoons and i native
trooper were wounded, a jamadar and a native trooper were
killed. The fort was now invested, but the British force had
to wait for their siege-guns, expected on the 24th. They arrived
on the evening of that day ; the next morning they were placed
in position.' z
During this action, as above related, the rebels' battery had
1 Kaye and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny ', vol. v. pp. 47-48. 2 Ibid.
260
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[i857
Three guns
captured by
Captain Gall
at Dhar.
Sergeant
Gardiner
behaves
gallantly.
Troop
Sergeant-
Major
Grainger
distinguishes
himself in
action.
Fort of Dhar
captured,
3 ist October
1857.
been gallantly charged by a small body of the I4th Light
Dragoons, led by Captain Gall and Cornet Giles, as well as
by the 25th Bombay Native Infantry under Major Robertson.
The 3 guns (brass 9-pounders of English manufacture) were
captured and then turned on the enemy by the Native Infantry,
who worked them, whilst our line advanced and the cavalry made
their final charge. The enemy were thus driven from the out-
works on all sides, pursued by the cavalry. Three standards
were captured with the guns, and several acts of bravery were
performed by the men of the Fourteenth, who behaved with
great gallantry on this occasion. Sergeant G. Gardiner attacked,
with only a few light dragoons, a party of the enemy who had
fired at him from an ambush, killing several of them. A division
of ' D' troop charged a body of the rebels who threatened an
attack on the baggage, when Troop Sergeant-Major Grainger
displayed great resolution and courage, cutting down two of
the rebel horsemen, one of whom was pressing a light dragoon
very hard. In this melde. Troop Sergeant-Major Grainger
received a spear-wound in the wrist, and his horse was wounded
by two sabre-cuts. Most of the rebels took refuge inside the
fort and town, and it was not till the 3ist, at night, that the
fort of Dhar was actually captured. The garrison for the
most part had cleverly eluded us and made good their escape
that night, quitting the fort between 9 and 10 P.M., and going
to the north-west, in the direction of Mundesor. This oc-
curred at the time the breach was entered by our men, the
rebels escaping by the main gate. The outlying picquet
of the 3rd Hyderabad Cavalry had a skirmish with the rear-
guard of the retreating enemy, but the main body had passed
it and the dragoons unobserved ; and although the cavalry
pursued when the alarm was given, the rebels had got too
far away, and only a few stragglers were captured. It had
unfortunately happened that the European picquet, which had
been stationed near the spot where the garrison escaped for
some days, and which knew the ground well, had been changed
that morning, and when the men of the Fourteenth belonging
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 261
to Captain Barrett's troop galloped up to where they heard
firing going on, not knowing the ground well, several of them
got hopelessly bogged in marshy ground. Moreover, the
sowar sent by the jamadar1 of the native picquet to give the
alarm fell with his horse on the way, and was disabled.2 A
quantity of treasure and handsome elephant gear was found
in the fort, and it was forwarded to Mhow under escort, the
troops subsequently sharing in prize-money.
A large accession of troops came up for the British at The Field
this juncture in the shape of what was designated the Field
Force, Hyderabad Contingent, consisting of troops of all arms
sent by the Nizam. These were placed under the command £orce at
'. October 1857
of Major Orr, and did good service now with the Malwa
Field Force and subsequently with the Central India Field
Force under Sir Hugh Rose's command.
These combined forces continued the march through
Western Malwa in the direction of Mundesor and Neemuch,
on the track of the rebels. There was nothing heard now
but incessant reports of mutinies everywhere, and repeated
massacres of Europeans took place. The rebels from Dhar
had attacked Mehidpoor cantonment on the 8th November, and
Captain Mills of the Native Cavalry fell in a charge against
the mutineers made by half a troop of loyal sowars. The com-
mandant, Major Timmins, with the adjutant, Lieutenant Dysart,
escaped and reached the camp of the Malwa Field Force on Qth
November, escorted by the loyal half-troop of Native Cavalry.
On the iQth November the force crossed the Chambal river
and reached Hernia.3
Whilst encamped on the banks of the Chambal, a parade Execution of
was ordered to witness the execution of about 70 of the Mehid- rebels.150
poor rebels who had been taken, after a severe fight with a
large body of mutineers, by Major Orr and his Hyderabad
1 Jamadar or jemadar.
2 Lowe's Central India. Malleson, vol. v. p. 49 ; and Sylvester's Central Indian
Campaign, p. 31.
3 Lowe's Campaign in Central India gives an animated account of the troops
crossing this river. See Malleson, vol. v. p. 52.
262 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
Cavalry, at the village of Rawal. A drumhead court-martial
was held, and the rebels were shot. Owing to reports received
of the siege of Neemuch by the rebels, the march of the
Malwa Field Force was hurried on, and by the 2ist November
it encamped within 4 miles' distance of Mundesor.
Mundesor, Whilst the men were at breakfast that day, an alarm was
November given that the enemy meant to attack. A strong force had pre-
I8s7< viously been posted by us on the heights immediately to our
front, which hid the city from our view, and Major Robertson
was in command of it. Seeing that we did not mean to attack
them that day, the enemy were emboldened to attack us, and
sallied forth in great numbers, crossing a small river in their
passage, and began by attacking Major Robertson's position.
charge of He opened his guns on them, and directed Lieutenant Dew
Dew anT of the 1 4th Light Dragoons to charge with the small body of
theqiU4th°Light cava^ry he had : this he did most gallantly, and with a most
Dragoons. successful result. Lieutenant Dew had only about 20 light
dragoons of his outlying picquet with him, but he made a
furious onslaught with these upon 300 footmen (Velaitees),1 and
the latter were so taken aback by this sudden attack that they
made a hasty retreat to the river they had previously crossed in
their advance.2 They were, however, pursued by the cavalry
to its brink, and many were shot or cut down in attempting to
cross. This success of the cavalry had an excellent effect on
the attacking force, as the rebels all retired and left us quiet
for the rest of that day. It may fairly be said that this
resolute charge of Lieutenant Dew's picquet was the main
cause of the defeat of the enemy on this occasion, and con-
tributed in no small degree to the success of Major Robertson's
force in warding off from our camp the determined attack
which would otherwise have been made upon it. Lieutenant
Dew's personal bravery was so conspicuous that he was re-
commended, though unsuccessfully, for the coveted distinction
1 Velaitees were matchlockmen.
2 Lieutenant Dew was well supported by some of the Hyderabad Cavalry on this
occasion.
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 263
of the Victoria Cross, and several men of the Fourteenth were
brought to notice for their gallant conduct on the same occa-
sion. Regimental Sergeant- Major Clark, who was severely Regimental
wounded, did excellent work on the right flank, taking with
him a party of skirmishers, following up the enemy
pursuing a considerable distance till they were finally driven M* Light
rr T • /- • i r i T- 'Dragoons,
on. Lieutenant Gowan was sent with a troop of the r our- distinguish
teenth to support the skirmishers and cut off the rebels, and l
he reported very highly as to the admirable coolness and
bravery of Private Buchanan when in presence of the enemy.
It is believed 100 of the rebels were killed in this affair, and
large numbers also were wounded.1
Next morning, 22nd November, the British force advanced,
hoping to take Mundesor. The cavalry and artillery were in
advance, and as we passed the large straggling town, sur-
rounded by trees, a few shots reached our column. The
rebel picquets fell in as we advanced, our long stream
of baggage and native followers skirting round the town so
as to reach the Neemuch road. About midday we halted in
some jowarree fields, and the natives here told us that a
large body of the rebels had left the town, but that the fort
was still held by a garrison of 2000. Shortly afterwards
reports came that a body of rebels was advancing from a
distance on Mundesor, and to meet these the wing of the
Fourteenth under Captain Gall, together with the Nizam's
cavalry, were sent off. These crossed the river and dashed
forward at a smashing pace across-country, through fields
of standing grain,2 but did not come in sight of the enemy
for several miles, when they were seen making rapidly for the
cover of the village of Peeplia. The Fourteenth and some of
the Hyderabad Cavalry managed to get amongst the rebels'
infantry, and cut up quite a hundred, pursuing them within
matchlock range of the mud walls of the village, where they
had a strong force under cover of the buildings ; accordingly,
as the cavalry had neither guns nor infantry with them, it
1 Sylvester, p. 38, etc. 2 Ibid.
264 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
was decided to rejoin the main body, especially as two officers
and some men were already wounded, and the horses much
fatigued after a long gallop. During the retirement to camp,
numbers of the enemy who had hidden themselves in trees and
standing corn were killed by the cavalry. On the 23rd the
force began to cross the Mundesor river, near which the camp
lay on the preceding day, and whilst the baggage was being
transported, an alarm was raised amongst the native followers.
It soon appeared that the garrison of the fort had sallied
forth and was advancing on our line of march. A troop of
the Fourteenth was sent back across the river to endeavour to
repulse this attack, which it apparently did most successfully,
as the column now effected the passage of the river to the
right bank, and then proceeded along the road towards
Neemuch, 22 miles distant from Mundesor, for the relief
of the Europeans there, who were in imminent danger, was
the real object the Brigadier had in view. Soon, however,
was heard a report of cannon to the right front, and an
alarm was also raised from the rear that an attack was
imminent on our rearguard and baggage, where Lieutenant
Fen wick of the 25th Bombay Native Infantry was in charge.
The guns heard to the front were from the village of Goraria,
about 4 miles distant, where the rebel force which had come
from Neemuch had taken up a strong position, 'their right
resting on the village, their centre on a long hill, and their
left well covered by fields of uncut grain, with broken ground
and nullahs in their front, full of water and mud.'1 To
meet the attack from the Mundesor garrison on our rear
a troop of the Fourteenth, with Lieutenants Leith, Red-
mayne, and another subaltern was immediately detached, and
endeavoured to keep the enemy at bay for a time, as the
Battle of rearguard had not actually been engaged, but was only
23°rdaNovember threatened. The guns of our force meanwhile opened on the
l857- enemy in front : the i4th Light Dragoons under Captain Gall
were on the right, the Hyderabad Cavalry under Major Orr
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 54.
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 265
on the left, Hungerford's and Woolcombe's batteries formed our
right centre, the Hyderabad bullock-battery the left centre, the
86th Regiment and 25th Bombay Native Infantry the centre,
with the Hyderabad Infantry and Sappers on the left of the
Nizam's battery. Our guns and the fire of the infantry —
especially that from the Enfields of the 86th Regiment — soon
weakened the fire of the enemy's field battery, which had been
carefully placed near his centre, masked by date, palm, and
other trees ; * and behind it, sheltering the mutineer Mehidpoor
Cavalry and rebel infantry, were some ruined huts on the edge
of the village, whilst on the left of the village was a gharry
road constructed in a deep cutting.
It was now that Lieutenant Martin placed himself at the
head of 19 troopers of the Fourteenth, who were escort to
Woolcombe's battery,2 and with these gallant fellows charged
across the deep cutting into the midst of the rebels' guns and
actually took them, but so hot was the musketry-fire from the
infantry posted in the huts in rear of the battery that the party
had to retire, Lieutenant Martin being himself severely wounded.
Captain Gall with a squadron of the Fourteenth, composed of captain Gail
'B' and 'D' troops, quickly came to the rescue, making a gallant ^^
and most successful charge, and captured the battery of 5 *3«* November
guns. He cut down the gunners, and then pursued and cut
up 200 of the rebel infantry. Not long after this the enemy
retired, though slowly, still clinging tenaciously to the village
of Goraria, which they continued to occupy when night fell.
Malleson states that the British loss was considerable on
this occasion, amounting to not less than 60 killed and
wounded. The enemy lost on a much larger scale, especially
in the outskirts and in the surrounding country, for our cavalry
pursued round the village in every direction and cut up
hundreds of them.
Captain Gall went to the right with the Fourteenth, Major
1 Sylvester, p. 40.
2 This battery opened fire at 900 yards' range, and then made a forward move-
ment to its right to enfilade the enemy's line. Sylvester, page 41.
266 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
Orr with the Hyderabad Cavalry went to the left. They
found a large quantity of loot and plunder on the rebels, which
the latter had brought from Neemuch, where they had raised
the siege and were hoping to rescue Ferozshah and the garrison
of Mundesor, when they were thus so opportunely caught and
defeated at the right moment by our column at Goraria.
To return now to the movements that had been going on
in rear of the column whilst this fight had been carried on in
front. A party of infantry, some Hyderabad Cavalry under
Captains Abbott and Murray, as well as 2 guns, had been
sent back to the rearguard to reinforce the troops of the
Fourteenth under Lieutenant Leith already there. The
baggage and rearguard had been attacked by a large force,
about 2000, from the Mundesor garrison. Our guns imme-
diately opened fire on the rebels, the cavalry charged — both
the Fourteenth and the Hyderabad Horse — and drove them
back, pursuing and sabring a large number. The pursuit was
continued up to a point where a small pond of water and
some shallow pits or stone quarries joined : here the enemy
drew on our cavalry into broken ground, and Lieutenant Red-
mayne, who was leading in front, followed by a few men,
wheeled round the pond, and was shot down in a tremendous
volley fired by some men hidden in the gravel quarries.1
Death of Poor Redmayne met a soldier's death. His body was merci-
Lieutenant J .
Redmayne. lessly cut up by the rebels, his charger and accoutrements
instantly carried off, and several of his men belonging to
the Fourteenth were wounded at the same time.2 Private
O'Neill behaved most gallantly in this affair, and was shot
through the chest by a jingal-ball of great size ; he lived
and recovered from his wound. At this critical juncture
Captain Abbott luckily arrived by a different route, on the
other side of the water and gravel pits, which caused the enemy
to retire within the fort.
1 Sylvester, pp. 43, 44.
1 The charger was subsequently recovered at the capture of Rathgur Fort,
28th January 1858, by Sir Hugh Rose, who bought the charger. See page 276.
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 267
During the night our cavalry surrounded Goraria, and the
remainder of the force encamped, the enemy keeping up a
continuous matchlock fire even after darkness set in.
On the morning of the 24th our heavy guns were brought Operations at
to bear on the village, and at last, about noon, some 200 tfaSbuaktyb
the rebels, the Velaitees, came out under a flag of truce and November
surrendered themselves prisoners. Those that still remained
inside Goraria were the brave Rohillas, and they stuck to the
last brick in the place.1 At about 4 P.M. the 86th Regiment and
the 25th Bombay Native Infantry stormed the village at the
point of the bayonet, when those who rushed out of the houses
were cut down by the cavalry, and several hand-to-hand fights
took place in the sugar-cane plantations outside.2 The village
was set on fire, and the Madras Sappers and Miners fought
nobly with the rebels amongst the fire and smoke.
On the morning of the 25th November not a living man
remained in Goraria. Neemuch was now successfully relieved,
and Captain Mayne was able to ride in safely, returning there
with an escort of loyal sowars.
Malleson says : — ' The stern defence of the Rohillas did
service to their cause. Whilst the British force was dealing
with them, the Shahzada and his 2000 Afghans and Mekranis,
as panic-stricken as they had been bold, evacuated Mundesor
and retreated on Nangarh, whither the cavalry, worn out by
four days of unremitting exertion, was unable to pursue them.
They [the rebels] fled through the country, endeavouring to
seek refuge in the jungles.' Some of these were afterwards
killed by loyal natives at Partabgharh, in Rajputana, and
the remnant escaped across the Chambal river towards the
east. Mundesor having thus fallen into our hands, the fort
was subsequently dismantled and the guns destroyed. Thus
our troops had been most successfully engaged in the western
district of Malwa ; Dhar, Neemuch, and Mundesor were cleared
of rebels, and the Malwa Field Force had finished its appointed
work. The column was henceforth to be designated the ist
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 55. 2 Sylvester, p. 46.
268 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1857
Brigade of the Nerbudda Field Force under the same brigadier,
Colonel C. S. Stuart, Bombay army, and still accompanied
by the Officiating Agent to the Governor-General, Lieutenant-
Colonel Durand. The march of this brigade was accordingly
continued to Indore, passing through Mehidpoor on the banks
of the Sipra in Western Malwa, and itself the scene of a recent
mutiny, where Major Timmins had been defeated by the
mutinous troops and several European officers and sergeants
murdered, the whole native garrison, with few exceptions, going
over to the rebels. After passing through Oujain,1 another
town on the Sipra, Indore, Holkar's capital, was reached about
1 4th December.
Here Holkar's disaffected regular cavalry were disarmed in
the presence of Lieutenant-Colonel Durand and the Nerbudda
Field Force, the disarmed soldiers being placed under the care
of the Sikh cavalry of the late Bhopal contingent. One
thousand six hundred men of Holkar's infantry were also dis-
armed the same evening by the Maharajah's chief minister at the
request of Lieutenant-Colonel Durand. On the following day,
1 5th December, Sir Robert Hamilton, Agent to the Governor-
General, arrived and relieved Lieutenant-Colonel Durand, and
at the same time the ist Brigade occupied the cantonments.
sir Hugh Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B.,2 having on i;th
December assumed command of the forces in Central India,
, tnev were designated the Central India Field Force and the
i;th December Hyderabad Contingent Field Force, the former consisting of
the two Brigades of the late Nerbudda Field Force, under
the same Brigadiers,3 and Major Orr being commandant of the
Nizam's Contingent. Sir Hugh, shortly after assuming com-
mand, ordered the ist Brigade from Indore to Mhow, where it
remained till 3oth December. ' Long after these events,' says
Sylvester, ' the despatches appeared in which Lieutenant
1 Or Ujjain.
2 Sir Hugh Rose marched from Poona to Mhow in company with CG' troop of the
Fourteenth under Captain W. McMahon, who brought up some horses left there
sick by other portions of the regiment when they started on service.
3 Colonel C. S. Stuart, ist Brigade, and Colonel Charles Steuart (uth Light
Dragoons), 2nd Brigade.
1857] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 269
Martin's gallantry was noticed, and he well deserved it.
Brigadier Stuart was made a Companion of the Bath, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Durand became colonel, and Captains Gall,
Robertson, Woolcombe, and Hungerford, received the rank
of brevet-major for their services.'
This brings to an end the campaign of 1857, in which the
left wing of the Fourteenth under Major Gall played such
a prominent part whilst with the Deccan Field Force, and
afterwards in the ist Brigade of the Malwa and Nerbudda
Field Forces, commanded by Brigadier C. S. Stuart of the
Bombay army.
The right wing of the Fourteenth had meanwhile marched Movements
from Aurungabad and the Deccan under Major Scudamore, wing! "
on 3ist October, in order to reach Sehore, a town in the
Bhopal state, Central India, where a mutiny had broken out
amongst the Bhopal contingent. They marched by way of
Asseerghur and Hoosingabad, Lieutenant Travers acting as
staff officer. The town at Sehore is a large one, and is
situated 22 miles to the west of Bhopal. After a long march
Scudamore's wing reached Sehore the 23rd November, and
formed part of the 2nd Brigade of the Nerbudda Field Force
under Brigadier Charles Steuart. On the i7th December this
wing became a part of the 2nd Brigade, Central India Field
Force, commanded by Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B.,
as already related.1
Active preparations for the coming campaign in Central
India were carried on during the remaining few days of 1857,
both at Mhow and Sehore : the siege-train was hurried on
to completion, and the transport improved, while camels in
abundance were easily procured in the surrounding districts of
Malwa and Rajputana.
The small portion of the Fourteenth, representing the
depot or headquarters of the service troops, remained at
Kirkee till the end of the year, under command of Colonel
C. P. Ainslie, and on 29th November sent some detachments
from Kirkee to Sattara in the southern part of the Bombay
1 See page 268.
2;o HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Presidency, where they were required for temporary duty.
During 1857 the dep6t troop in England remained under the
commandant of the Maidstone Cavalry Depot, Colonel C. M.
Balders.
Establishment The establishment of the Fourteenth had been augmented
fronTgto 10 in June from 9 to 10 troops, and consisted of —
troops- 59 Sergeants. 40 Corporals.
14 Trumpeters. 626 Privates.
10 Farriers. 703 Troop-horses.
1858
This proved a very memorable and eventful year in the
history of the Fourteenth, owing to a succession of most
brilliant services performed by them in Central India, Gwalior,
Bundelcund, and the North-west Provinces, during the sup-
pression of the Indian Mutiny. 'The Fighting Fourteenth,'
a sobriquet gained nearly fifty years earlier in the Peninsular
campaign, was most amply justified in this campaign by the
successors of the men who gained it ; and these by their
gallantry and valour, displayed in many an action, siege, and
pursuit in which they took part, during these operations
conducted against the rebels, have added to the long list of
honourable distinctions already earned by the regiment yet
another name — that of 'Central India.'1 During the whole
year of 1858 and for several months in 1859 the Four-
teenth were continuously in the field, either in brigade or
movable column, hunting up the rebels, and most of these
services were performed under the command of those two able
leaders, Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B.,2 and Major-
General Sir Robert C. Napier, K.C.B.3
Central India The Central India Field Force consisted of 2 brigades, as
Field Force, r 11
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viz. 8th Hussars, i2th Lancers, and i7th Lancers.
2 Afterwards Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.
3 Afterwards Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B., G.C.I.E.
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At Mhow, \st Brigade, commanded by Colonel C. S.
Stuart, Bombay Army, as Brigadier, consisting of —
Left wing, i4th Light Dragoons under Major Gall.
1 Troop 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry.
2 Regiments of cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent.
2 Companies 86th Regiment (Royal County Down).1
25th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry.
i Regiment of infantry, Hyderabad Contingent.
fi Royal Artillery.
3 Light Field Batteries \ i Bombay Artillery.
1 1 Hyderabad Contingent.
Detachment of sappers.
At Sekore, 2nd Brigade, commanded by Colonel C. Steuart,
1 4th Light Dragoons, as Brigadier, consisting of —
Right wing and headquarters i4th Light Dragoons,
under Major Scudamore.
Headquarters 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry,
i Regiment of cavalry, Hyderabad Contingent.
3rd Bombay European Regiment.2
24th Bombay Native Infantry,
i Regiment of infantry, Hyderabad Contingent,
i Battery Horse Artillery,
i Light Field Battery,
i Battery Bhopal Artillery,
i Company Madras Sappers.
Detachment of Bombay Sappers.
Siege-train, with guns worked in action by drafts from
field batteries.
The recent hard work and privations to which most of these
troops had been exposed during their services in the Malwa
and Nerbudda campaigns necessitated some repose before
starting on a fresh campaign. We have recounted what they
1 The remainder of the 86th Regiment joined this brigade later, on i6th March,
the day before the attack and capture of Chanderi.
2 Now the 2nd Battalion of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal
Canadians), late loyth Regiment.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Malleson's
and Durand's
tribute to
Major Gall
and the
1 4th Light
Dragoons.
did at Aurungabad, Boldana (in Berar), Dhar, Mundesor,
Goraria, and Mehidpoor ; it now remains to record their
gallant deeds in Central India.
Malleson bears ample testimony to the good services of the
Fourteenth, and particularly of that gallant officer, Major R. H.
Gall, afterwards Major-General Gall, C.B., who commanded
the left wing of the regiment at this period.1 He says, when
referring to the Malwa campaign and operations carried on
towards the close of the year 1857 : — 'Many officers distin-
guished themselves in this campaign. One of these, who for his
daring, his gallantry, and his brain power, was especially noticed
by Colonel Durand, requires mention here. " Much of the
success in quelling this insurrection," wrote Durand2 to Lord
Canning at the end of November 1857, " is due to the judicious
daring, the thorough gallantry with which, whenever oppor-
tunity offered, Major Gall, his officers and men, sought close
conflict with the enemy — a bold one, who often fought most
desperately. I feel it a duty to Major Gall and Her Majesty's
1 4th Light Dragoons, men and officers, thus especially to beg
your lordship's influence in favour of officers and men who have
merited, by conspicuous valour, everything that Her Majesty's
Government may be pleased to confer. They deserve most
highly."5
After a rest of three weeks at Mhow and Indore, Major-
General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., took the field with the
Central India Field Force and the Hyderabad Contingent
Field Force. He left Mhow on 6th January escorted by a
troop of the Fourteenth and some Hyderabad Contingent
Artillery, and accompanied by the Agent to the Governor-
General at Indore, Sir Robert Hamilton, who was the
political officer for the whole of Central India. On arriving
at Sehore on 8th January, the Major-General found there the
2nd Brigade of the Central India Field Force, under command
1 History of the Indian Mutiny ', by Kaye and Malleson (Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1898), from which work many quotations have been made in these records. See
vol. v. p. 59.
2 Colonel Henry Marion Durand, R.E., Officiating Agent to the Governor-General
for Central India.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 273
of Brigadier Charles Steuart, C.B., I4th Light Dragoons, in
which was the right wing of the Fourteenth under command of
Major Scudamore. Brigadier Steuart had just been awarded
the Companionship of the Order of the Bath for his services in
Persia in 1857.
On 1 5th January, Lieutenants Leith and Dew with 'E' troop
of the 1 4th Light Dragoons arrived at Sehore from Mhow,
escorting the much-needed siege-train for the 2nd Brigade.
Sir Hugh Rose on arrival at Sehore lost no time in bringing
the mutineers of the Bhopal contingent to punishment. There
were about 1 50 of them, who were put to death after having Bhopal
been found guilty by a drumhead court-martial. They were all shot.
shot. Stent, in his Scraps from my Sabretache, relates how that
the number to be shot was 149, but that after the execution
1 50 bodies were counted, and he accounts for it by saying that
1 a brother of one of the prisoners came to see the last of him,
and in the melte must have shared his brother's fate, whether
by accident, or purposely, no one knew.' It is said by the
same authority, that as the rebels knew our words of command
perfectly, when the word ' Fire ! ' was given many threw them-
selves down uninjured on the ground, the shots passing harm-
lessly over them, and these had to be afterwards despatched by
men placed near for the purpose with muskets and carbines.
The 2nd Brigade and the Hyderabad troops left Sehore on
1 6th January. They had been reinforced by 800 men of Bhopal
levies, contributed by the loyal Begum of that principality, and
all marched for the relief of Saugor, where the garrison was
besieged by rebels ; but Rathgur had first to be reduced.
Malleson says: — 'The ist Brigade left Mhow on the loth
January, and then marched in a line parallel with the 2nd
Brigade upon Chanderi, a very famous fortress in the territories
of Sindhia.' The operations of the ist Brigade will be referred
to further on.1 We will now follow the fortunes of the 2nd
Brigade, with regard to which Malleson2 writes : — 'Rathgur,3
distant only 25 miles from Saugor, is situated on the spur of a
1 See page 280. * Vol. v. pp. 95, 96. 8 Or Ratghur.
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274 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Fort of long high hill and commands the country surrounding it. Near
besieged, its base runs a deep and rapid river, the Bind. Altogether it
was a most formidable position. Sir Hugh Rose arrived before
this place on the morning of the 24th January. He at once,
with small loss, drove the enemy from the outside positions
they had occupied in the town and on the banks of the river,
and then completely invested the place. Fronting the eastern
face he posted the Bhopal levies, facing the northern the 3rd
Bombay Light Cavalry and the Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry.
With the remainder of the force he occupied the plain across
which runs the road to Saugor. He then reconnoitred the
ground preparatory to selecting sites for his breaching batteries.
Early on the morning of the 26th Sir Hugh Rose made a move
forward. Crossing the Saugor road with the 3rd Europeans,
followed by the i8-pounders, howitzers and mortars, and the
guns of the Hyderabad Contingent, he entered the jungle.
But no sooner had these troops reached a point well within its
thick covering than the enemy, who had been working near,
fired the jungle-grass on all sides. For a few moments the
position was perilous, but Sir Hugh, turning back beyond the
range of the flames, sent his sappers to cut a road for the guns
up the height to the north of the town. This operation and the
bringing up of the guns occupied the greater part of the day.
Meanwhile the remainder of the force had occupied the town
of Rathgur, and driven the enemy within the fort.'
During the 26th, 27th, and 28th, Sir Hugh besieged the
fort with his mortar battery and other artillery, whilst the 3rd
Europeans employed their Enfield rifles to suppress the match-
lock fire of the enemy. By 10 P.M. on 28th, a large breach
had been made in the fort. That same night, as related by
Malleson l : ' The Rajah of Banpur advanced on the rear of
the besieging force with a considerable body of revolted
Sepoys and other levies. He came on with great boldness,
his standards flying and his men singing their national hymns.
Instead of ceasing his fire against the fort Sir Hugh Rose
1 Vol. v. p. 97.
1858] THE 14x11 (KING'S) HUSSARS 275
redoubled it, but at the same time detached a small force,
consisting of a detachment of the i4th Light Dragoons, the
3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, the Horse Artillery, and the 5th
Hyderabad Infantry, to deal with the Rajah of Banpur and his
followers. They did not wait to be charged, but throwing
away their arms and ammunition, made off with such celerity
that, though hotly pursued, a few only were cut up.'
After this relieving party of the rebels had been driven off The fort
those within the fort apparently lost heart. The garrison was
said to number from 500 to 600 men — Velaitees, Mekranies, l858
and Bundeelas, all fighting-men from their boyhood ; but they
silently evacuated the fort during the night. When Sir Hugh
discovered the precipitate flight of the garrison he gave orders
for a pursuit, but the rebels had gone too far, and no great
results came of it. About noon on the 3Oth January informa- Engagement
tion came that ' the Rajah of Banpur, reinforced by the garrison,
had taken up a position near the village of Barodia, about 1 5
miles distant.'1 Sir Hugh, with a considerable portion of his of the
force of all arms, including the greater part of his cavalry Dragoons
(3 troops Fourteenth and a squadron of Bombay Cavalry), Present
went in pursuit. ' About four o'clock in the afternoon he came
upon them posted on the banks of the Bma, and prepared
to dispute his passage. Sir Hugh at once attacked, and,
though the rebels fought well, he forced the passage of the
river. The country on the other side was thick and bushy,
and the rebels took every advantage of it. From the river to
Barodia, Sir Hugh had to fight his way step by step. He did
not do this without loss.'2 Captain Neville, R.E.,3 was killed,
and numerous other casualties of officers and men occurred
in killed and wounded. The Rajah himself escaped, but his
followers were completely defeated, and the column returned
to Rathgur about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 3ist
January. Malleson remarks : ' The fall of Rathgur had effected
two most important objects. It had cleared the country south
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 98 et seq. 2 Ibid.
3 This officer had only just joined the force. He had served with distinction in
the Crimean campaign.
276 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
of Saugor of rebels, had re-opened the road to Indore, and
had made it possible for the General to march to the relief of
Saugor, now beleaguered for nearly eight months. ' l
Amongst the rebel chiefs who fell into the hands of the
British at the capture of Rathgur was Mahomed Fazil Khan, one
of the Delhi royal family. He was captured, when hiding, by a
native servant in the employment of Captain Need, I4th Light
Dragoons. This fortunate native servant obtained a handsome
pecuniary reward which had been set on Mahomed Fazil Khan's
head by the Government, and the luckless chieftain was doomed
to be hanged over the gate of the fort, where his body was seen
suspended by the side of Khamdar Khan, a former adherent
of the British in Kolara, who had recently thrown in his lot
with the mutineers. The charger of Lieutenant Redmayne,
1 4th Light Dragoons, who fell in action at Mundesor on 23rd
November 1857, was recovered here when the British captured
the fort.2 The animal had received a severe shell-wound over
the eye, and was purchased by Sir Hugh Rose. The Shah-
zadah of Mundesor took possession of it when Lieutenant
Redmayne fell, and had brought it to Rathgur, but he aban-
doned it in his flight.
Our cavalry pursued the fugitive garrison from Rathgur,
and succeeded in cutting up several chieftains as well as
about 70 rebels, and nearly 100 followers were taken prisoners.3
' The standards taken here, as at Mundesor, were marked
with the crescent and bloody hand. Before leaving Rath-
gur the fortifications and defences were laid waste by the
Engineers, and Sir Hugh Rose led his troops in triumph to
Saugor re- Saugor.' 4 The 3ist Native Infantry had remained loyal, so
lieved, 3rd , , . , r „
February 1858. the houses and property in the cantonments 01 baugor were
intact. Stent remarks : — ' As we passed under the walls of the
fort we were greeted by the ladies, who thronged the battle-
ments, with the waving of hands and handkerchiefs (I will not
be positive that they did not even cheer us), and we were proud
1 Malleson has ' Saga>,' ' Indur,' ' Raigarh' or ' Rdhatgarh.'
2 See p. 266 n. 3 Sylvester, pp. 60-62. 4 Sylvester.
1858] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 277
to think that our timely arrival had saved them from the
clutches of the rebels. Saugor had been from six to seven
months beleaguered, and the poor creatures shut up there had
heard with intense delight the pounding of our guns at Rathgur,
which is only 22 miles distant.'1 The relief of Saugor took
place on the 3rd of February, and the column rested there
several days. On the 8th a small force was sent under command
of Captain Hare, Hyderabad Contingent, to destroy the fort of
Sanoda. On the 9th, Sir Hugh Rose marched with his troops
towards the fort of Garrakota,2 standing on an elevated plateau
25 miles east of Saugor, with the wide river Sonar flowing past
it. According to Malleson the fortifications were strong. He
says : ' It was held by the revolted Sipahis (Sepoys) of the 5ist
and 52nd Native Infantry and other rebels, well supplied with
ammunition.'3
' G ' troop of the Fourteenth, under command of Captain
William McMahon, together with 2 companies of the 24th
Bombay Native Infantry, was left for the time in Saugor
to protect the station when the remainder of the Central India
Field Force marched on Garrakota.
Sir Hugh Rose with his force arrived in sight of Garrakota Capture of the
on the afternoon of the nth, and made a thorough recon- Garrakota,
naissance of the place. He drove in the rebels from the Jl^'
village of Basari,4 where they occupied a position, and next
day commenced his attack. A steady fire from our guns and
mortars was kept up all day : this silenced the enemy's guns,
but under cover of darkness the garrison slipped away by the
Paunch Ghat towards Dumoh and made good their escape,
as, owing to the smallness of our besieging force, it was
unable to guard this part of the fort. As soon as the flight
of the garrison was reported, early on the morning of
the 1 3th, Captain Hare with the Hyderabad Cavalry, 2
Horse Artillery guns under Lieutenant Crowe, and 2 troops
Fourteenth under Captain R. J. Brown and Captain Arthur
1 Scraps from my Sabretache, p. 188. * Garhakota (Malleson).
3 Vol. v. p. 99. 4 Or Bassaree.
278 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Need, followed in pursuit. They came up with the rebels
at the Bias l river, a tributary of the Sonar, near the village of
Bias. The cavalry and guns crossed the river, and the latter
Gallant charge opened fire, then the cavalry charged and pursued for a con-
and^K^ siderable distance. Captain Need highly distinguished himself
c°°PaS' "^Need ^v ^s bravery and swordsmanship. The cavalry slew nearly
and Brown at joo men, and of these Captain Need himself killed 5.2 The
the Bias river, rir- i i / A > j < rr »
nearGarrakota, 2 troops of the r ourtcenth engaged were ' A and K troops,
1858 Fe iary tne captains of which were Need and Brown, with Lieutenants
Leith and Dew. In Captain Hare's report of the affair he
speaks of Captain Need, i4th Light Dragoons, as 'a good and
dashing cavalry officer,' and he specially mentions in terms of
the highest praise the gallant conduct of Captain Need and his
troop, adding, ' Captain Need pursued with his gallant troop
until dark.' Sir Hugh Rose recommended Captain Need to
the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Commander-
in-Chief in India for his services on this occasion.
A large quantity of supplies fell into our hands at Garra-
kota, as the place was well stored with provisions of grain,
flour, etc. There was also a collection of all sorts of loot,
evidently derived from English sources, and plundered by the
natives from the houses of the English. Sir Hugh had a por-
tion of the fortress destroyed under direction of Major Boileau
and the Madras sappers and miners, and then marched back
to Saugor, arriving there 1 5th February. Captain McMahon's
troop of the i4th Light Dragoons then rejoined the right wing
of the regiment under Major Scudamore.
Malleson 3 says : — ' Jhansi, 125 miles distant to the north,
was the next point to be aimed at. But between Saugor and
Jhansi lay the passes of Malthone and Muddenpore, the
forts of Surahi and of Maraura, the towns of Shahgarh and
Banpiir.4 After overcoming the obstacles which these places
1 Or Beas. 2 See Appendix B, p. 592, etc. 3 Vol. v. p. 100.
4 ' Mariura lies 37 miles north of S£gar, and 22 west by north of Shdhg£rh.
Shahgarh lies 40 miles north-east of S£gar. Binpur is in the Ldlitpur district '
(Malleson).
1858] THE i4TH (KINGS) HUSSARS 279
would probably offer, Sir Hugh would have, before marching
on Jhansf, to effect a junction with his ist Brigade under
Brigadier Stuart. He could scarcely move from Saugor until
he should hear that Brigadier Whitlock's column had started
from Jubbulpore1 for that place. Meanwhile he would have
time to repair damages and to store supplies.
'At length news came that Whitlock had left Jubbulpore.
Sir Hugh's preparations were now as complete as they could
be made.' He had, according to Malleson, caused to be
collected large supplies of sheep, goats, oxen, grain, flour, tea,
soda-water, an additional supply of elephants, and summer
clothing for his European soldiers. In addition he had trans-
ferred the sick and wounded to the Saugor Field Hospital,
and re-supplied the siege-train with ammunition, strengthening
it by the addition of heavy guns, howitzers, and large mortars
from the Saugor arsenal. On the 26th February a start
was made; on the 27th the fort of Barodia was shelled and Barodia fort
taken. On 3rd March the pass of Malthone was sighted, but
it was resolved to force the pass of Muddenpore, making I8s8<
simultaneously a feint on Malthone Pass, which was fortified
and held in force by the rebels. For this purpose Major
Scudamore, with a squadron of the Fourteenth, some guns,
some native infantry and other details was detached, whilst
with the main body of his force Sir Hugh moved rapidly on
the pass of Muddenpore. 'He soon came under the fire of Muddenpore
the defenders, supposed to number 9000 men, chiefly composed
of Bundeelas and Velaitees, as well as some Bengal Sepoys.'* I8s8-
For a time the British advance was checked and the fire was
so heavy that their guns had to be retired some distance, and
Sir Hugh's horse was shot under him. Later on the superior
tactics of the British prevailed, and a determined bayonet charge
by the 3rd Europeans,3 aided by the Hyderabad Infantry,
completely carried the day. The enemy fled in disorder into
the town, but our howitzers drove them out of that, and they
1 Jabalpur (Malleson). 2 Sylvester, p. 67.
3 Now the 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment.
280
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
fled to the jungles pursued by the cavalry, amongst which were
3 troops of the Fourteenth, who drove them up to the fort of
Saralic. Major Scudamore received the thanks of the Major-
General for the able and successful manner in which he had
conducted the feint on Malthone.
'The effect of this victory,' writes Malleson,1 'was very
great. It so daunted the rebels that they evacuated without
a blow the formidable pass of Malthone, the fort of Narhat to
the rear of it, the little fort of Sarahi, the strong fort of
Mardura, the fortified castle of Banpiir (the residence of the
rebel Rajah called after it), and the almost impregnable fortress
of Tal-Bahat on the heights above the lake of that name.
They abandoned also the line of the Bind and the Betwa, with
the exception of the fortress of Chanderi, on the left bank of
the latter river.'
Operations of It will now be necessary to return for a time to the
in?iae' operations of the ist Brigade, Central India Field Force,2
which we left at Mhow in January of this year, under
command of Brigadier Stuart, Bombay army, and in which
Major Gall with the left wing of the Fourteenth was serving.
Stuart left Mhow on the loth January, and marched along
the Agra Trunk road as far as Goona. About 70 miles to
the east of Goona are situated the fort and important town of
Chanderi. The former is situated on a lofty hill, and during
the month of February 1858 numbers of the rebel Sepoys
already defeated by the 2nd Brigade of the Central India
Field Force, as above related, flocked thither for refuge,
and with a firm determination to make a last stand there
against the British troops. On the 5th of March, Stuart arrived
in the vicinity of Chanderi, and the men encamped near a
small village 6 miles short of the town, in order to give time
for a thorough reconnaissance of the position. A party of the
1 4th Light Dragoons and Irregular Horse,3 accompanied by
Major Gall of the Fourteenth, Captain Fenwick, R.E., Major
Keatinge* of the Bombay Artillery, the political agent, and
Field Force.
Chanderi
attacked by
ist Brigade,
5th March
1858.
1 Vol. v. p. 103.
3 Sylvester.
2 See page 273.
4 Afterwards General Keatinge, V.C.
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Assistant-Surgeon J. H. Sylvester,1 attached to the i4th (King's)
Light Dragoons, were sent forward through the dense jungle
to reconnoitre. After proceeding a considerable distance the
party was fired upon by a volley of musketry, and as it would
have been the height of folly to proceed further, the presence of
the enemy having been ascertained, the party returned to camp.
Next day, 6th March, with a strong advance-guard under
Major Robertson, Bombay army, we advanced on this once
famous place. 1 1 is said that Chanderi z was very important in the
prosperous days of the Moghul Empire. Malleson says there
was a proverb in the time of Akbar, ' If you want to see a town
whose houses are palaces, visit Chanderi.' It has been described
as being in those days a city possessing 14,00x3 houses built
of stone, 384 markets, 360 caravansaries, and 12,000 mosques.
The oppression of the Mahrattas subsequently brought it to
a very different state, added to which its manufactures had
suffered from competition with Manchester. Although its
former splendour had departed, much that was picturesque
remained at the time it fell into our hands.
There was a good deal of fighting outside the fort on the
6th as our advance-guard moved forward. The infantry
advanced in skirmishing order, 2 companies 86th Regiment
and 25th Bombay Native Infantry, whilst the artillery opened
with round-shot and shell, driving the rebels from the outlying
ruins and summer-houses, out of which they had been firing
upon us as we passed through an intervening gorge. The
enemy then took shelter behind a loop-holed wall, which
defended the fort and town at the point where we advanced
to the attack. After a while this position was taken by our
men, and the enemy retired within the town and fort, half
a mile distant. Our brigade subsequently encamped on one
of the hills which commanded the fort on the west side.
For the next few days our men were employed in clearing
1 Mr. Sylvester was in medical charge of the left wing of the Fourteenth through-
out this campaign. He belonged to the Indian Medical Service, and served later in
Beatson's Horse and Mayne's Horse (and Regiment).
2 Chanderi is in the Gwalior State.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Chanderi
taken,
1 7th March
1858.
Lieutenant
Gowan with
' C ' troop,
1 4th Light
Dragoons,
makes a
successful feint
at the storming
of the fort of
Chanderi.
out the surrounding villages, in reconnoitring, and in placing
guns in favourable positions. The cavalry were kept busy
reconnoitring, but the ground was not suitable for horsemen to
act in. The 24-pounder guns were dragged up by elephants
on the loth March, and by the i3th of that month the breach-
ing batteries commenced to fire. On the next day a breach was
effected, and on the I7th the fort was stormed by the men of
the 86th Regiment (now the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles,
formerly the County Down Regiment), who had been augmented
by the arrival of their other wing the day before, as well as the
25th Bombay Native Infantry. The assault was eminently
successful : the rebels for the most part hurled themselves over
the parapets and made a hasty retreat. Our cavalry was not
numerous enough to prevent the escape of the garrison, as the
fort and town were so extensive and of such great size. A
magazine exploded during the capture, by which several men
of the 86th Regiment were killed and others badly injured and
burned. Most of the enemy effected their escape through the
town ; any that remained were shot down or bayonetted. The
3 troops of the Fourteenth which were present under Major
Gall had been chiefly employed in patrolling and reconnoitring,
but the country at Chanderi was not in any way suitable for
the action of cavalry. On the night before the assault Lieu-
tenant Gowan with ' C ' troop of the Fourteenth was posted
in a selected position, and at the signal for the assault at day-
break on the morning of the 1 7th, made a very successful feint
by firing some rounds of blank ammunition so as to draw away
the attention of the garrison from the real point of attack.
This duty was most satisfactorily carried out, and Lieutenant
Gowan and his troop received the thanks of the Brigadier for
its complete success. The fort of Chanderi alone was 4 miles
in circumference, and occupied a very commanding situation,
with a fine view over the surrounding country. All the guns
as well as stores of grain and salt fell into our hands, but
nothing of value, and only about 100 of the rebels were killed.1
The British loss was 29, including 2 officers.
1 Sylvester.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 283
On the 1 5th, Lieutenant Dowker and 30 sowars of the
Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry had arrived with despatches
for the Brigadier from Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, who
was anxiously looking for our junction with him and the 2nd
Brigade in front of Jhansi.
As it was the i/th March, the bands all played 4St.
Patrick's Day' whilst the troops marched through the now
deserted town to their camp, and of course the men of the
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment were the heroes of
the hour. As soon as the fort had been dismantled the ist
Brigade moved away to join Sir Hugh Rose in the vicinity
of Jhansi.
On iQth March the left wing of the Fourteenth was
ordered from Chanderi to Jhansi to join the right wing
and headquarters of the regiment, which were with the 2nd
Brigade, and had arrived there on the 2Oth inst. Accordingly
Major Gall made all haste, and by forced marches his 3 troops
covered 70 miles in 2 days, arriving in front of Jhansi on
the 2ist March, in good time to take part with the rest of
the regiment in the investment and ultimate capture of that
important city and fortress.
According to Malleson, both Lord Canning, the Governor- Jhansi.
General of India, and Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of
Bombay, attached the very greatest importance to the fall of
Jhansi. Jhansi was regarded as the stronghold of rebel power
in Central India, the main strength of the formidable rebel
force on the Jumna. Here, too, English men and women
about 9 months earlier had been slaughtered under circum-
stances of peculiar atrocity.
It was on the 2oth March that Brigadier Steuart with the
cavalry and artillery of the 2nd Brigade of the Central India
Field Force had arrived and invested Jhansi. With this
brigade were 5 troops of the Fourteenth, being the right wing
of the regiment, under Major Scudamore's command, number-
ing 325 rank and file ; and it was on the following day that
the other 3 troops of the regiment, composing the left wing,
under Major Gall, numbering about 200 rank and file, also
284 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
arrived. On the 22nd March the city and fortress were
completely invested by our cavalry.1 When Sir Hugh Rose
arrived in front of Jhansi with the 2nd Brigade, the latter was
halted for a time in the plains at some distance from the town,
and the Major-General with his staff and escort proceeded
to reconnoitre the position thoroughly. This was not done
without attracting the fire of the enemy's batteries from all
sides. Malleson- says : — ' It was at 9 A.M. on 2ist March when
Sir Hugh Rose arrived at Jhansi, and he did not finish his
reconnaissance of the place till 6 P.M., so completely did he do
the work. The city was walled in ; the fortress, standing on
a high granite rock, was due north of the city, overlooking it.
The fortress commands the city and surrounding country ; it
is built of excellent and most massive masonry ; it is difficult
to breach because, composed of granite, its walls vary in thick-
ness from sixteen to twenty feet. It has extensive and elaborate
outworks of the same solid construction, with front and flanking
embrasures for artillery-fire, and loop-holes, of which in some
places there were five tiers, for musketry. Guns placed on
the high towers of the fort commanded the country all around.
On one tower, called the " white turret," then recently raised
in height, waved in proud defiance the standard of the high-
spirited Ranee.3 The fortress is surrounded on all sides by the
city of Jhansi, the west and part of the south face excepted.
The steepness of the rock protects the west ; the fortified city
wall springs from the centre of its south face, running south-
east, and ends in a high mound or mamelon, which protects by
a flanking fire its south face. The mound was fortified by a
strong circular bastion for five guns composed of solid masonry,
round part of which was drawn a ditch twelve feet deep and
fifteen broad.
' The city of Jhansi is about four miles and a half in cir-
cumference. It is surrounded by a fortified and massive wall,
from six to twelve feet thick, and varying in height from
eighteen to thirty feet, with numerous flanking bastions armed
1 See Appendix B, pp. 582-83. * VoL v. p. 108 tt stq. * Rani (Malleson).
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 285
as batteries, with ordnance, and loop-holes, and with a ban-
quette for infantry.' l
According to Malleson, the town and fortress were garri-
soned by 1 1 ,000 men, composed of rebel Sepoys, foreign
mercenaries, and local levies, and they were led by a woman
who believed her cause to be just, and who, classified according
to Channing's definition of greatness, was a heroine, though of
the third order.
In his long reconnaissance of the 2ist March, Sir Hugh
Rose had noted all the strong points of the defence, and had
examined the nature of the ground. He noted the many diffi-
culties presented to the attack by the fort perched on a lofty
granite rock, with its three lines of works, its flanking fire,
its thick and solid walls. He had discovered that it would
be necessary to take the city prior to assailing the fortress,
a work involving double labour and double danger. In this
reconnaissance, however, he had decided on his plan of attack.
That night he was joined by the cavalry of the ist Brigade :
the next day he completely invested the city and fortress Jhansi
. i | . 1 9 invested.
with his cavalry.
The cavalry investment was carried out with great tact Flying camps
and discretion. There were seven flying camps of cavalry roun
established with their chain of outposts and vedettes on duty
round the city day and night. Stent's3 description of the
part taken by his troop gives a good idea of what the work
was : — 'My troop [of the i4th Light Dragoons], the "K," under
Captain Brown, numbered about 60 men. We were expected
to cover a certain portion of the city, to see that none escaped,
or to turn out at any moment, and on any emergency. Con-
sequently we were never out of harness, sleeping in front
of our horses, which were always ready saddled and bridled —
never having the bits taken out of their mouths, night or
1 The above description, Malleson says (vol. v. p. 109, footnote), is taken from
Sir H. Rose's despatch of 3Oth April 1858, where it is stated, 'a remarkable feature
in the defence was that the enemy had no works or forts outside the city.'
2 See Appendix B, p. 582. 3 Scraps from my Sabretache^ p. 197, etc.
286 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
day, except a few at a time for feeding purposes, or to give
them a drink in comfort, so that it came harder on the
horses than it did on us. As for ourselves, I don't think
we were able to change our clothes, or have a wash, for
about a fortnight, and it may be imagined that we were
rather dirty, and that a bath would have done the whole
of us good ; but we couldn't even wash our faces, to say
nothing of the elaborate luxury of a bath. Yet somehow,
in spite of this and the dreadful heat, none of us fell sick,
and all of us seemed to enjoy the life we led. One day, six
privates and myself were out in charge of a young Irish officer
Comet of the regiment, belonging to " K " troop, named Beamish,
catches Sepoys, and we had caught a party of Sepoys in a small building.
They had retreated up a narrow staircase which was only
wide enough for one to go up at a time, and could easily
have kept us at bay if they had not been apparently panic-
struck at our appearance. We had all dismounted, and our
leader was soon busily engaged pulling the Sepoys one by
one down the stairs by their " hind-legs " (as a comrade
observed), and handing them over to our tender mercies.
This amusement highly delighted Cornet Beamish, who, when
he had finished, declared it was much better fun than " drawing
badgers,"
' One cavalry flying camp was commanded by Major Gall
with a squadron of the Fourteenth from the ist Brigade. One
was commanded by Captain Thompson, i4th Light Dragoons,
and it was posted near the water palace and lakes of Jhansi.
Another was under Captain Forbes, 3rd Bombay Light
Cavalry. Three more were commanded by Captains Abbott,
Murray, and Clarke, Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry, and
Major Scudamore commanded the seventh, and he was
placed in command of the whole of the investing force of
cavalry, and on the night before the battle of the Betwa
(3ist March) he had command of the whole of the troops
employed in the investment of the city and fortress. Brigadier
Stuart with his ist Brigade from Chanderi arrived about 24th
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 287
March and was encamped about 2 miles from the 2nd Brigade,
and i mile from the fortress of Jhansi. The siege commenced siege of
on the 22nd March, and what was called the besieging force 22ndSMarch
was divided into two attacks. The right attack was near I8s8'
the water palace and was carried on by the 2nd Brigade.
The left attack was placed opposite the mamelon, and being
carried on by the ist Brigade, it was not thoroughly com-
menced until 25th March. From this date the siege was
carried on with great vigour, and the system of investment
by the "flying camps" of cavalry was most admirably con-
ducted— it was said a cat couldn't pass their lines. Day after
day the same routine was rigidly enforced. No quarter was
given : those attempting to escape from the city were cut off
by our vedettes and sentries, or attacked by our ambush
parties posted at night. There was not a night passed but
a large number of prisoners were taken by our cavalry
picquets, and many of these were summarily disposed of
Malleson says: — 'For 17 days the fire from the besieging
batteries and from the walls of the city and fort was incessant.
Shot and shell were poured into the city, and the enemy's guns
never ceased to reply. The labour imposed upon the small
force of the besiegers was tremendous. During the period
of which I have spoken, the men never took off their clothes,
and the horses were not unbridled except to water. Nor
were the exertions of the besieged less determined. Women
and children were seen assisting in repairing the defences of
the walls, and in carrying water and food to the troops on duty,
whilst the Ranee constantly visited the troops and animated
them to enthusiasm by her presence and her words.'
As we had only 2 i8-pounders for breaching purposes,
the progress made against the massive masonry of the walls
was somewhat slow, but by the 29th March the mamelon guns
were silenced by the fire of our left attack, and on 3oth and
3ist our cannonading was continued with renewed vigour so
that a breach, not, however, yet practicable, had been made.
Unluckily, just at this juncture Sir Hugh received in-
288 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
The army of tclligcnce of the advance of a relieving army, which was the
attempts the so-called army of the Peishwa, advancing on Jhansi from the
uS^S5* north. Tantia Topee, the agent of Nana Sahib, was leading
Topee. this army at the entreaty of the Ranee, and it was said
that he had in his ranks Sepoys from numerous mutinous
regiments, as well as levies from several rebel rajahs, and
some of the finest regiments of the disaffected Gwalior
contingent. His numbers were estimated at 22,000 men and
28 guns.
Such a sudden and unexpected danger placed Sir Hugh
Rose in a most perilous position : he saw that to withdraw
the troops then investing the fortress for the purpose of
attacking this new enemy would be a most unwise and
dangerous step. So he determined to gather together all the
men he could who were not actually on duty in the siege, and
face the foe with these, whilst at the same time the siege
should be continued with unabated vigour by the others.
Under this arrangement only 1500 men, including 500
British, were available to march against Tantia Topee's
thousands. The force selected was furnished by detach-
ments taken from both brigades. The detachments from the
ist Brigade were led by Brigadier C. S. Stuart, whilst Sir
Hugh Rose himself led those supplied by the 2nd Brigade.
On the night of the 3ist March the men bivouacked in their
clothes with everything ready at hand for immediate action.
At 4 o'clock on the morning of the ist April, Tantia Topee
advanced towards the British encampments around Jhansi,
hoping to sweep us from the face of the earth. Half an hour
later, according to Malleson, our picquets fell back and gave
the British general warning of the approach of the enemy,
who came up to within 800 yards, completely overlapping our
small line, and apparently hoping to envelop our flanks.
The rebel guns immediately unlimbered and opened fire.
The immense line of Tantia Topee's looked as if it would
completely hem in and crush not only the small force brought
out against it by Sir Hugh, but also the whole investing force
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 289
round Jhansi, in which case we should have been placed be- Battle of the
tween two fires — Tantia Topee's on the one side, and the S' April 1858.
guns of Jhansi on the other. Luckily Sir Hugh was able to
grasp the situation, and in an instant he took the necessary
steps to ward off this impending danger. He placed Captain
Lightfoot's field battery on his left with a squadron of the
Fourteenth under Captain Prettejohn : these were ordered
to attack the enemy's right. In the centre he placed his
heavy guns and infantry : the latter consisted of the 3rd
Europeans 1 under Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell, the 24th Bom-
bay Native Infantry, and the Hyderabad Contingent Infantry.
Of these the 24th were formed as a support, which materially
weakened the first line, but was unavoidable. The ist Brigade
detachments under Brigadier C. S. Stuart had been intended
for Sir Hugh's second line, but he had subsequently ordered
them off by a circuitous route to our left to watch some fords
of the river and to prevent any portion of the rebels' forces
from doubling back on Jhansi, in which case they would have
cut off Colonel Scudamore's flying camps of cavalry.
The infantry in the centre of our first line were placed
behind some rising ground, and were lying down to avoid the
heavy fire poured forth by the enemy at his first attack, and
their orders were to advance so soon as the cavalry and
artillery attacks on both our flanks were well developed.
On his. right flank Sir Hugh placed Captain Need with a
troop of the Fourteenth, as well as a troop of the Nizam's
Cavalry under Clarke, and the Eagle Troop of Horse Artillery
(the ist troop of Bombay Horse Artillery), commanded by
Lieutenant - Colonel Turnbull.2 These were to attack the
enemy's left. Sir Hugh Rose himself took command of the
right of his line. At first it looked as if our guns would
prove powerless to check the onward rush of the enemy, who
so greatly outnumbered us, but Sir Hugh's tactics, as it
happened, turned out to be exactly suited to the exigencies
1 The 3rd Bombay European Infantry, afterwards the ioo,th Regiment, now the
2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment. 2 Now ' N ' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery.
T
29o HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
of the moment. In order to enfilade the enemy's left he sent
forward 2 guns from the Horse Artillery on our right under
Lieutenant T. C. Crowe,1 who moved diagonally to his right,
and although one of the guns was disabled, the fire of the
other was so rapid and so correct that the enemy's left was
shaken.2 The enemy's centre advanced very steadily, and
poured in a heavy fire upon our centre which began to tell
on our men around the heavy guns, and it was at this time
that the infantry, who were lying down, had been ordered to
advance, when the cavalry charges were being executed.
Speaking of the infantry advance, Malleson says : — ' The in-
fantry sprang to their feet, advanced a few yards, then poured
in a volley, and charged. The result was magical. The first
line of the enemy at once broke and fled in complete disorder
towards the second line, abandoning several of their guns.'
The charges of the cavalry brought the battle to a speedy
and successful issue, concerning which Sylvester says : — ' The
Horse Artillery gun having been disabled was more than Sir
Hugh Rose could bear : the Major- General, at the head of
Captain Need's troop of dragoons,3 dashed into the enemy's
left, while Prettejohn and McMahon, with Lieutenant Dew,
led their troops 4 against the enemy's right, and doubled them
up. This was a magnificent sight, and in a moment the
enemy's ranks were a mass of confusion : they were shaken
and disorganised, and commenced a disastrous retreat. They
were hurled back on the Betwa by the irresistible attack of
the dragoons.'5 The Nizam's troop of Hyderabad Cavalry
on our right also did good service in supporting Captain
Need's charge, and Sylvester says that before this charge
the same troop under Clarke had been ordered by Sir Hugh
Rose to charge the battery which had disabled Lieutenant
Crowe's gun, but that Clarke was thrice driven back by
1 Now Major-General Crowe, late Royal (Bombay) Artillery.
2 Malleson, vol. v. p. 113, etc., where 'enemy's right' is printed for 'enemy's left.'
3 The 'A' troop I4th Light Dragoons.
4 The ' H ' and ' G' troops I4th Light Dragoons. 5 Sylvester, p. 96, etc.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 291
showers of grape and volleys from the Velaitee1 matchlock-
men, losing some men and horses and receiving a wound him-
self. Stent, who was present as a non-commissioned officer
in the regiment, gives the following account of the charges of
the Fourteenth on this occasion 2 :—
' It was a glorious sight to see them thundering along,
headed by the General and Captain Prettejohn, the latter of
whom was bareheaded, and who fought and shouted like a
demon. One minute, and they were among the enemy, and
all that was to be seen was a confused mass of flashing swords
and bayonets, struggling men and horses, and hoarse shouts of
rage. From this seething, struggling mass our men emerged
victorious, for the result of the charge showed that an act of
daring and personal bravery on the part of a leader (an act
not often done — a Commander-in-Chief to lead a charge) will
sometimes change defeat into victory as it did in this case.
' The rebels were thoroughly routed in this charge, and
turned and fled ; were rallied, formed up again, to be again
charged and routed ; and yet again, only to undergo the same
infliction, losing all their guns, and finally bolting in the
greatest confusion, pursued by our men, who cut up great
numbers of them, stopping only at the river Betwa from sheer
exhaustion. Many of the enemy who escaped our swords
were drowned in attempting to cross the river ; the whole of
the ground passed over by our men was strewed with their
bodies, and at the lowest estimate it was calculated that 1 500
of them must have been slain, and no doubt the wounded were
at least as many more. Our cavalry and artillery bore the
brunt o{ this severe engagement, my regiment3 suffering the
most, from the nature of the conflict being a succession of
charges and hand-to-hand fights.'
We must now leave for a moment the routed first line of
1 The word Velait or Welait is Hindustani for 'foreign' — a Velaiter is a
foreigner. The Velaitees were native mercenaries, generally armed with matchlocks
and tulwars. They were the best fighting-men amongst the rebels, and were com-
posed of cut-throats, 'budmashes,' and first-class scoundrels. — (Sylvester.)
2 Scraps from my Sabretache, p. 215, etc. 3 I4th Light Dragoons.
292 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Tantia Topee, pursued by their victors, to glance at the move-
ments of those detachments of the ist Brigade under Brigadier
C. S. Stuart, C.B., to whom allusion has already been made,
and to show what an important effect their movements had on
the fortunes of the day. ' Brigadier Stuart had moved round
the hill into the plain on the right of the enemy, in order to
check a large body of them who were taking advantage of the
battle raging in front of the line to move off towards Jhansi.
Stuart attacked, defeated them, and drove them back, hotly
following them. So close indeed was the pursuit that they
had no time to re-form, but fled in confusion, leaving gun after
gun in the hands of the victors, and numbers of their men
dead or dying on the field.' l
This affair of the ist Brigade was most opportune, for had
this body of rebels not been cut off it is highly probable they
would have worked round to Jhansi, and made the position of
Colonel Scudamore's flying camps of cavalry very perilous.
Gallant Lieutenant Giles, i4th Light Dragoons, with 30 or 40 of his
conduct of T • -ill- fr i «i i • i • ' • i
Lieutenant troop, distinguished himself very highly in this pursuit, and cut
S'Sroop of rt UP a large number of the enemy ; but his force was too small
i4th Light and quite inadequate against the dense masses of matchlock-
Dragoons with * , . „,.
the ist Brigade, men that confronted him. The ground, too, was most unsuit-
able for cavalry and utterly impracticable for artillery, and the
infantry could not keep up from sheer fatigue after their long
march. The rebels sheltered themselves behind the adjacent
rocks and caused several casualties in Lieutenant Giles's
troop, killing i man, wounding 5, and placing 10 horses hors-
de-combat, so that, notwithstanding the dauntless courage and
gallantry exhibited by this officer, he could not do more than
content himself with cutting up outsiders. As it was, however,
250 of the rebels had been killed by Stuart's attack, and many
more wounded, besides which 6 guns, 2 elephants, some camels,
ammunition and treasure fell into his hands. Malleson says : —
'Tantia beheld in dismay the men of his first line rushing
helter-skelter towards him, followed by the three arms of the
British in hot pursuit ; but he had scarcely realised the fact
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 114.
1858] THE MTH (KING'S) HUSSARS 293
when another vision on his right flank came to add to his
anguish.' This vision was the rout of a large body of the
enemy, caused by the very successful flank movement executed
by Brigadier C. S. Stuart, and in which Lieutenant Giles, with
his small troop of the Fourteenth, played such a conspicuous
part. The second line of the rebel army was commanded by
Tantia Topee in person. That crafty leader had occupied a
selected position about 2 miles in rear of his first line, and
here he placed his second line and reserve upon rising ground,
with its front covered by jungle. Thus he was able to descry
in an instant the reverse that had happened to his first line.
Malleson says : — ' It had the effect of forcing upon him a prompt
decision : the day, he saw, was lost, but there was yet time
to save the second line and his remaining guns. The jungle
was dry and easily kindled : Tantia Topee at once set fire to
it, and under cover of the smoke and flames commenced a
retreat across the Betwa, hoping to place that river between
himself and the pursuers. His infantry and horsemen led the
retreat, his guns covered it. Right gallantly and skilfully
they did it, and he did succeed in crossing the Betwa with his
reserve and guns and some of the fugitives of the first line.'
When the first line of the rebels was routed, as we have
already described, the pursuit became general. Our cavalry and
artillery, with Prettejohn1 and Need2 at the head of the Four-
teenth, dashed at a gallop through the burning jungle, cutting
up hundreds of the rebels in their onward course, and determined
to capture every gun of the enemy that had opened fire upon
them. The flying enemy often rallied in a mass or 'gole,' and
many hand-to-hand fights between them and our cavalry took
place, as in the swamps about Dhar ; but the further the pursuit
continued the thinner and fewer these rallying masses became,
till at last little squares and groups, and then only single
fugitives, dotted the plain. The pursuit did not cease till
2 troops of the Fourteenth and a troop of the Nizam's Cavalry
1 Afterwards Major-General R. B. Prettejohn, C.B.
2 Afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Need, Lieutenant of the Yeomen
of the Guard.
294 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
had actually crossed the Betwa, and here they became exposed
to the heavy fire of the enemy, both in crossing the ford and
also in ascending the steep road on the opposite bank. The
rebels made great efforts to carry off their guns, elephants, and
Guns, stores, ammunition, but the greater part fell into our hands. Eighteen
and standards i i j i
captured from guns, 2 standards, and large stores or ammunition were cap-
tured, and after the capture of the last gun, an i8-pounder,
about a mile and a half on the other side of the Betwa, Sir
Hugh withdrew the cavalry from pursuit. They had been
marching and fighting incessantly for many hours, and both
men and horses were quite exhausted. Nine miles remained
to be traversed back to Jhansi, but the troops returned to camp
amply compensated at having achieved so brilliant a victory
over their vaunting foes. Malleson says 1500 rebels were
killed and wounded that day. The British losses were 81 men
and 29 horses, of which 15 men and 13 horses were killed.
The Fourteenth suffered in proportion more heavily than any
Casualties of other regiment or corps. Their losses were : killed, 5 men,
atethe°Betwiu IJ troop-horses ; wounded, 25 men, 16 troop-horses.
In Appendix B, pages 593-97, extracts from Sir Hugh
Rose's despatch, dated 3Oth April 1858, are inserted verbatim,
and in these the reader will find officially recorded the gallant
part taken by the regiment in this important victory over the
Peishwa's army. The names of three officers of the Fourteenth
— Captain Need, Captain Prettejohn, and Lieutenant Leith —
are brought to notice for their important services on this
occasion, as well as that of one non-commissioned officer,
Sergeant Gardiner, who also, on a former occasion at Dhar,
Lieutenant behaved so gallantly. Lieutenant Leith, who was in charge
of the ' A ' troop, led by Captain Need, performed an act of
bravery and devotion for which he was recommended by Sir
Hugh Rose for the Victoria Cross, and received that much-
coveted decoration subsequently.1 In that charge Need, who
was a great swordsman, dashed up rocks where no horse could
keep its footing, and was in great danger ; but Leith saw his
1 See Appendix B, page 598.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 295
perilous position and came to his captain's help at the right
time and saved his life. Need was not actually unhorsed, but
was almost surrounded by the enemy's infantry. His saddle,
and even his jacket, which was loose and large, was slashed
in several places, and his reins were cut.
The following copy of the telegram forwarded by Sir Hugh Telegram sent
Rose to the Government gives a very clear and concise account R^seirt0 u
of this battle, and is taken from Stent's Scraps from my £j£ ^"thebattie
Sabretache\ — 'This morning, at daybreak, the force under my of the Betwa.
orders fought a general action with the so-called Peishwa's
army, and, by the blessing of God, gained a complete victory.
The rebels are stated to have numbered from 20,000 to 25,000
men : they were under Tantia Topee, Nana Sahib's relative,
and their object was to relieve Jhansi. I did not discontinue
the siege or investment of Jhansi, consequently the force with
which I fought was extremely weak. The rebels, amongst
whom were the grenadier regiment and another regiment of
the Gwalior contingent, fought, except the cavalry, desperately ;
but I turned their left flank with artillery and cavalry, and after
making two stands they broke and fled, after defending them-
selves individually to the last. I pursued them to the river
Betwa, taking all their guns, eighteen in number, and an English
i8-pounder of the Gwalior contingent drawn by two elephants ;
an 8-inch mortar, and quantities of ammunition, including
shells, i8-pounder shot, ordnance park, and two elephants.
Two standards were also taken. The enemy tried to stop our
pursuit by setting the jungle on fire, but nothing could check
the ardour of the artillery and cavalry, who galloped in pursuit
across the country in flames. I cannot calculate at present the
enemy's loss in killed, but it must have been very great, as the
country is strewed with dead bodies, chiefly those of sepoys.
As I now shall be free from the attacks of a numerous attacking
army I hope to conclude speedily the siege of Jhansi.'
The remnant of the Peishwa's army, with Tantia at their
head, made their escape towards Calpee,1 and the victors
1 Kalpf (Malleson).
296 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
resumed their former positions round Jhansi the same evening.
During the time this battle had been raging the besieged
had redoubled their fire ; they manned the walls, poured down
volleys of musketry, shouting and yelling hideously, and seemed
to threaten a sortie. It seems incredible that no effectual
attempt was made by the garrison to come out and attack the
attenuated lines of besiegers, but perhaps they were deterred
by the increased vigour displayed by our batteries, and also
by a feigned attack which was purposely made by a body of
Major Gail troops under Major Gall, I4th Light Dragoons, and Lieutenant
feigrSdattack Lowrie, Royal Artillery, upon a distant part of the city wall,
durinlthe11 where a party of rebels did make some slight attempts at
battle of the a sortie, but were effectually driven back by a Q-pounder and
Betwa. . J . . P J r . .
howitzer, together with some native infantry and dragoons
acting under Major Gall.
Sir Hugh Rose determined to take advantage of the dis-
couragement which it was well known the defeat of the
relieving army would undoubtedly produce on the minds of
the Ranee and her garrison. Accordingly the siege was prose-
cuted with renewed vigour, and when it was known that the
breach in the city wall was just practicable, he determined to
sir Hugh's storm the place on 3rd April. His plan of attack, according
onajh°ansi,ta( to Malleson, was this : to make a false attack on the west
3rd April 1858. wau wjth a sma\\ detachment under Major Gall, i4th Light
Dragoons. As soon as the sound of his guns should be heard,
the main storming-party was to debouch from cover and enter
the breach, whilst on the right of it attempts should be made to
escalade the wall. His dispositions were as follows : —
i. The right attack, composed of the Madras and Bombay
Sappers, 3rd Bombay Europeans, and infantry of the Nizam's
Hyderabad Contingent, was divided into two columns and a
reserve : —
The right column under Lieutenant-Colonel Liddle, 3rd
Europeans; the left column under Captain Robinson,
3rd Europeans; the reserve under Brigadier C. Steuart,
C.B., 1 4th Light Dragoons.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 297
This attack was to attempt to gain the town by escalade.
2. The left attack, composed of the Royal Engineers, the
86th Foot, and the 25th Bombay Native Infantry, was similarly
divided into two columns and a reserve : —
The left column, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Lowth,
86th Regiment, was to storm the breach; the right
column, led by Major Stuart, 86th Regiment, to
escalade the rocket-tower and the low curtain immedi-
ately to the right of it. The reserve was commanded
by Brigadier C. S. Stuart.
At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd April, the storming- storming of
parties marched to the positions assigned them, to await there ^dTprii 1858.
the signal from Major Gall's party. No sooner was it given
than the stormers dashed to the front.
The left attack was successful, but on the right the escalad-
ing party suffered very heavily, and their ladders were too
short and too weak. Lieutenants Dick and Meiklejohn of
the Bombay Engineers, while nobly leading, were killed, and
Lieutenant Bonus of the same regiment was hurled down from
the wall struck in the face by a log or stone, Lieutenant Fox
of the Madras Sappers was shot in the neck on the wall; but at
length the stormers got a footing on the rampart, and owing to
an opportune rescue made by a party from the left attack under
Captain Brockman, who with some men of the 86th Regiment
took the defenders in flank and rear and drew them off, the
right attack was enabled to hold its own and to join the left
attack in dispersing the defenders, so that eventually, after
a sanguinary contest, the city and palace were successfully
captured. The resistance in the stables of the palace, as well
as in the apartments, was very determined, and severe con-
flicts ensued here and in some of the streets leading through
the city, where desultory fighting continued during the night
and following day, as well as in the suburbs. Whilst the
palace was being captured a body of rebels, about 400 in
number, driven from the city, took refuge on a hill to the west
of the fortress, where they were surrounded by our cavalry.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Major Gail
i?n°t™Ssuburbs
of jhansi.
Escape of the
jhansi,01
4th April 1858.
Pursuit of the
Fortress of
tyJSSh
5th April 1858.
On hearing of this Sir Hugh ordered a mixed force, under
command of Major Gall, i4th Light Dragoons, to storm the
position and capture the rebels. Major Gall, with his usual skill
and courage, took the position with the 24th Bombay Native
Infantry, and all the defenders were either killed or blown up,
with a loss of i officer and a few men of the 24th Bombay Native
Infantry. Another body of 1500 men held out in a suburb, but
these also were driven out with a loss of 300. Sir Hugh now
bethought himself to make plans for capturing the fortress, but
the Ranee saved him all trouble on that score. She had fled
there for safety when the palace was taken, but on the night
of the 4th of April, despairing of success, she evacuated the
fortress and fled to Calpee, intending to join Tantia Topee
there.1 She was reported to have escaped on horseback with
her child before her, and a drawn sword in her hand, accom-
panied by her few remaining followers and a cavalry escort of
sowars, along the Banda road. The following description of
the Ranee of Jhansi is from Stent : 'She was a very handsome
woman about 24 years of age, a perfect Amazon in bravery,
heading her troops, mounted like a man — just the sort of dare-
devil woman that soldiers admire. She was finally killed,
fighting against us at Gwalior.'2 It is believed she was wounded
by a carbine bullet in the fighting at Morar, June 1858, and was
carried to the rear, where she expired, and was burned accord-
ing to the Hindoo custom. At the time of her death she
was attired as a cavalry soldier.3
As soon as the flight of the Ranee was known, a cavalry
force was sent in pursuit, but she had got too great a start and
made good her escape to Calpee. Lieutenant Dowker with
some sowars went in hot pursuit, and actually got near
her at one time, but he was wounded by her escort whom
he engaged, killing a large number of them and capturing
the Ranee's tent. Sir Hugh's force occupied the fortress on
5th April. Our losses in and around Jhansi, including the
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 1 1 5 et seq.
3 Sylvester, p. 183.
2 Scraps from my Sabretache.
1858] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 299
action fought on ist April, amounted to 343 killed and Losses at
wounded, of whom 36 were officers. The enemy's loss was
computed at 5000 : 1000 bodies were actually burned or buried
in Jhansi itself.1
During the last few days of the siege, and for some time Major Gail's
after the capture of Jhansi, Major Gall, i4th Light Dragoons, outpost'at
had been given the command of ' The North Outpost,' with ajhansi<
force under him of 2 and sometimes 4 pieces of ordnance,
a squadron of the Fourteenth, and about 200 native infantry.
He had constantly to move out of camp to his right or to his
front, either to support the picquets near or to attack the enemy
in the city lying to his front, and to prevent them from escaping.
During the day of the battle of the Betwa, on ist April, he was
employed with this force in making an attack on the city wall,
and preventing an expected sortie of the garrison.
On the day the city was stormed, 3rd April, he made the
feigned attack on the bastion of the north-east wall, so as
to divert attention from the real attack on the south-east,
and thus gave the signal to the storming-party to enter the
breach.
On the 5th April, taking 150 of his infantry, Gall moved out Desultory
of camp, and swept the ground along the city walls on the north jfanSgbyU
side. Lieutenant Gowan, i4th Light Dragoons, with a small {
party of his men was also employed on the same duty. These Nizam's
parties sabred or shot down a large number of fugitive rebels who
had secreted themselves in the cornfields and gardens about,
not having been able to escape through the cavalry picquets
when the city was taken. Most of the cavalry were thus em-
ployed on the day after the Ranee escaped, when the fort was
evacuated. By this means six or seven hundred of the enemy
are said to have been cut up or shot. Cornet Beamish, i4th
Light Dragoons, accounted for about 300 in this way with his
party of dragoons, and a very large number, about 220, were
disposed of by the Hyderabad Cavalry under Captain Abbott.
Major Gall's infantry killed 100, Lieutenant Gowan's men, 30.
1 Malleson.
300 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
After the fall of Jhansi, Sir Hugh Rose remained there
nearly 19 days, partly to rest his troops and partly to make the
necessary preparations for another campaign. His next object
Caipee. was to march on Calpee : this was the arsenal of the rebels.
Rao Sahib, the nephew of Nana Sahib, was there, with large
supplies of artillery and warlike stores, and a numerous garrison.
Calpee was situated on the river Jumna, 102 miles north-east
of Jhansi, and 46 miles south-west of Cawnpore.1
Lieut. -Colonel On the night of the 22nd April a column under Major,
marches°from now Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, 1 4th Light Dragoons,
consisting of 3 troops (B, C, and E) i4th Light Dragoons, Light-
22nd April foot's battery of artillery, some companies of 3rd Europeans,
some companies of 25th Native Infantry, and some Hyderabad
Cavalry, was sent off from Jhansi to a place on the Calpee road.
Arrives at This force reached Pooch, 14 miles from Koonch, on ist May.
ist May. On 25th April, at midnight, Sir Hugh left Jhansi for
Koonch with the ist Brigade, leaving orders for the 2nd
Brigade to follow in two days. Major Orr with the bulk of
the Hyderabad Contingent troops had been sent previously to
cut off some rebels from crossing the Betwa and so doubling
back southwards, and he too was to march on Koonch. On
ist May Sir Hugh with the ist Brigade came up to Pooch,
and joined Lieutenant-Colonel Gall's column, and by the 5th
The two May Sir Hugh was joined by his 2nd Brigade, now augmented
brigades arrive , •• • i r i T T • 1 i i >r>i i 1 /•
at Pooch and by the arrival of the 7 ist Highlanders. I he whole force now
LohSi!° marched on Lohari, 10 miles nearer to Koonch, but on arrival
there it was ascertained that the rebels had possession of the
Lieut. -Colonel fort. Lieutenant- Colonel Gall with his column was detached
the fort of to take it. This he successfully achieved after a stiff fight
c^tureJ^ and some loss. The 3rd Europeans and the 25th Native
5th May 1858. Infantry had severe hand-to-hand fights, but the whole garrison
was destroyed and the fort captured. Lieutenant -Colonel
Gall and 4 other officers were wounded, and we lost i man
killed and 13 wounded. One brass gun was captured in the fort.
Lieutenant- Colonel Gall himself personally led the stormers,
1 Malleson.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 301
and was afterwards highly complimented by the Major-General
for the able manner in which he had conducted the capture.1
After the flight from Jhansi, Tantia Topee and the Ranee
of Jhansi had both escaped to Calpee. Here Rao Sahib, at the
Ranee's request, reviewed the whole of his army, and then
placed Tantia Topee in command of it, and ordered him to
take it forward at once against the British. Tantia accordingly
proceeded to Koonch on the Jhansi road, 42 miles from
Calpee, and there entrenched himself in a strong position
covered by woods and gardens, with temples at intervals, and
surrounded by a strong wall. Meanwhile, as we have seen,
the main body of the Central India Field Force and Hyderabad
Contingent Force was advancing on Koonch under Major-
General Sir Hugh Rose to confront the rebels. The Major-
General had decided to make a flank march, and so to turn the
enemy's position by attacking him in flank instead of making
the usual frontal attack so dear to Asiatics. Accordingly on
6th May he broke up his camp and proceeded towards Koonch,
so as to gain a position facing the unfortified side of the
town, and hoping thus to cut off the enemy's line of retreat in
the direction of Calpee.2 On 7th May Sir Hugh's force came Battle of
in sight of Koonch by 7 A.M., having marched 14 miles. Here ^h°M?y 1858.
he halted and drew up his line 2 miles distant from the town :
the ist Brigade formed on the left, the 2nd Brigade were in the
centre, and the Hyderabad troops, under Major Orr, were on
the right. Preparatory to the attack the troops were served
out with a dram of grog and some biscuit. At 8 A.M. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Gall was sent forward with some cavalry to Lieut. -Colonel
reconnoitre the wood, gardens, and temples, and his advance reconnoitre,
was covered by artillery fire. At the same time the siege-guns
were moved to a position whence they could effectually play
upon the town.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gall soon returned and reported that
1 See Appendix B, p. 597.
2 Malleson, vol. v. p. 120. In Sir Hugh Rose's despatch the date of the battle at
Koonch is 7th May. Malleson's History has 6th May. Sylvester, who was present,
confirms Sir Hugh's as the correct date.
302
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Sir Hugh
Rose's plan of
attack.
Captains
Thompson's
and Gordon's
troops of
1 4th Light
Dragoons^
engaged.
the enemy had retreated through the wood nearer to the town,
that they had cavalry in their rear, that the fire of the siege-
guns had driven the rebels from the right of the wood into the
town, but that some outworks were still held by them. The
Major-General determined to clear the wood and the outworks
with his infantry, and then to storm the town. This was well
and successfully carried out, and the fort was occupied by the
men of the ist Brigade, led by Sir Hugh, the fighting and
skirmishing in the wood, however, causing several casualties.
The enemy were ultimately driven from the wood, gardens,
and outworks, through the town, out of the town, and along
the plain on the road leading towards Calpee. This was on
the north side. Steuart with the 2nd Brigade, arriving from
the west and occupying the centre of the line, had attacked a
body of rebel infantry strongly posted to his front, directly in
his intended line of advance. He met with a very determined
resistance, and it was not till a body of the ist Brigade came
to his assistance by a well-delivered flank attack on the rebels
that he was enabled to disperse them. In this attack of the
2nd Brigade the 2 troops of the i4th Light Dragoons, under
Captains Thompson and Gordon, took a prominent part, and at
the critical moment Captain Gordon led his troop forward and
made a gallant charge against a mass of the enemy, whom he
broke and cut up, for which he was specially mentioned by
Sir Hugh Rose in his despatch of the 24th May i&5&.1 Steuart
then endeavoured, but ineffectually, to cut off the rebels from
their line of retreat, but instead of working on through the
town as he had been expected to do, his Horse Artillery and
Cavalry moved round to the south side of it and joined in the
general pursuit. Major Orr, with the Nizam's troops, arriving
from the south, had acted on the right of the line in the attack,
and also joined in the attempt to cut off the fugitives in the
direction of Calpee. The action was over in about an hour, but
the heat of the sun was so terrific that the infantry were not in
a fit state to be sent in pursuit. The fugitives at once com-
menced a well-organised and orderly retreat. The greater
1 See Appendix B, p. 587.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 303
part of the cavalry, including the Fourteenth and some of the Pursuit at
Hyderabad Cavalry, together with the Horse Artillery and
light field guns, were launched forth in hot pursuit, the guns
pouring volleys of grape on the retiring masses. Malleson
says : — ' The manner in which the rebels conducted their
retreat could not be surpassed. They well remembered the
lessons they had learned from their European officers. There
was no hurry, no disorder, no rushing to the rear ; all was
orderly as on a field-day. Their skirmishers fired, then ran
behind the relieving men and loaded, the relieving men then
fired and ran back in their turn.' l
Captain William McMahon's squadron and Captain Blyth's Three
troop of the Fourteenth charged the enemy's skirmishers Fourteenth
magnificently. The former officer had to lead his men over c^^c the
a piece of very heavy ploughed land under a heavy fire :
several of his men and horses were killed and a large number
of saddles emptied. When the squadron got to close quarters
the enemy fought fiercely. After firing they used their bayonets
and native knives, with which they cut and slashed desperately
at our men and horses. Captain McMahon received 3 sabre
wounds, but continued to lead his squadron through the
pursuit. These 3 troops of the Fourteenth cut up almost
to a man the rearguard, which the enemy had thrown out in
skirmishing order. Captain Blyth charged on another occasion
and captured a gun under a very heavy fire ; and Captain Captain
Prettejohn, by Sir Hugh's personal order, gallantly led a troop charge.0 '
of the Fourteenth against an enfilading line of the enemy's
skirmishers, also under a very heavy fire — ' an order,' says
Malleson, ' carried out by that most daring officer with great
gallantry and success.'
This pursuit was continued up to 7 miles from Koonch
in the burning sun, and the men and horses suffered intensely
from the exposure. Even the Major-General was so much
overcome at one time by the heat that he had to dismount
and seek shade, where Dr. Vaughan attended him, but he sub-
sequently resumed his duties in the pursuit.2 Sylvester, who
1 Vol. v. p. 124. a Sylvester.
304
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Casualties of
1 4th Light
Dragoons at
Koonch.
Sunstroke.'
was present on the occasion, says : ' The heat was terrible ;
I never recollect suffering so much from thirst, and there was
little water to be had. The Fourteenth were never better than
on this day ; they charged like a body of demons straight into
the huge masses of revolted Sepoys until Scudamore screamed
"Halt! it is perfect madness." I counted 34 dead Sepoys in
one spot. The enemy got away with an i8-pounder and a
24-pounder gun along the Jaloun road to Calpee.' The rebels
never gave in till nearly all their guns were captured, and they
then crowded along the road a helpless mass of fugitives.
At length our tired troops were recalled from pursuit and
brought back to bivouac at Koonch, having been 16 hours
marching, fighting, and in pursuit. It was 8 o'clock before the
cavalry returned in the evening. We captured 9 guns and a
large quantity of ammunition. The enemy lost about 600 men
in the action and pursuit. Our losses were 3 officers and
59 men killed and wounded, besides a large number struck
down by the sun.1
The Fourteenth lost heavily : —
'5 Men.
.3 Troop-horses.
'Captain McMahon, severely. (Sabre-cuts
on leg and right hand.)
17 Men.
6 Troop-horses.
Missing 4 Troop-horses.
In addition to these killed and wounded, the i4th Light
Dragoons had 2 officers (Captain Need and Lieutenant
Travers) and 16 men struck down by the sun, of whom 2 men
died subsequently. In his despatch about Koonch,2 Sir Hugh
Rose brings the gallant services of the regiment into very
prominent notice, and specially mentions the following officers
for the favourable consideration of the Commander-in-Chief :
Captain Gordon, Captain McMahon, Captain Prettejohn,
Captain Todd (Staff Officer to Brigadier Steuart, C.B.), and
Captain Blyth.
1 Malleson. 2 See Appendix B, p. 585 et seq.
Killed
Wounded
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The Ranee of Jhansi, present during the action, had fled
from Koonch to Calpee, attended by her cowardly horsemen,
who turned tail, having never faced us at all ; and Tantia Topee,
always foremost in flight, escaped to a place near Jaloun, where
his parents dwelt.1 Our men had nothing to eat till 8 P.M.
at night, except what they carried in their haversacks.
The 8th of May was a day of rest for both brigades. Their
tents were pitched at daylight, and men and horses pulled them-
selves together for the coming march on Calpee. The men of
the Fourteenth were in a splendid state of physique at this time,
being well inured to the climate, so they suffered less than the
other Europeans, of whom the newly arrived 7ist Highlanders
lost more men by sunstroke than any other corps present, but
even in the Fourteenth there were nearly 150 men, including
sick and wounded, belonging to the left wing only, under
medical treatment on the day after the battle of Koonch.
At 2 A.M. on Qth May the Major-General moved off with March on
the ist Brigade, followed next day by the 2nd Brigade.
The march to Calpee was a most trying one, owing to the
intense heat and the want of water. The rebels had thrown
up elaborate fortifications along the direct road leading from
Koonch to Calpee, hoping to make short work of us as
we passed ; but Sir Hugh got timely notice from spies, and
from reports brought in by Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, i4th
Light Dragoons. As a result of his reconnaissance it was
ascertained that the enemy was entrenched in large numbers
to our left. Sir Hugh took a circuitous route, and moved
towards Golowlee, on the right bank of the Jumna, 6 miles
from Calpee, avoiding the direct road, and thus outflanking the
enemy, who found himself completely outwitted and his great
defences on the main road turned and useless.2
There was another advantage too in this plan of campaign,
for Sir Hugh had received an intimation that a column under
Colonel G. V. Maxwell, with the 88th Foot and other details,
would co-operate with him, and had already reached the left
1 Malleson. - Sylvester.
U
3o6 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Lieut. -Colonel bank of the Jumna opposite Golowlee. On the i3th May,
assumes owing to the illness of Brigadier C. Steuart, C.B., i4th Light
Dragoons, the command of the 2nd Brigade devolved for a
2nd Brigade. tjme UpOn Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, 7ist Highland Light
Infantry. On the i5th, Sir Hugh with the ist Brigade reached
Golowlee, and established communication with Colonel Maxwell's
column on the opposite bank by means of pontoons, as no boats
could be found. On the i6th, Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell
brought up the 2nd Brigade, which had been menaced by the
enemy on the march from Etora. This brigade encamped near
Golowlee, on the left flank of Major Orr's Hyderabad Force,
and opposite the village of Diapora. The ist Brigade had
also been harassed by large bodies of the rebels on their last
day's march to Golowlee, when their rearguard was attacked
Enemy attacks by cavalry. On the 1 6th, after the 2nd Brigade had reached
of^nd^Bn^ade camp, the rearguard was attacked ; it was commanded by
near Golowlee. MajQr ForbeS) 3rd Bombay Cavalry, who had with him 170 of
his own sowars, a weak troop of the Fourteenth under Lieu-
tenant Beamish, 2 guns Royal Artillery, 200 Irregular Horse,
a company of 3rd Bombay Europeans, a company of Bombay
Sappers, and 116 men of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry,
under Lieutenant Estridge. It seems that 6000 of the
enemy, who had occupied the village of Etora as soon as
the brigade moved out, had cut off some of our baggage in
rear. They followed up to within 600 yards of camp, and
fired on our men with artillery shots and volleys of musketry,
whilst their cavalry seemed threatening a charge. We lost
some men of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry and of the
3rd Bombay Cavalry, whilst an artilleryman had his pouch
shot off his belt, and one of the Fourteenth had his turban
shot off, — the latter was replaced with the most perfect non-
chalance ! Major Forbes handled his force most skilfully, and,
notwithstanding his critical position, brought it safely into
camp. The whole force was eventually turned out under the
Major-General, and desultory firing went on till dark, when the
enemy, tired out like ourselves, gradually ceased firing and left
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 307
us quiet.1 The position of the 2nd Brigade camp was 6 miles
from the Jumna, and was much exposed to attacks from the
enemy ; the ist Brigade was encamped within a mile of the
river's bank nearer Golowlee. There was a village called
Muttra near the camp of the 2nd Brigade, and it was here that
the enemy was constantly endeavouring to attack us and to
get round the left rear of the position. The determined fire
of Captain Field's battery, however, kept him at a respectful
distance, though his round-shot would occasionally roll in
among the tents of the Fourteenth, and in an attack made by
the rebels on the i7th May several troops of the Fourteenth,
with infantry and artillery, had to be employed to drive them
off and to keep up connection between the 2nd Brigade and
village of Muttra, which lay to our left.2 There were incessant
skirmishes going on and threatened attacks by the enemy on
the 1 8th, iQth, and 2Oth May. The heat of the sun was terrific,
and in consequence our men suffered dreadfully from the ex-
posure and harassing work, for the enemy knowing this persisted
in making attacks. A mortar battery in front of the ist Brigade
was established by the iQth, and on the 2oth, Colonel Maxwell,
from the other side of the Jumna, sent over 2 companies of the
88th Regiment and 120 Sikhs to reinforce Sir Hugh. By the
2 ist, Maxwell's batteries opened on the town of Calpee. There
was a move forward of all the camps on 1 9th, after which both
brigades and the Nizam's troops rested on the right bank of
the river Jumna, encamped one behind the other, with Golowlee
in front, and a mile of ravines lying between them and the
river bed.8 In the forthcoming attack on Calpee, Sir Hugh
intended Maxwell to shell the fort and city, whilst he would
clear the ravines and other obstacles and attack the fort on the
left side.4 The left of the British force nearly touched the road Fortress of
running from Calpee to Banda. Malleson describes the fortress a pee<
1 The above account is from Sylvester's Recollections of the Campaign in Maliva
and Central India under Major- General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B., p. 146, etc.
2 Appendix B, p. 601 et seq, (Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell's report).
8 Sylvester. 4 Malleson.
3o8 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
of Calpee as being protected by five lines of defence to its
front, and by the river Jumna to its rear. These five were —
i st. A series of entrenchments with flank defence ;
2nd. 84 temples of solid masonry, with walls round them
of the same ;
3rd. An outwork of ravines ;
4th. City of Calpee ;
5th. A second chain of ravines ;
and lastly came the fort itself, built on a precipitous rock.
The rebels at Calpee were commanded by the Nawab of
Banda, a fugitive from the defeat inflicted on him by General
Whitlock at Banda, and he was aided by the brave Ranee of
Jhansi, driven from Koonch. They had a large number of
sepoys as well as 2000 horsemen from Banda, besides guns
and numerous followers.
It would be difficult to describe all the suffering our men
and horses went through at this period of the campaign,
especially on the march from Koonch, and in the operations
about Calpee, both from the fierceness of the sun and the great
scarcity of water, which prevailed until the camps were moved
within reach of the Jumna. The sick-list was enormous, and
the cases of sunstroke which occurred incessantly had a most
depressing effect on the whole force. A foraging-party of 33
men belonging to the Fourteenth left camp one day, and of
this number only 19 returned on their saddles. Of the infantry,
the 7ist Highlanders suffered most. They had only recently
come to India, before which they had been in the Crimea. The
rebels well knew how fatal the exposure to the sun's rays was to
Europeans, and so they invariably arranged their fights to take
Defeat of the place at the hottest time of the day. On the 22nd May, the
iowlee, date of the capture of Calpee, the enemy commenced the attack
May ky marching in masses along the Banda road about 10 A.M. and
threatening the British left near Golowlee. Another body
opened fire at the same time against our centre.1 According
to Sylvester,2 the disposition of the British forces was as
follows : —
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 127 et seq. 2 P. 154 et seq.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 309
Brigadier C. S. Stuart, commanding ist Brigade, posted
himself by 8 A.M. at the mortar battery in front of the camps,
taking with him half Woolcombe's battery and a party of the
3rd European Regiment. On his right, extended as a line of
skirmishers reaching along the ravines to the Jumna, was the
86th Regiment under Colonel Lowth; on the left of the Brigadier
was a wing of the 25th Native Infantry ; in rear as a support
was a troop of the Fourteenth, as well as a troop of the 3rd
Bombay Light Cavalry. Towards the centre of the line was
Colonel Robertson, with the other wing of his corps (the 25th
Bombay Native Infantry), the remaining half of Woolcombe's
battery under Lieutenant Strutt, and the 2ist company Royal
Engineers ; on the left centre Lightfoot's troop of Horse
Artillery, and 2 troops of the Fourteenth, our heavy guns, the
Royal Artillery field battery, 7ist Highlanders, and main
body of the 3rd Europeans. On the extreme left were the
Hyderabad Contingent force, Maxwell's camel-corps riflemen
and Sikhs. Here, too, as the ground was more suitable for
cavalry than on our right, was a squadron of the Fourteenth
under Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, and 3rd Hyderabad Cavalry
under Captain Abbott.
Such was the disposition of Sir Hugh Rose's little army
when the enemy commenced their attack, as already stated
above. By 9 A.M. our vedettes began to fire and fall back, but
owing to the nature of the ground, especially in the direction
of the ravines, a good half of the approaching rebels came on
without being visible to us. The mass of their cavalry
and artillery were on the right of their line, the ravines being
impracticable to their left. Our infantry began to advance,
and our guns opened fire at the same time.
The enemy's attack on our left was only intended as a feint.
It was led by the Nawab of Banda and Rao Sahib, the nephew
of the Nana. It proved, however, in the end serious. It was
pushed well home, and our left became heavily engaged. Sir
Hugh, notwithstanding, being fully persuaded in his own
mind of the real intention of the enemy, did not move a man
from his right, and his forecast was correct. Suddenly, as if
3io HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
by magic, the whole line of ravines became lighted up by a
mass of fire, both artillery and musketry, which was brought
to bear with overwhelming force on the British right. As
Malleson says : ' The suddenness of the attack, the superior
numbers of those making it, and the terrible heat of the day,
gave the rebels a great advantage.' The sun had struck down
an unusual number of Europeans, and some of our men's
Enfield rifles having become clogged by constant use in all
weathers, were difficult to load, so that at one time things
looked very critical when the enemy, starting up in great
numbers from the ravines, pressed forward with loud yells
and caused the British to fall back to the position where our
light field-guns and mortar battery were posted. It was here
that Brigadier Stuart made a gallant stand ; himself dismounted,
and standing by the guns, he bade the gunners defend them
with their lives.1 The 86th Regiment and 25th Native Infantry
in a thin extended line made a good resistance, and disputed
the advance step by step; 'still,' says Malleson, 'the rebels
pressed on, and it seemed as though from their very numbers
they must prevail, when Sir Hugh, to whom news of the
attack had been conveyed, brought up the camel-corps, which
had opportunely crossed the river that very morning, at their
best pace ; then, dismounting the men, and leading them for-
ward himself at the double, charged the advancing foe, who
was then within a few yards of the British guns. For a moment
the enemy stood, but only for a moment. A shout, a dash
forward from our whole line, and they went headlong into the
ravines below. Not only was the attack on our right repulsed,
but the battle was won. The attack on our left collapsed
when it was seen that that on the right had failed, and our
guns, gaining the rebels' flank, inflicted great loss on them as
they fled. Sir Hugh followed them up so closely that he cut
off a number of them from Calpee. The fire from Maxwell's
batteries made those who reached that fort feel that it was no
secure place of refuge. They evacuated it accordingly. The
1 Malleson.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 311
main bulk of the enemy, pursued by the Horse Artillery and
cavalry, lost their formation and dispersed, losing all their
guns and baggage. Even the Ranee of Jhansi, who fled with
them, was compelled to sleep under a tree ! ' The numbers
of the defeated army are computed by an eye-witness1 as
being ' ten times our number.'
Next morning Sir Hugh marched into Calpee. The i st Caipee taken
Brigade under Brigadier C. S. Stuart went through the 2\rd May "
ravines, following the course of the Jumna, whilst Sir Hugh I8s8-
led the 2nd Brigade himself along the Calpee road, and
Colonel Maxwell's batteries shelled the fort and villages in
front. There was, however, no resistance offered, and both
brigades entered the town and fort, whence the rebels had
fled, leaving their great arsenal replete with all the munitions
of war entirely in our hands.2
Lieutenant-Colonel Gall with all the available men of Pursuit by
the Fourteenth, Horse Artillery, and Hyderabad Cavalry oS? with °'
was immediately sent in pursuit, and, as related in Sir Hugh
Rose's despatch of 22nd June 1858, extracts of which are
printed in Appendix B,3 this duty was most ably carried out.
The enemy was pursued as far and as closely as possible :
the whole of his guns and 6 elephants were captured, and
large numbers of the rebel sepoys, especially the Sind Velai-
tees and mercenaries of the Nawab of Banda, were cut up by
the Fourteenth and the Nizam's Cavalry.
In Sir Hugh Rose's despatch of i3th October 1858, the Regiment
. r 111 • ,1 • *J J mentioned in
services performed by the regiment, the privations under- despatches,
gone from exposure to the sun, want of water, and scarcity of ^oneiGaii.
forage, are fully recorded, and Lieutenant-Colonel Gall's name
is specially brought to notice for his gallant conduct in the
pursuit of the rebels after their defeat at Golowlee and Calpee,
in which 5 troops of the Fourteenth took part. In this pursuit Charges made
the cavalry, who had been 1 3 hours in the saddle, pursued Fourteenth
8 miles on the Jhansi road. The names of Captain Barrett,
1 Dr. Lowe, author of Central India During the Rebellion of 1857-58.
2 Malleson, vol. v. p. 130. 3 See p. 600 et seq.
3i2 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Captain Need, Lieutenant Giles, Surgeon Stewart, Acting
Regimental Sergeant- Major Clark, and Private Winton of
1 B ' troop were specially mentioned by Lieutenant-Colonel
Gall in his report of the 25th May as having performed
gallant services on the same occasion. Captain Need led a
charge against the rear of an infantry column, in which the
Fourteenth captured 3 guns and cut down 200 rebels. On
this occasion Lieutenants Giles and Beamish used their
revolvers with great effect. A charge led by Lieutenant-
Colonel Gall with Captain Barrett, i4th Light Dragoons,
and Captain Abbott, Nizam's Cavalry, at the head of their
respective troops, went straight into a line of the retiring
enemy and cut up about 300 rebels, losing only 2 men
wounded, with 3 horses killed and wounded, and also captured
Flight of the 4 elephants.1 The Ranee and the Nawab of Banda both made
Nawlbof a precipitate flight from Calpee, at midnight, after the battle.
It was said that a shell from Maxwell's battery burst in the
Ranee's room and killed two of her attendants, which some-
what hastened her departure.2 Subsequently, on ist June, she
was in the vicinity of Gwalior when the Maharajah's troops
deserted him, and, after his flight to Agra, took possession
of the city and fort of Gwalior together with Rao Sahib and
Tantia Topee.
Lieut. -Colonel On the 25th May, Sir Hugh despatched a 'pursuing
'pursuing13 column,' in consequence of the information brought by Lieu-
t0 tenant-Colonel Gall on his return from the pursuit, that he
The left wing was certain a very large body of rebels had retreated along
Of I4th Light J / 1 / 1 IT J-
Dragoons the J aloun road to reach a ford across the Jumna, heading
to tn^ north. With this column a troop of the Fourteenth
was despatched at first, and shortly afterwards, on the 2 9th
May, 2 squadrons of the Fourteenth and a wing of the
86th Regiment followed from Calpee as reinforcements.3
Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson reported soon after that there
was no doubt the main body of the Calpee rebels had taken
the road to Gwalior, and the ist Brigade under Brigadier
1 See Appendix B, pp. 602, 603. 2 Sylvester. 3 Ibid.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 313
Stuart set off on the ist Tune in hot haste after them : The ist and
• i i • i • i i /~v t. 2n<* Brigades
2 troops of the Fourteenth went with this brigade. Un the march on
6th June the Major-General himself started for the sameGwahor-
destination, with a part of the 2nd Brigade, in which were
2 more troops of the Fourteenth. Thus the whole of the
Fourteenth once more set out on the march for further
fighting and campaigning in the very hottest time of the
whole year, and as the rains were nearly due, every endeavour
would have to be made to reach Gwalior before they regularly
set in.
This march of the Central India Field Force on Gwalior
was mostly carried out at night, to avoid the terrific heat of
the day. The men usually left camp at 1 1 P.M., reaching their
camping-ground by sunrise. Brigadier-General R. Napier,
C.B., arrived from Lucknow about the i4th June, and assumed
command of the 2nd Brigade. Notwithstanding the great heat,2 c-B-
ir 11 • commands
Sir Hugh Rose made forced marches, and reached the vicinity 2nd Brigade.
of Morar cantonments by i6th June. Here the rebels were
ready to receive us in force, but, tired though his men were, the
Major- General, with his usual dash, engaged them, and took
the cantonments after some severe fighting. He first recon- capture of
noitred the position carefully, and ascertained the enemy's JJ^JJJ cf
strength, then decided to attack. The Fourteenth and Nizam's June l858.
Cavalry were placed on either flank, guns and infantry in the
centre; the 2nd Brigade supported, the ist was in front. Sir
Hugh moved somewhat to his right and turned the enemy's left.
The enemy being taken thus unexpectedly, gave way on all
sides, but a considerable number took shelter in a dry nullah
with ravines, in rear of the cantonments and a village adjoin-
ing, and here the 7 ist Highland Light Infantry, under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Campbell, lost an officer and several men in
clearing out the rebels. The enemy was eventually driven by charges of
our men right through the cantonments, and the rout w
completed by a very successful charge of a wing of the Morar-
1 See despatch of I3th October 1858, p. 603 et seq.
3 It was 130° Fahrenheit in the shade at times.
314 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Fourteenth led by Captain P. S. Thompson. He caught
the fugitives in the plains and cut up a large number of
them. One troop of the Fourteenth under Lieutenant Gowan
also charged a body of rebels as they fled from the ravines,
and destroyed a considerable number.1
On the 1 7th, Brigadier Smith, coming from Rajputana
with a column to join the Central India Field Force round
Gwalior, had arrived near Kota-ke-Serai, 5 miles to the south-
east of Gwalior, and had been fighting all day with strong
bodies of the rebel infantry. He had reported his need of
assistance, and Sir Hugh sent off immediately, as a reinforce-
ment, the 25th Bombay Native Infantry, 4 guns of artillery,
and 3 troops of the Fourteenth, all under command of Colonel
Robertson.
Death of the During a cavalry charge made by a squadron of the 8th
(King's Royal Irish) Hussars belonging to Brigadier Smith's
column, which was led by Colonel Hicks and Captain Heneage
of the 8th Hussars, the Ranee of Jhansi met her death. She
was slain by a trooper, her horse having fallen, and he being
quite ignorant of her rank or sex. She was dressed as a cavalry
soldier. Her body was picked up and burned that night by
some of her devoted followers, in accordance with the Hindoo
custom. On the following day, i8th June, Sir Hugh started
with the ist Brigade from Morar cantonments (which were left
in charge of Brigadier-General Napier and the 2nd Brigade),
and marched in the afternoon to join Brigadier Smith. It was
a long, circuitous march, very trying, especially to the infantry,
who knocked up in considerable numbers. At night they
bivouacked on the Morar river, and in the morning Scindiah
had arrived from Agra to witness the result of that day's
fighting, which was destined to restore to him his lost princi-
pality with the city and fort of Gwalior. After an early recon-
naissance, Sir Hugh Rose decided to attack as speedily as
possible. During the whole of the previous day, the i8th, the
1 Brigadier-General R. Napier, C.B., mentions in his report (see Appendix B,
p. 607) the gallant part taken on this occasion by the right wing of the Fourteenth.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 315
enemy's guns, posted on a ridge to the left of Brigadier Smith's
camp, had been pounding our troops. A canal lay between
the two forces, and this had to be bridged over by us. This
duty was performed with alacrity by the Madras sappers and
miners, whilst all the time the enemy's battery on the ridge
kept up a heavy fire on the working parties, and masses of
their infantry were seen moving to take up positions from
which they could act with the best advantage to oppose our
advance. Sir Hugh lost no time in sending his infantry, 86th
and 95th British Regiments, as well as the loth and 25th
Bombay Regiments, across the canal to seize the ridge and
attack both flanks of the opposing rebel infantry. He directed
Brigadier Smith to be ready to attack the enemy's positions at
the Phool Bagh1 and beyond it with a troop of Horse Artillery
and a squadron of the Fourteenth, whilst he sent a light field
battery, escorted by 2 troops of the Fourteenth, to the heights
as a covering party for his advanced line, intending these
guns to reply to the enemy's batteries in position in front of
Gwalior.2
The infantry attack was admirably carried out. Several of
the enemy's guns were taken in position, and turned on them-
selves by the men of the 86th and 95th Regiments, whilst the
Bombay Regiments also captured some guns. ' The day was
won,' says Malleson ; ' the heights were gained, Gwalior lay, as
it were, at the feet of the British.' To their right, looking down
from the heights above across the plain, lay the Phoolbagh
and the old city, surmounted by the fort ; to their left lay the
Lushkar (literally ' encampment,' but really the ' New City '),
with the Maharajah's palace, and its spacious streets and
houses. On the plain were visible the enemy, who had been
driven from the heights, endeavouring to seek refuge in one or
other of the fortified places or walled enclosures at hand. Sir
Hugh at once ordered a general advance. The ist Bombay
Lancers were sent round the rear of the heights by a circuitous
1 ' Flower-garden.' A garden and palace at the foot of the fort.
2 See Appendix B, pp. 605, 606.
316 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
road, and were thence to make an attack on the New City (the
Lushkar). The $rd Bombay troop of Horse Artillery and
a squadron of the Fourteenth protected the right flank of
the troops attacking the grand parade, and also turned the
enemy's left. The 86th Regiment advanced on the left, the
95th on the right. The rebels appeared paralysed. It is true
their guns replied, but their infantry fell back. The charge of
the Bombay Lancers added to their dismay, after which our
infantry came up and completed the capture of the Lushkar.
Meanwhile, on the right, Brigadier Smith had taken the
Phoolbagh, killing large numbers of the rebels, and, as a
considerable body of them, including some cavalry, fled towards
the British Residency, which lay about 8 miles from Gwalior
in the direction of Agra, he launched forth after them his
cavalry and guns in pursuit, which was carried on till long after
dark, inflicting great loss on the fugitives, and capturing most
of their guns. Brigadier Smith speaks very highly of the
steadiness with which the 2 troops of the Fourteenth, escorting
the 3rd troop Bombay Horse Artillery, stood the enemy's
artillery fire of ' shot and shell, and of the ardour with which
they afterwards fell on the guns and the retreating enemy.' l
Sylvester says : — ' The enemy was taking away a large number
of guns and ammunition wagons, but Brigadier Smith with the
mounted part of his brigade gave pursuit, overtook, fought,
and captured several guns, and only allowed the remnant to
escape because the exhausted men and cattle could go no
further in the darkness, for night had not closed the work.
Here, as ever heretofore, did the I4th Light Dragoons and
Bombay Horse Artillery add to their now weighty crown of
laurels.'
Two troops of the Fourteenth had been held in support on
the lower slopes, during the final attack on the two cities of
Gwalior. The fort still remained unconquered. It was owing
to the gallantry of a young officer, Lieutenant Rose, 25th
Bombay Native Infantry, assisted by Lieutenant Waller of the
1 See Appendix B, p. 606.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 317
same regiment, who had under them a detachment of their own
men, and who were posted on duty near the main gateway of
the rock fort, that this important and formidable fortress fell Fort of
into our hands on the 2Oth June, the day following the battle of captured on
Gwalior. It was 'a deed of unsurpassed daring,' says Malleson. 5g^une
Lieutenants Rose and Waller with a party of sepoys and some
of Scindiah's police (Kotwallahs) forced the gate, passed
through the other six gates, charged a gun at the archway of
the fortress, and closed with the rebel garrison opposed to
them. Here they were engaged in a hand-to-hand contest.
A desperate fight ensued, and many fell on both sides, when,
just in the hour of victory, Rose fell mortally wounded by a
musket-ball fired from behind the wall. The man who fired it
was despatched by Waller, but Rose died a hero's death. The
rock fortress was gained. Sir Hugh Rose thus mentions the
circumstance in his despatch : ' But the gallant leader, Lieu-
tenant Rose, who has been twice specially mentioned by me
for good and gallant conduct, fell in the fort mortally wounded,
closing his early career by taking the fort of Gwalior by force
of arms.'
Tantia Topee, as usual, had deserted his post and fled
when the battle was at its height, drawing off numbers of the
rebel cavalry with him as a guard, ' and setting to his men a
base and cowardly example, which went unpunished till a later
period, when the halter encircled his " Bunniah "-born neck at
Sipri.' 1 Thus Morar, the two cities and the fort of Gwalior
were all in our hands by the 2oth of June, and the total losses
of the British arms were less than 100 men killed and wounded.
A squadron of the 8th Hussars and a squadron of the I4th
Light Dragoons, 'honourable representatives of my force,' says
Sir Hugh Rose,2 'escorted His Highness the Prince of Gwalior
to his palace in the Lushkar.' This ceremony was attended by
the Major-General and his staff, who received Scindiah with
every possible mark of respect upon his arrival, in company
with Sir Robert Hamilton, Agent to the Governor-General for
1 Sylvester, p. 190. 2 See Appendix B, p. 606.
3i8
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
The Gwalior
sir Hugh
Force.
Central India, with a large and imposing retinue. Scindiah
was everywhere greeted with enthusiasm by the populace, and
after eighteen days' occupation by the rebels the city, fort,
cantonments and states of Gwalior were restored to their ruling
prince. Subsequently, as a mark of his appreciation of the
great services rendered to him, Scindiah presented to the
officers and men of the Central India Field Force the Gwalior
Star, an elegant design in frosted silver, bearing on it a snake
of gold, the crest of the Prince of Gwalior, and the figures
'1858,' worn with an orange ribbon ; and the royal authority
was afterwards granted for its issue to, and acceptance by,
the troops engaged.
In Appendix B are extracts from the despatch of Sir Hugh
Rose, dated i$th October 1858, giving full particulars of the
recapture of Gwalior and Morar.1
After the victory at Gwalior, Sir Hugh Rose proceeded
to Bombay to assume command of the army of that Presi-
dency. He issued the following farewell order : — ' The Major-
General commanding, being on the point of assuming the
command of the Poona Division of the Bombay army, bids fare-
well to the Central India Field Force, and at the same time
expresses the pleasure he feels that he commanded them when
they gained one more laurel at Gwalior. The Major-General
witnessed with satisfaction how the troops and their gallant
comrades-in-arms, the Rajputana Brigade under Brigadier-
General Smith, stormed height after height, and gun after gun,
under the fire of a numerous field and siege artillery, taking
finally by assault two i8-pounders at Gwalior. Not a man in
these forces enjoyed his natural health or strength : an Indian
sun and months of marching and broken rest had told on the
strongest ; but the moment they were ordered to take Gwalior
for their Queen and country they thought of nothing but
victory. They gained it, restoring England's true and brave
ally to his throne, putting to rout the rebel army, killing many
of them, and taking from them in the field, exclusive of those
1 See p. 603 et seq.
1858] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 319
in the fort, 52 pieces of artillery, all their stores and ammuni-
tion, and capturing the city and fort of Gwalior, reckoned
the strongest in India. The Major-General thanks sincerely
Brigadier-General Napier, C.B., Brigadier Stuart, C.B., and
Brigadier Smith, commanding brigades in the field, for the very
efficient and able assistance which they gave him, and to which
he attributes the success of the day. He bids them and their
brave soldiers once more a kind farewell. He cannot do so
under better auspices than those of the victory of Gwalior.'
On the i Qth June, at Gwalior, immediately Sir Hugh saw that
success was certain, he sent off an express to Brigadier Napier
at Morar requesting him to pursue the rebels as far and as
closely as he could. Napier received this order between 5 and
6 o'clock on the morning of the 2Oth June, and started within
two hours, taking the following troops of his 2nd Brigade
with him l : —
Men.
Lightfoot's troop of Bombay Horse Artillery, . 99
Captain Prettejohn's troop i4th Light Dragoons, 62
Captain Abbott's Hyderabad Cavalry, . . 245
3rd Light Cavalry, 2 troops, . . .104
M cade's Horse, . . . . .180
Total, . . 690
This force, after a fatiguing march of 25 miles exposed to a Affair at j
terrific sun, rested for the night, and next morning, shortly
after sunrise, came up with Tantia Topee and a strong body
of the rebels at Jowra-Alipore.
In his Sepoy Revolt, p. 281, General Innes, V.C., gives the
following account of the engagement which ensued : — ' The
routed and flying enemy were forthwith pursued by a light
column under Brigadier- General Robert Napier, C.B., who
next day overtook them at Jowra-Alipore, drawn up 12,000
strong in two lines. Holding his cavalry in hand in their
1 See Brigadier Napier's report, Appendix B, p. 608 et seq.
320 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
front, but sheltered from them by intervening high ground, he
sent the horse artillery to enfilade their lines from their left
flank. This speedily shook and began to roll up their lines,
when the cavalry were let loose and made a frontal charge. On
this the enemy broke and fled, losing 25 guns, all their equip-
ment, and 300 killed. The rout was complete, and from that
time, the end of June, Tantia Topee's force became a fugitive
one : it gradually dwindled away, though it never surrendered/
This force, which was so effectively dealt with by Brigadier-
General Napier's column, was composed of the remnants of
the Calpee army, with considerable additions picked up at
Gwalior, and was headed by Tantia Topee, Rao Sahib, and
the Nawab of Banda. Malleson says : — ' The result was
decisive. Prettejohn's distinguished valour and Abbott's gallant
leading were especially conspicuous. The dash of Lightfoot's
Horse Artillery was superb to look at. " You cannot imagine,"
writes an eye-witness, a cavalry officer, "the dash of the
artillery : it was wonderful. We could scarcely keep up with
them." But, in fact, every man behaved like a hero ; each
vied with his comrade. After a brief resistance the rebels
broke and fled, hotly pursued. They lost 25 guns, all their
ammunition, elephants, tents, carts, and baggage, and had 300
to 400 men killed. Never was a rout more complete.' The
Fourteenth had only one man (Private G. Staple) wounded in
this affair. Captain Prettejohn, Captain Todd, and Surgeon
Stewart were specially mentioned in the Brigadier's despatches,1
and he recommended for the Victoria Cross Private Novell,
of ' H ' troop, for an act of conspicuous bravery in charging
alone, under a heavy fire, into a village and killing one of the
enemy. The pursuit was continued by the cavalry for 6 miles
from the scene of their first attack.
The following is a brief recapitulation, taken from Malleson,
of what the Central India Field Force had accomplished in
less than six months : —
On 6th January, Sir Hugh Rose had left Indore.
1 See Appendix B, p. 609.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 321
On 24th January, he laid siege to Rathgur.
28th January, he defeated the Rajah of Banpur.
2 Qth January, he took Rathgur.
3rd February, he relieved Saugor.
1 3th February, he took the strong fort of Garrakota.
4th March, he forced the Muddenpore Pass.
1 7th March, his ist Brigade stormed the fort of
Chanderi.
22nd March, he invested Jhansi.
ist April, he defeated Tantia Topee on the Betwa.
3rd April, he successfully stormed Jhansi.
6th May, he defeated Tantia Topee and the Ranee of
Jhansi at Koonch.
23rd May, he beat the rebels at Golowlee near Calpee
and occupied that fort the following day.
1 6th to 2oth June, he recaptured from the rebels the
Morar cantonments, the heights, cities and fort of
Gwalior, and reinstated Scindiah on his throne.
The Central India Field Force was now to a great extent
broken up. Brigadier-General R. Napier, C.B., took command
of the Gwalior Division. The larger portion of the infantry
remained at Morar and Gwalior with some cavalry and artillery,
and a brigade of native infantry, with cavalry and artillery, was
sent to hold Jhansi. Of Brigadier Smith's brigade a part was
sent to Sipri, a part to Goona, and part remained at Gwalior.
The distribution of the Fourteenth was as follows : 3 squadrons
at Gwalior, i squadron at Jhansi.
Many of the officers and men of the Fourteenth had suf-
fered from illness and sunstroke during the operations about
Koonch, Calpee, and Gwalior. Colonel Charles Steuart, C.B.,
Brigadier of the 2nd Brigade, became ill at Koonch, and during
the month of May he, together with Captain Brown, Lieutenant
Leith, Lieutenant Travers, and Veterinary-Surgeon Dawson
went home to England on medical certificate, owing to illness
caused by the hardships and exposure they had undergone in
the campaign. At Golowlee, on 22nd May, Major Scudamore,
122
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1858
Casualties by
sunstroke
amongst
1 4th Light
Dragoons at
Calpee.
Affair at
Garotha,
23rd Septem-
ber 1858.
who was in command of the Fourteenth, was struck down by
the sun's rays, and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gall assumed
temporary command of the regiment, and was senior officer
with the five troops taking part in the pursuit on that day and
at the capture of Calpee.
In the operations about Calpee the Fourteenth had lost,
from sunstroke, 1 2 men : 8 of these were in the left wing
with the ist Brigade, and 4 were in the right wing with the
2nd Brigade.
The tired and enfeebled men of the late Central India
Field Force were now looking forward to some rest and
repose, and as the rains had begun to fall in torrents this
gave them relief from the oppressive heat. But their rest
was destined to be cut short. Tantia Topee had still to be
pursued and the rebels must be hunted down : indeed, for
several months to come there was plenty of work for the
British troops in various directions over Central India and
other provinces. Brigadier Napier operated with his detached
parties first in Gwalior, then in the districts to the west and
south-west of Gwalior, bordering on Rajputana, up to the
end of November. In December a new enemy invaded
Gwalior. The pseudo-prince, as Malleson calls Ferozshah,
who was expelled by our troops from Mundesor in November
1857, had now determined to join Tantia Topee in his
struggles against the British. Accordingly he crossed the
river Jumna on 9th December, coming from Etawah, and
proceeded in the direction of Jhansi. Previous to this, in
the month of August, a column had been sent out from
Jhansi under Captain P. S. Thompson, i4th Light Dragoons,
in which was included a squadron of the Fourteenth consisting
of ' C ' and ' E ' troops. This column was employed in various
operations against the rebels, and had an engagement on
23rd September at Garotha. For his services on this occasion
Captain Thompson subsequently received the thanks of His
Excellency the Most Honourable the Viceroy and Governor-
General of India in Council.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 323
From the loth September to the 4th October, Major Major
Scudamore had command of a column in the field against columns/
the rebels, in which a squadron of the Fourteenth was in-
cluded, consisting of ' A ' and ' H ' troops ; and again from
the 5th October to the end of the year 1858, Major Scuda-
more was hunting down the enemy in command of another
column, included in which was a squadron of the Fourteenth,
composed of ' B ' and ' D ' troops. This column, like the
previous one, took the field and operated in various directions
throughout the districts surrounding Gwalior.
In the month of December, owing to reports received
by Brigadier-General Sir Robert Napier, K.C.B., about the
advance of Ferozshah, as alluded to above, he sent off several
detachments to watch the roads by which that chieftain would
probably come.1 On the morning of the I2th December
he received from the commander of one of these, Captain
William McMahon, i4th Light Dragoons, who was posted with
a detachment of his men near the confluence of the Jumna,
Chambal, and Sind rivers, information that the rebels had
passed into the Lohar district of Kuchwaghar, a marshy spot,
and were advancing up the jungles of the Sind river. The
Major-General, hoping to intercept them, marched that day
from Gwalior to Antri, on the Jhansi road, his force consisting
of the following details : —
Men.
1 squadron i4th Light Dragoons, , . 150
Mahratta Horse, !k ,.' ,• , . , 100
7ist Highlanders, k , . ...... .> 117
25th Bombay Native Infantry, . .- .. : , ; 50
40 camels, Gwalior Camel Corps, , . •- ...
2 Bombay light field battery guns, . ,.,, , ,«f ...
The squadron of the Fourteenth consisted of the ' A ' and
' H ' troops under Captain Prettejohn, and there were also
25 men of the Balandshar Horse, who joined Sir R. Napier's
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 251.
324 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
force at Narwar (for he had marched to the south from Antri,
owing to fresh intelligence received of the rebels' move-
ments), and by the i7th, marching with all speed, he reached
Ranode, which is a large town 50 miles north-east of
Goona.
Affair at As it happened, Ferozshah was marching from a different,
^h°December though parallel, direction on Ranode that very same morning,
1858. with an intention of sacking the place. He was quite ignorant
of the arrival of the English, and his army, a somewhat
irregular mass, extended with a front of nearly a mile.1 Sir
R. Napier had scarcely time to form up the Fourteenth when
the rebels were within a few yards of him, as the other
portions of his little army were delayed by the camels in
crossing a ravine. The troops actually engaged in the action
were Prettejohn's squadron i4th Light Dragoons ; Mahratta
Horse, under Captain F. H. Smith; and 38 men of the 7ist
Highlanders under Captain Smith, mounted on camels, guided
by Captain Templer.
Prettejohn, directly he saw the opportunity for charging,
dashed with his squadron into the midst of the rebels, and
the blow completely doubled them up. They turned and fled
before the Mahratta Horse were upon them, but the latter
were in time for the pursuit. Captain Prettejohn and 13 men
of the Fourteenth were wounded in the charge, which was
carried out with special dash and complete success. The
pursuit was continued for 7 or 8 miles. The rebels, who
as a mass made no resistance, fought bravely in individual
cases. We captured 6 elephants, several horses and ponies,
and a quantity of arms. There were 1 50 dead bodies of the
enemy left on the scene of this charge at Ranode. As Captain
Prettejohn was wounded, the command of the Fourteenth
devolved upon Captain Need, who estimated the loss of the
rebels in the subsequent pursuit at 3OO.2
1 Malleson, vol. v. p. 253.
2 See Appendix B, p. 610 et seg., Captain Need's report and Sir R. Napier's
despatch.
1858] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 325
The following extract from a letter written by Brigadier-
General Sir R. Napier, K.C.B., to Major Scudamore, then
commanding I4th Light Dragoons (owing to the absence on
sick-leave in England of Colonel C. Steuart, C.B., and Colonel
Ainslie being employed elsewhere in India), has reference to
the affair of Ranode : —
1 This morning the enemy were beaten and pursued with
slaughter for eight miles, your glorious Fourteenth going a
mere handful into the mass without looking twice, Prettejohn
leading, as you would expect.'
For their gallant conduct on this occasion the following
officers and men of the Fourteenth were specially brought to
notice in despatches : —
Captain Prettejohn.
Captain Need.
Captain Todd.
Lieutenant Giles.
Regimental Sergeant- Major Thomas Clark.
Corporal George Best (' H ' troop).
Captain Prettejohn's wound was a severe sabre-cut on the Casualties of
outside and back of his left thigh, three inches above the knee. a^
In addition to the 13 men wounded, the Fourteenth also had
i officer's charger wounded and i missing, 5 troop-horses
wounded and 13 troop-horses missing.
Lieutenant Hugh Gough1 of the Mahratta Horse was
present in this affair, and was mentioned in despatches for
his gallant conduct on the occasion. He has very kindly
allowed the following extract from a book written by him to
be inserted here 2 : —
' We (2nd Mahratta Horse) arrived at our destination,
Morar (Gwalior), just in time to take a share in Sir R.
Napier's dashing pursuit of Ferozshah, ending with the
action and complete dispersal of his followers at Ranode on
1 7th December. Sir R. Napier had received intelligence at
1 Now General Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.B., V.C.
2 Old Memories, by General Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.B., V.C. Blackwood, 1897.
326 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858
Morar that Ferozshah, with about 2000 rebels, was endeav-
ouring to make his way across Bundelkund towards Central
India, endeavouring to join forces with the famous Tantia
Topee, about the most energetic and restless of the rebel
leaders. Hoping to cut off Ferozshah, Sir Robert organised
a movable column, consisting of a squadron of the i4th Light
Dragoons, 100 men of the 7ist Highland Light Infantry (as
a camel corps), the 2nd Mahratta Horse, and the Torvanna
Horse (independent Punjaub Cavalry) under a native leader,
Jehan Khan. With this small force, about 350 all told,
Napier left Morar on, I think, December 13, 1858, starting
down the Jhansi road. On arriving near the village of
Ranode in the early morning of the i/th December, our
little force was carefully distributed in ambush, and as the
enemy approached, when thoroughly exposed to our attack on
an open plain, the order was given to " Advance and charge."
We were down on them like lightning, and in an instant all
was confusion, slaughter, and flight. Ferozshah was the
first to bolt, and being well mounted, he got away ; but most
of the leaders were killed, and little resistance was made. It
was a case of sauve qui pent from first to last. Our newly
raised recruits (Mahratta Horse) were not in it with the
1 4th Light Dragoons, who rode like mad and pursued for
seven miles over a most break-neck country. We cut up
numbers, and dispersed the whole gathering, besides capturing
six or seven elephants. Prettejohn of the Fourteenth got a
severe sabre-cut across the thigh, and on my way back I
passed him, much distressed, not at being wounded, but at
being unable to get at his cigars, which, being in his holster,
had disappeared with his horse ! After this affair at Ranode,
the column marched for a time about the jungles in pursuit of
Tantia Topee, and we passed through Goona and Augur
where " Meade's Horse "l were, and subsequently we returned
to Morar.'
1 It was the commandant of ' Meade's Horse,' Major Meade, who subsequently
captured Tantia Topee.
1858-59] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 327
1858-59
In the subsequent pursuit of the rebels by Brigadier-
General Sir R. Napier's column, Major Prettejohn's men
endured some very harassing marches, continuing, as they
did, for a prolonged period.
On ist March 1859, the ' B ' troop joined this column, and
all were employed actively till 3rd April in hunting up bodies
of rebels scattered through dense jungles, the men being
frequently in the saddle from sunrise to sunset. On 2nd
April, ' A ' and ' H ' troops were present at the attack of a
village during some operations in the Gwalior district.
After the battle of Gwalior on i9th June 1858, the head-
quarters of the Fourteenth had remained stationed in the
Morar cantonments for nearly a year ; ' C ' and ' E ' troops
were sent for a time to Jhansi, but they returned, under
Major Thompson, on 3rd August to Morar.
Most of the various troops of the Fourteenth had been
kept employed in different expeditions, on field service, during
these eventful times.
In recognition of their services Majors Scudamore and
Gall were promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonels, and nomin-
ated Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath.
Captains Todd, Thompson, and Prettejohn became Brevet-
Majors, and later on they received the brevet rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel ; and Captains McMahon and Need became
Brevet- Majors.
Regimental Sergeant- Major Clark was awarded the medal
' for gallant conduct in the field.'
During the year 1858 the headquarters were at Kirkee in
January.
On i st February they were at Camp Rahala.
On ist March ,, ,, ,, Camp Jhilwand.
On ist April ,, „ ,, Camp Goona.
328 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1858-59
On ist May they were at Camp Jhansi.
On ist June „ ,, ,, Camp Calpee.
On ist July ,, ,, „ Morar till the end of the year.
Brevet-Colonel Ainslie had been for a time at Jhansi in
command of a brigade, which operated against the rebels and
advanced towards Ranode in December of this year (1858).
DESCRIPTION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GALL, C.B.,
I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS.
(Extract from Scraps from my Sabretache, by G. CARTER STENT.
W. H. Allen and Co., 1882.)
'Colonel Gall deserves something more than a passing
notice, and though I disliked him personally, I cannot refrain
from expressing my admiration of him as a soldier and a
daring officer.
' He was a short, spare, sallow- visaged man ; but in his
little frame was an immense amount of courage and endurance.
He, I believe, gloried in danger, and would face anything or
everything — the devil himself. He had so much confidence
in himself, and during the Sikh war was endeavouring to seize
a standard, when he received a sabre-cut which rendered his
right hand useless. He thought to get over that, however, by
inventing a sword which could be fitted to his wrist ; this, after
a trial or two, he found did not answer, so he had to give it
up and use his left hand. In leading a charge, either against
the enemy or at a field day, he would turn round in his saddle
and say, " Now, men, you are quite at liberty to gallop over
me — if you can ! " He was always so splendidly mounted
that that was an impossibility.
' In riding, his light frame seemed to grow out of the
saddle ; as the old soldier constantly remarked, "He sticks to
the saddle like a sick monkey on the yard-arm ! " He was
reported never to undress, but always to sleep booted and
1 859] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 329
belted, and dressed ready for a turn-out on the instant ; and
this would appear to be true, for at the first blast of the
trumpet he would appear riding down the lines fully equipped,
as if he had been waiting for the trumpet to sound. I am
not his biographer, or I might write a volume concerning
him ; but I will conclude with observing that, though he
was not very popular among his own men as a commanding
officer, every man among us admired him for his daring as
a soldier.'
Sylvester, who lived in the same tent with him during
the greater part of the campaign, says of Lieutenant-Colonel
Gall : ' His energy wore him to a shadow ; he was brave to a
fault, but fussy to a degree. He often slept in his uniform,
and when near the enemy would often get up in the night and
ride round the picquets.'
Since the ist April 1858, a schoolmaster-sergeant had Establishment
ceased to be borne on the strength of cavalry regiments.
During a portion of 1858, Captain J. Barrett had been in
command of the headquarters, nearly all the other officers
being with the various portions of the regiment engaged on
service in the field — some with the Nerbudda Field Force,
some with the Central India Field Force, and some with the
Gwalior Division. Five troops were present at the capture
of Garrakota, 5 troops at the forcing of the Muddenpore
Pass, and 3 troops at the capture of Chanderi.
Towards the close of the year 1858, the service-troops in Effective
India numbered 660 non-commissioned officers and men. The 1858-^9.'
depot at Maidstone consisted of 134.
1859
From ist January to end of April several of the troops
were on field-service with the Gwalior Division, and some, as
we have already related, were detached with flying columns
through the provinces.
330
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1859
'Persia'
Regiment
EngTand'0
March 1859.
Farewell
sir Robert
*^picr 3,nd
Brigadier-
Stuart?
On 2ist January the Fourteenth received permission to
bear the word ' Persia ' on their cap-plates and appointments in
consideration of their services in that country in 1857.
On the 4th March, orders were received for the Fourteenth
to S° to Bombay, preparatory to giving up their horses and
embarking for England. There were 71 men who volunteered
to remain in India, and they were transferred chiefly to the
newly formed regiments, now the igth and 2oth Hussars, and
the 2ist (Empress of India's) Lancers, which were composed
of volunteers from the old Bengal European Light Cavalry
Regiments belonging to the late Honourable East India Com-
pany's service. On the 24th April the Fourteenth gave up
their horses to the Commissariat Department
The headquarters remained at Morar (Gwalior) till 26th
April, when they left by bullock- train en route to Bombay,
the rest of the regiment having proceeded there in advance
by same route.
On the 2oth April, at Camp Serony, when the Fourteenth
were about to proceed to Bombay, the following farewell
order was issued by Brigadier- General Sir Robert Napier,
_ — — ^ _— , _^ ^ , • • • <•> • i
K.C.B., commanding Gwalior Division : — ' I cannot part with
tne troops now leaving the Gwalior Division, after having been
associated with them during a year's eventful service, without
a few words to convey to them my admiration and regard
for their excellent and soldier-like conduct. To Colonel
Scudamore it is due that the State of Duttea and the central
districts of Gwalior were protected from the rebels under the
Rao Sahib, who were baffled by the movements of his small
but undaunted column. The brilliant i4th Light Dragoons
and their charges at Jowra-Alipore and Ranode will not
easily be forgotten.'
The Brigadier's order was as follows : — ' Brigadier-General
Stuart has to express his best thanks and acknowledgments to
the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of that part of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons that served under his command with
the Malwa and Central India Field Forces, for the gallantry
i860] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 333
lost i officer and 72 men, and 6 men died on the voyage
from India. Strength of the regiment embarked at Bombay:
13 officers, 391 non-commissioned officers and men, 19 women,
39 children.
Colonel Steuart received orders to complete the Fourteenth
with troop-horses up to 428, which was done chiefly by pur-
chases in the south of Ireland. Three hundred and thirty-
four troop-horses had joined headquarters with the dep6t,
46 of which were transferred from ist Royal Dragoons, 5th
Lancers, 3rd Light Dragoons, and i5th Hussars.
On the 3rd June the establishment of the Fourteenth was Establishment,
considerably reduced, and was fixed as under : —
8 Troops (instead of 10). 40 Sergeants.
1 Lieutenant-Colonel. 32 Corporals.
2 Majors. 9 Trumpeters.
8 Captains. 8 Farriers.
8 Lieutenants. 537 Privates.
8 Cornets. 428 Troop-horses.
As the second lieutenant-colonelcy was reduced, Lieutenant-
Colonel (Brevet-Colonel) C. P. Ainslie left the regiment.
The changes in establishment since 1854 (when a saddler-
sergeant was added) had been few: in 1857 the number of
troops was increased from 9 to 10, with
59 Sergeants, 40 Corporals,
14 Trumpeters, 625 Privates,
TO Farriers, 703 Troop-horses
and in 1858 the schoolmaster-sergeant was reduced At the Recruiting,
present time the regiment was considerably below its authorised
strength, and several recruiting-parties were sent out from
headquarters, one to Norwich and one to Devizes, and in
addition some of the infantry recruiting centres were given
instructions to aid in obtaining recruits for the Fourteenth.
The greater number of the recruits received came from London
and Birmingham.
334
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1861
Colonel —
William
Beck with.
On 25th July, Major-General J. Lawrenson, Inspector-
General of Cavalry, inspected the troop-horses and remounts.
On 1 2th October, Major-General William Parlby, com-
manding Cavalry Brigade, Dublin district, made an inspection
of the regiment.
On 1 2th November, Major-General William Beckwith, K.H.,
became Colonel of the Fourteenth, in succession to General the
Honourable Sir Henry Murray, K.C.B., deceased. The latter
officer had been promoted to the rank of Knight Commander
of the Order of the Bath shortly before he died. Major-General
Beckwith had previously served in the Fourteenth as major,
up to the year 1833, when he left on being promoted to a
half-pay lieutenant-colonelcy, and it was he who in 1831
commanded the squadron of the Fourteenth employed in the
suppression of the Bristol riots, with such conspicuous ability
and success.
On 1 2th December, Lieutenant G. M. Dew died at Liver-
pool of diphtheria.
1861
Major-General W. Parlby inspected the Fourteenth at
Newbridge on 2 7th March.
On 1 6th April, General the Right Honourable Sir George
Brown, G.C.B., K.H., Commander of the Forces in Ireland,
came from Dublin and reviewed the Fourteenth, when he ex-
pressed great satisfaction with its efficiency in every respect.
Lieutenant- On the iQth June, Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) A.
A. Scudamore. Scudamore, C. B., became Lieutenant-Colonel, and succeeded
Colonel C. Steuart, C.B., in command of the regiment.
On 1 3th August, General H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge,
Commanding-in-Chief, came to the Curragh Camp and reviewed
the Fourteenth, together with the whole of the Cavalry Brigade
of the Dublin Division, and he expressed himself very pleased
at the rapidity with which the Fourteenth, composed for the
most part of recruits and young horses, had since their return
from India been brought up to their present state of efficiency.
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1861] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 335
On 1 3th August, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Scudamore was
awarded a good-service pension of ^100 a year.
On 1 5th August, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales honoured H.R.H. the
Lieutenant-Colonel Scudamore, C. B., and the officers of the wales dines
regiment with his company at dinner, in their mess at New-
bridge Cavalry Barracks.
On the 1 7th August the i4th (King's) Light Dragoons uth (King's)
were converted into Hussars, with the designation of 1 4th
(King's) Hussars, the uniform being blue, busby-bags yellow,
and plumes white.
On the 26th August the Fourteenth were present at a Reviewed by
review of troops held by Her Majesty Queen Victoria on the vicToVSon^h
Curragh of Kildare. Her Majesty was graciously pleased to 9urragh»
i tr i •/• j • i i ft August 1 86 1.
express herself much gratified with the appearance of the troops,
and desired Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Sir
George Brown, G.C.B., Commanding the Forces in Ireland,
to make this known to them.
On the 1 3th, i4th, and i6th September the headquarters
and 6 troops (marching by squadrons) left Newbridge and
arrived on the i7th and following days at Dundalk, where
Major- General Lawrenson, Inspector-General of Cavalry, made
his inspection on the 25th September. He expressed himself
perfectly satisfied in every respect with the appearance of the
regiment. ' H ' troop had marched to Belturbet on the 1 2th
September, and ' G ' troop on the same day to Belfast, there to
be stationed.
Brigadier- General G. W. Key, C.B., commanding the
Cavalry Brigade, Dublin Division, made his inspection of the
regiment at Dundalk on the nth October, and expressed his
satisfaction.
The approximate strength now was 33 officers, 570 non- Establishment.
commissioned officers and men, 390 troop-horses. A sergeant-
instructor of musketry was added to the establishment.
On the 8th October, Lieutenant-Colonel Scudamore, C.B., Lieutenant-
exchanged to the 7th Hussars, and Lieutenant-Colonel
William Russell, Bart., C.B., came from the 7th Hussars to Russell> Bart-
command the Fourteenth.
336
Regiment
arrives at
Manchester
and Preston,
May 1862.
Bandmaster
appointed,
1862.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
1862
[1862-
On the 6th May the regiment left Dundalk, Belfast, and
Belturbet, for Manchester and Preston via Dublin and Liver-
pool, the headquarters arriving on the i3th May at its new
quarters. ' C ' and ' K ' troops went from Dundalk to Preston,
and the remaining 6 troops went from Dundalk, Belfast, and
Belturbet to Manchester.
On the loth July, Major-General Lawrenson, Inspector-
General of Cavalry in Great Britain and Ireland, inspected the
Fourteenth at Manchester, and seemed very pleased with all he
saw. He particularly remarked in flattering terms as to the
excellent manner in which the field movements were performed
under great disadvantages of ground.
On the 6th September, 'A' troop moved from Manchester to
Bury, and ' C ' troop from Preston to Manchester, and on the
1 6th September, 'B ' troop marched from Manchester to Ashton-
under-Lyne, and ' K' troop from Preston to join headquarters at
Manchester.
A bandmaster was added to the establishment this year.
On the 24th September, Major - General Lawrenson,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, again inspected the regiment.
He was very pleased. He praised the good riding of the
men especially, and said that the horses were well bitted, well
groomed, and in good condition, and the non-commissioned
officers' ride he considered excessively smart.
1863
In January, ' D ' troop proceeded from Manchester to Bury,
'A' troop from Bury to Manchester, and ' B ' troop came from
Ashton to Manchester, ' E ' troop going from Manchester to
Ashton-under-Lyne.
On the 2ist March, owing to the riots at Staleybridge, the
' E ' troop from Ashton-under-Lyne, under Captain Chadwick,
was ordered there in aid of the civil power, and the ' H ' troop,
under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Prettejohn, went the same
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night from Manchester to Ashton-under- Lyne to support
the troop already there. ' H ' troop returned on the 25th to
Manchester.
On 27th March the regiment, under command of Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Gall, C.B., was ordered to proceed by
march route to visit the surrounding manufacturing towns
where more riots were expected. It marched by Ashton-
under- Lyne to Staleybridge, and the 'G' troop, under Captain
Mather, was detached to remain for a time at the latter place,
the rest of the regiment returning same day to Manchester.
On 2nd May, 'H' troop from Manchester relieved 'E' troop
at Ashton-under- Lyne. On i5th May, 'G' troop from Man-
chester went to Bury and relieved ' D ' troop, which arrived at
Manchester the same day.
On 2nd October, at Manchester, the Inspector-General of
Cavalry, Major-General Lawrenson, made his inspection of the
regiment and was very pleased. He said, ' The Fourteenth is
a very smart regiment.'
On 3rd September, Her Majesty's gracious permission was 'Central India
granted to the regiment to bear the words 'Central India' on iepte
the appointments.
1864
On the 1 5th March, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Gall,
C.B., retired on half-pay, and Captain R. J. Brown became
Major.
Commencing on the 29th April, the Fourteenth left Man-
chester, Bury, and Ashton, in 5 divisions, ^and marched to
Aldershot, arriving there on the i3th May, and were located
in the North Camp. On the nth June they were in-
spected by Major-General E. C. Hodge, C.B., commanding
the Cavalry Brigade, at Aldershot. He was highly pleased
with everything he saw, and particularly praised the interior
economy and the manner in which the regimental and troop
books were kept.
Y
338
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1865-
In July the regiment was encamped for 14 days at
Sandhurst, under Major- General Hodge, C. B., commanding
Cavalry Brigade, and experienced intensely hot weather.
On the 1 9th September it moved into the West Cavalry
permanent barracks, South Camp. General Sir J. L. Penne-
father, K.C.B., was the General in command at Aldershot.
Major-General E. Hodge, C.B., made a second inspection
of the regiment on the 6th October.
Lieutenant- On the 2Qth November, Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Thompson
Thompson. ' succeeded Colonel Sir William Russell, Bart., C.B., in command
of the Fourteenth, and Captain F. B. Chapman became Major,
after only six years' service.
At this time the uniform of all hussars was blue, facings
same colour, except the 3rd Hussars (red) and i3th Hussars
(buff); the Fourteenth having yellow busby-bags, thus retaining
the old regimental colour of the facings.
Uniform of
Hussars.
1865
The regiment remained in the West Cavalry Barracks,
Aldershot, the whole year, but was encamped in June for
21 days on Cove Common.
On the 5th May, Major-General Hodge, C.B., made his
inspection, and was very pleased with the result. The clean-
liness and good order of the stables, barrack-rooms, and
married people's quarters especially called forth his unqualified
praise. On the 8th August, the Inspector-General of Cavalry,
Major-General Lord George Paget, C.B., inspected and was
perfectly satisfied.
1866
The Fourteenth remained at Aldershot till February, when
a sudden order was received on Sunday night to proceed on
the 24th February to Hounslow, Hampton Court, and Ken-
sington, in relief of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), who
had been suddenly hurried off under Colonel Charles Sawyer by
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train and steamer to Ireland, owing to the ' Fenian ' disturb-
ances. Captain Travers and Lieutenant Ashton with ' D ' troop
went to Kensington, and ' E ' troop, under Captain Chadwick
and Lieutenant Bolton, to Hampton Court ; 'A,' ' B,' ' C,' ' G,'
' H ' and ' K' troops were with headquarters at Hounslow. Later
in the year the ' E' troop came to Hounslow, and 'G ' troop, under
Captain Hay Newton, was sent to Hampton Court.
At this period there were 30 men in the regiment who Education,
could neither read nor write ; 2 1 who could read but not write ; and°reUgion
479 who could read and write ; and 46 men of superior educa- °^h|1gank
tion. Out of the total of 576 non-commissioned officers and 1866.
men serving, there were in the regiment —
491 English. 481 Church of England.
62 Irish. 62 Roman Catholics.
22 Scottish. 22 Presbyterians,
i Foreigner. 1 1 Dissenters.
576 576
In April of this year i Sergeant-cook and i Sergeant- Establishment
Instructor of Fencing were added to the regimental establish-
ment. There were 2 privates who underwent corporal punish-
ment at Hounslow, being the last cases previous to its abolition :
one was for the crime of stealing, and the other for desertion.
On the 27th April the regiment was inspected at Hounslow
by Major-General Lord George Paget, C.B., Inspector- General
of Cavalry, who said he should have much pleasure in report-
ing very favourably as to its state to Field- Marshal H.R.H.
the Duke of Cambridge, Commanding-in-Chief. On the- 6th
August, Lord George Paget, C.B., inspected the regiment
again.
On the 3rd December the Fourteenth marched from Houns- Hyde Park
low to Wellington Barracks, London, and the Royal Mews,
Buckingham Palace, being ordered there ' to aid the civil power
should its services be required.' This was in consequence of the
' Beale ' Hyde Park riots. On the 4th December the regiment
returned to Hounslow.
340 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1867
1867
On the 6th January, Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Thompson
became Brevet-Colonel. On the 4th February, Captain A. N.
Bolton died at Kingstown, near Dublin. On the 2nd April the
Fourteenth began to march to the north of England. On the
23rd April, 'A' and 'C' troops arrived at Newcastle, under Major
Chapman, and remained there till the end of August, when
they proceeded to Hamilton, arriving there on the loth
September. During their stay in Newcastle they did excellent
service at a fire rescue. Each man received a new suit of
uniform as a reward for his bravery and the damage done to his
clothing, also a free gratuity of a week's pay. During April
Regiment and May the Fourteenth were marching to Edinburgh and out-
Scodand! quarters : they were 32 days on the march from Hounslow.
May 1867. <B' troop went to Perth under Captain William Arbuthnot, 'D'
troop (Captain Knox's) and ' G' troop (Captain Hay Newton's)
to Hamilton. ' H ' troop (Captain the Honourable F. Amherst's),
'K' troop (Captain Degby- Boycott's), and 'E' troop with head-
quarters went to Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh. Major R. J.
Brown with the sick and dismounted men, also the women and
children, proceeded from Hounslow by rail and steamer via
• London and Leith. On the i7th August, 'A' troop under
Captain Boycott marched to Kelso for the purpose of escorting
Her Majesty Queen Victoria during her stay at Floors Castle,
on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, returning on
the 26th August to Edinburgh. On the 8th October the
regiment was inspected by Major-General Lord George Paget,
C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry, who was very pleased with
all he saw.
On the 23rd October, Cornet J. L. Milligan died at York.
On the 6th December there was a change of detachments.
'A' troop under Captain Campbell came from Hamilton to
Edinburgh, and ' K ' troop under Captain Knox marched from
Edinburgh to Hamilton. Whilst the latter troop was marching
through Linlithgow they came in for very hard weather, and
1 868] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 341
all had to dismount and lead their horses owing to the ice on
the roads.
Captain R. Chad wick was promoted Major vice R. J.
Brown, retired.
A detachment from ' C,' ' D,' ' G,' and ' K ' troops went from
Hamilton to Glasgow, under Major Chapman.
On the 1 4th December the party marched at 2 A.M., and
was billeted in the cattle-market, men and horses being pro-
vided for by the corporation, they having been ordered to
Glasgow in aid of the civil power to suppress a contemplated
rising of the Fenians there.
On the 1 6th December this detachment returned to
Hamilton.
1868
In May the Fourteenth left Scotland for Ireland, and
embarked in four successive parties at Glasgow in the ss. Duke
of Abercorn for Dublin : —
The first division, ' B ' and ' D ' troops, under Major Chap-
man, arriving at Newbridge the 9th May.
Second division, ' A ' and ' H ' troops, under Major Chad-
wick, arriving at Newbridge the i3th May.
Third division, 'C,' 'G,'and part of ' K ' troops, under Captain
Baskerville, arriving at Newbridge the i8th May ; and the
headquarters and ' E ' troop, under Colonel Thompson, leaving
Edinburgh on the i6th May, arrived at Newbridge on the Regiment
2ist May. Some of the troops remained a night in Portobello
Barracks, Dublin, after disembarkation, and proceeded by
march next day to Newbridge, where the Fourteenth relieved
the roth Hussars, under Colonel V. Baker.
On the 8th June, Major-General A. A. T. Cunynghame,
C.B., commanding the Dublin Division, inspected the regiment
and expressed himself pleased with the result.
On the Qth September, Major-General Lord G. Paget,
C.B., inspected, and previously to him Brigadier-General A.
342 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1868
Little, C.B., made his inspection, and both these general officers
reported most highly to H.R.H. Commanding-in-Chief on the
efficiency of the regiment.
On the roth October, Brigadier-General A. Little, C.B.,
commanding the Cavalry Brigade, Dublin Division, inspected
again at Newbridge.
On the 1 9th October the Fourteenth marched to Dublin,
and were quartered in the Royal Barracks, one troop ('A')
being at Portobello Barracks.
During November and December they were much detached
in the north and south of Ireland in aid of the civil power at
the parliamentary elections, and various troops were employed
at the following places : — Ballincollig, Cork, Youghal, Kinsale,
Bandon, Bantry, Skibbereen, Belfast, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Carrickmacross, and Duleek. The last detachment returned
to Dublin on the i5th December.
In November a wing under Major Chapman, consisting of
' B,' 'E,' ' H/ and ' K ' troops, went by rail from Dublin to Cork,
and sent detachments to Ballincollig, Youghal, Kinsale, Bandon,
Skibbereen, and Bantry. These troops returned by march
route after the elections, reaching Dublin on the i5th December.
1 D ' troop, under Captain Knox, marched to Drogheda the
1 3th November, and returned in ten days to Dublin.
A squadron, ' C ' and ' G ' troops, under Major Baskerville,
went by rail to Dublin on the 23rd November. 'A' troop,
under Captain F. P. Campbell, went by rail to Dundalk on the
1 9th November, thence on the 22nd November to Drogheda,
on the 24th to Carrickmacross, 27th to Duleek, 28th by rail
back to Dublin.
The squadron detached to Ballincollig found everything
in a very ' rough-and-tumble ' state, as no troops had been
stationed there for several years previously. The troops at
small places were for the most part kept on the move, never
halting in the same place more than three days.
Captain F. P. Campbell became Major vice Chadwick.
retired.
1869] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 343
1869
Captain William Arbuthnot was awarded a Brevet-Majority
in recognition of his services in the Abyssinian War under
Lord Napier of Magdala.
From the i st April the squadron system was introduced into Squadron
the cavalry service. As is well known, it proved a failure and SJ
was very short-lived, partly owing to the purchase-system, as l869<
the four junior captains of every regiment who had purchased
the command of their troops lost all command, and partly
owing to the faulty and incomplete manner in which the system
was introduced.
The following was the new organisation of the regiment : —
ist Squadron — Commanded by Brevet-Major Arbuthnot.
Second in command, Captain Ashton.
2nd Squadron — Commanded by Captain Knox.
Second in command, Captain Henry.
yd Squadron — Commanded by Captain Mather.
Second in command, Captain F. S. Russell.
a^th Squadron — Commanded by Captain the Honourable
F. Amherst.
Second in command, Captain the Honour-
able J. St. V. Saumarez.
Establishment of the regiment :—
4 Squadrons. i Assistant- Surgeon,
i Colonel. i Veterinary Surgeon.
1 Lieutenant-Colonel. i Schoolmaster.
2 Majors. 48 Sergeants.
8 Captains. 8 Trumpeters.
8 Lieutenants. 24 Corporals.
4 Cornets. i Saddle-tree maker.
i Paymaster. 12 Shoeing-smiths.
i Adjutant. 4 Saddlers.
i Riding-master. 426 Privates.
i Quartermaster. 344 Troop-horses.
i Surgeon.
344 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1869
On the 1 3th May the Fourteenth were inspected in Dublin
by Major-General Sir A. Little, K.C.B., commanding the
Cavalry Brigade, Dublin Division. On the 28th July the
whole regiment, having marched by squadrons from Dublin,
commencing on the 22nd July, was encamped on the Curragh
in Donelly's Hollow, under command of Colonel P. S. Thomp-
son ; the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) were also there,
under command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Bruce, and
worked in brigade with the Fourteenth, and a very wet season
they had under canvas. Both regiments were very smart : the
Carabiniers were noted for the celerity of their movements, the
Fourteenth for their steadiness at drill and for the care they
took of their young horses.
On the 1 6th August, at the Curragh Camp, Major-General
Lord G. Paget, C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry, made his
inspection of the regiment, and Brigadier-General R. Wardlaw,
C.B., commanding the Cavalry Brigade, Dublin Division,
made his inspection on the i8th October. After an unusually
wet and inclement drill season the camp broke up in October,
and on the 23rd one squadron, with headquarters, marched
to Longford, one squadron to Newbridge, one squadron to
Limerick, half a squadron to Castlebar, and half a squadron
remained at Curragh Camp under Captain the Honourable
F. Amherst for vedette duty, the remainder of the Fourteenth
having left camp by the 25th October.
On the 27th November the squadron at Newbridge went
by rail to Nenagh in aid of the civil power during the
Tipperary elections, and returned to Newbridge on the 3Oth
November.
On 7th December the half squadron on vedette duty at
the Curragh Camp proceeded to Longford, being relieved
in the vedette duty on the Curragh Camp by a half squadron
of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) from Newbridge,
under Captain H. B. Hamilton.1 The squadron al Newbridge
marched to Athlone on the 7th December, and a half squadron
1 Afterwards Colonel H. B. Hamilton, commanding I4th Hussars.
1 870] THE MTH (KING'S) HUSSARS 345
went on election duty to Ballymahon on the i6th December,
returning the same day to Longford. The elections were
going on in Tipperary and Longford, and the Fourteenth
were much detached in various places for short periods from
November 1869 to April 1870. On the i8th and 2Oth
December a squadron went from Limerick to Ballinrobe, and
detachments were employed in aid of the civil power during
the winter at Westport, Claremorris, Tuam, and Dunmore.
One and a half squadrons, with headquarters, were em-
ployed on election duty at Longford on the 3ist December.
Colonel P. S. Thompson was awarded a Companionship of
the Order of the Bath this year in recognition of his services.
1870
In March a squadron (' H ' and ' K ' troops) under Major
Chapman went from Athlone to Tuam in aid of the civil
power, and a squadron went to Ballymahon from the i2th to
the 1 4th April on similar duty, owing to County Longford
elections.
The squadron organisation, after one year's existence, was Troop system
abolished on the ist April. The troop system was reintro- April 1870! '
duced into the cavalry service from the above date.
Consequent on the abolition of the squadron organisation
system on the ist April, one troop in the regiment was reduced,
and the establishment fixed as follows :—
Seven troops with 25 officers (the Surgeon and Assistant-
Surgeon being attached, and no longer belonging to the
regiment as before, and one major being reduced from the
establishment).
39 sergeants. 2 1 corporals.
8 trumpeters. 386 privates.
4 farriers. 300 troop-horses.
Total all ranks, 483.
All ranks hailed the return of the popular old troop system,
346 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1871
for the squadron organisation had only been introduced in a
faint-hearted manner. It was feebly supported, and the way
it was worked proved utterly unsuitable to the requirements of
our weak cavalry regiments, especially when split up into
several small detachments as was the case with regiments in
Ireland at this period.
During the month of April,- from the loth to the i6th, the
headquarters at Longford, together with the depot troop of the
8th Hussars,1 were employed under Colonel Thompson in aid
of the civil power during elections at Longford. On the 27th
May, Major-General R. Wardlaw, C.B., made his inspection of
the Fourteenth and was quite satisfied. He particularly noticed
the fine condition of the horses. Thirty-four troop-horses were
transferred to the 7tK Hussars.
During July the move of the regiment from Longford and
out-stations to Cahir and out-stations took place.
On the 2oth July the headquarters and ' C ' troop, under
Major Chapman, with the depdt troop of the 8th Hussars
under Captain H. E. Malet, arrived at Cahir ; ' B ' troop,
under Captain Laing, went to Fethard ; ' D ' troop to Fermoy,
under Captain Knox, and subsequently ' A ' troop also ; ' H '
troop to Waterford ; ' G ' troop to Clogheen.
A detachment went to Carrick-on-Suir.
Headquarters and remainder of the regiment went to Cahir,
where Major-General Wardlaw, C.B., Commanding Cavalry in
Ireland, made an inspection on the iQth October, and was
very pleased.
1871
Establishment On the ist February a considerable augmentation took
augmented to , , , , . , - , . i • i i i
8 troops. place in the establishment of the regiment, which was altered
1 Under the new regulations a depot troop from Canterbury belonging to the 8th
(King's Royal Irish) Hussars, under Captain Harold Malet and Lieutenant Hooper,
joined the i4th Hussars to be attached to it, the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury having
been temporarily abolished, pending reorganisation.
ERRATA
At page 346, lines 9 and 18, for ' 8th Hussars ' read ' i8th Hussars.'
,, footnote1, for ' 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars' read ' l8th Hussars.
At page 347, line 28, for '8th Hussars' read ' i8th Hussars.'
Hamilton's 14111 Hussars.
1871] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 347
from 7 to 8 troops, with the following numbers of the various
ranks of non-commissioned officers and men and troop-horses : —
42 sergeants. 32 corporals.
9 trumpeters. 5 1 5 privates.
8 farriers. 384 troop-horses.
Total non-commissioned officers and men, 606.
On the 24th February, Major-General H. Richmond Jones, Colonel—
C.B., who had passed all his service in the 6th Dragoon Guards H' R> J°nes-
(Carabiniers), became Colonel vice Lieutenant-General William
Beckwith, K. H., deceased.
On the 27th March, ' D ' troop under Captain Knox marched
from Fermoy to Clonmel. On the 3rd May, Major-General
R. Wardlaw, C.B., made his half-yearly inspection of the
Fourteenth at Cahir, and during the same month they marched
to fresh quarters as follows : —
' A ' and ' B ' troops, under Brevet-Major Arbuthnot,
from Fethard to Cork.
' C ' troop, under Captain Russell, from Carrick-on-Suir
to Bandon.
1 D ' troop, under Captain Knox, from Clonmel to Fermoy.
' E ' troop, under Captain Palmer, from Cahir to Limerick.
' G ' troop, under Captain Peel, remained at Clogheen.
' H ' troop, under Captain the Honourable F. Amherst,
and ' K ' troop, under Captain Beaumont, from Cahir
to Cork.
The headquarters at Ballincollig, being apparently repre-
sented by a few details, together with the band, and the depot
troop 8th Hussars, which latter did not go to the now re-
organised Cavalry Depot, Canterbury, till the ist June 1871,
having been attached to the i4th Hussars since April 1870.
The headquarters, under Colonel Thompson, left Cahir on the
9th May, and reached Ballincollig on the 1 3th of that month.
The troop at Bandon under Captain Russell marched in
aid of the civil power, on the 2ist August, to Kinsale, and
returned on the 23rd to Bandon.
The regimental club at Ballincollig gave several dramatic
348 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1872
performances during their stay there. One of the best plays
was the Seven Bags of Gold, which was listened to repeatedly
by some very appreciative audiences.
On the 3rd October, Major-General Wardlaw, Commanding
the Cavalry in Ireland, inspected the Fourteenth at Ballincollig,
and was very satisfied with the result.
Upwards of 50 men were ordered to be transferred to the
1 8th Hussars at Bangalore, owing to the losses there by
cholera, and the transfers took place either this year or in 1872.
Captain and Brevet- Major William Arbuthnot, who had
received a brevet- majority for his services in the Abyssinian
campaign of 1868, became Major vice Chapman, retired.
1872
On the ist February a detachment went from Fermoy to
Listowel.
On the 3rd February a detachment went from Ballincollig
to Killarney.
On the 4th February a detachment went from Limerick to
Listowel.
The County Kerry elections were now going on, and the
Fourteenth were much employed on election duty from the ist
to the 1 6th February, during which time they furnished detach-
ments for duty at various polling-places, such as Listowel,
Castle Island, Killorglin, Cahersiveen,1 Kenmare, Killarney,
and Dingle, in aid of the civil power. Captain the Honour-
able F. Amherst and Captain Knox commanded at Listowel
on separate occasions ; Captain Peel at Castle Island ; Captain
the Honourable J. St. V. Saumarez at Cahersiveen ; Captain
Lefroy at Dingle; Lieutenant M'Taggart at Killorglin;
Lieutenant Merry at Killarney ; and Lieutenant Bray at
Kenmare.
On the 27th March, one troop from Limerick, under Captain
Lefroy, proceeded to Galway, and returned on the 3Oth March,
1 Or Cahirciveen.
1873] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 349
being employed in aid of the civil power during the trial of the
County Galway election petition.
On the 3Oth March, Major-General Holdich, C.B., Com-
manding the Cork District, inspected the headquarters at
Ballincollig under Colonel Thompson, and Major-General
Wardlaw, C.B., inspected at the same place on the 3rd May.
On the ist April the Regimental Hospital-Sergeant \vasEstabiishment.
reduced from the establishment under the new system of the
Army Medical Department, and regiments lost their medical
officers.
In May the Fourteenth marched from Ballincollig and out-
stations to Newbridge, where they arrived on the 25th May.
Lieutenant Kentish marched in charge of the young horses of
the regiment. Captain the Honourable F. Amherst's troop
(' H ') took up the vedette duty on the Curragh Camp on the
5th July in relief of a troop of the 8th Hussars.
On 2nd and 3rd October, Major-General Robert Wardlaw,
C.B., Commanding the Cavalry in Ireland and the Curragh
District, made a minute inspection of the Fourteenth at New-
bridge, and expressed himself very pleased with the state of
the regiment, which was particularly praiseworthy considering
the very scattered state in which it had been during the past
three years, owing to its being quartered in so many detach-
ments, and so much broken up for election duties all over
Ireland. The following is an extract from Horse Guards
letter received on 24th January 1873, through the Cavalry
Brigade office, Curragh Camp, containing observations by the
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, H.R. H. the Duke of
Cambridge, on the last annual inspection of the regiment : —
' The 1 4th Hussars are in excellent order, and ably com-
manded by Colonel Thompson. H.R. H. desires this corps
and their commanding officer should be highly commended.'
1873
On the ist January, 'D' troop under Captain Knox pro-
350 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1874
ceeded from Newbridge to the Curragh Camp, and took over
the vedette duty from 'H ' troop, under Captain the Honourable
F. Amherst, which latter troop joined the remainder of the
regiment at Newbridge on the same date. 'D' troop returned
to Newbridge from vedette duty on the i6th July.
On the 5th May the depot, with recruits and young horses
under Captain Harpur, proceeded to Dublin to the Royal
Barracks, to be stationed there whilst the regiment was at
summer drills.
Colonel— John On the 1 5th May, General John Wilkie was appointed
Colonel vice General H. R. Jones, C.B., transferred to the
Colonelcy of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers).
On the 4th July the Fourteenth participated in the review of
the troops on the Curragh by the Right Honourable Lieutenant-
General Lord Sandhurst, G.C.B., Commanding the Forces in
Ireland, who was highly pleased with the appearance and
movements of all.
On the ist September, Major-General Wardlaw, C.B., made
his inspection at Newbridge. He was very pleased, and noticed
the fine condition of the horses.
In October the Fourteenth marched to Dublin and took
over quarters in the Royal Barracks.
1874
Regiment In May the regiment, after six years' sojourn in Ireland, of
Aidershot, which the greater part had been passed in small and scattered
stations, left Dublin for Aidershot. The march was com-
menced on the 2Oth May, when the first division, consisting of
'A' and 'B' troops under command of Major William Arbuthnot,
left the Royal Barracks, and embarking at North Wall, Dublin,
in ss. St. Patrick for Birkenhead, proceeded thence by march
route to North Camp, Aidershot. The second division, consisting
of ' H ' and 'K' troops under Captain the Honourable F. Amherst,
embarked in ss. Windsor at the same place on the 22nd May,
and proceeded by similar route to Aidershot. The third division,
1 874] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 351
'C' and *D' troops under Captain Knox, embarked in ss. St.
Patrick on the 25th May, and likewise marched from Birkenhead
to Aldershot. The fourth division, consisting of headquarters
with ' E ' and ' G ' troops under Major Campbell, and the young
horses in charge of Riding-Master Harran, went by ss. Windsor
to Birkenhead, and by route march to Aldershot ; and the
fifth and last division, consisting of the women and children
in charge of Captain M'Taggart, embarked in ss. Cymba for
Portsmouth, and thence went by rail to Aldershot.
The Fourteenth arrived at Aldershot by the i6th June and
were placed under canvas in the North Camp, the horses being
located in temporary stables. After taking part in the first
period of the summer drills under command of Colonel
Thompson, during which time the regiment was attached to
the 2nd Division and encamped at Woolmer from the 22nd to
the 24th June, it occupied the South Cavalry Barracks for the
winter on the $rd July in relief of the Royal Scots Greys.
Later on the regiment also took part in the second period of
summer drills with the ist Division, encamping at Colony End
on the Chobham Ridges on the 7th July, and returning to the
South Cavalry Barracks on the loth July.
On the 2oth July the Fourteenth encamped with the rest of
the troops of the Division at Woolmer, and returned to Aldershot
on the 29th July. On the 6th, 7th, and 8th October, Major-
General Sir Thomas W. M°Mahon, Bart, C.B., Commanding
Cavalry in Great Britain, inspected the regiment and was very
satisfied. He was pleased with everything he saw, but especially
noticed the admirable manner in which the regimental office
work and clerking were conducted.
Captain F. Russell received a Brevet- Majority for his
services in the Ashantee War on the west coast of Africa this
year.
During the year 19 men deserted, and 4 were given up as
deserters to other corps. On the 3Oth December, Captain
A. E. T. Preston died of scarlet fever at Mentone, in the south
of France.
352 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1875
Lieutenant- On the 2Qth April, Colonel P. S. Thompson retired on
' ' half-pay, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. P. Campbell succeeded
to the command of the Fourteenth. One major was reduced
from the establishment.
The regiment took part in the summer drills at Aldershot
in July with the 2nd Army Corps, marching to Coldingly on the
1 3th July and encamping there, thence to Hartford Bridge
Flats, and encamping there 2oth July, returned to Aldershot
the 22nd July.
On the 26th July, 'A,' <B,' 'C,' 'H,'and 'K ' troops marched
to Colchester, arriving on the 3ist July. 'C,' 'D' *E,' and'G'
troops marched on the 2/th July and arrived on the 2nd August.
At Colchester the Fourteenth received orders to prepare for
embarkation for India, and came under the command of Major-
General Sir E. Greathead, K.C.B., commanding the Eastern
District.
On the 25th September, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge
made his farewell inspection of the regiment at Colchester.
There was a story current in the Fourteenth that on this occasion
the favourite pork chops destined for His Royal Highness's
luncheon were owing to some unforeseen occurrence eaten
previously by the Riding- Master ! l His Royal Highness, in
bidding farewell to the regiment, was graciously pleased to
express his entire satisfaction with its discipline and with the
good conduct it had ever shown during the time of its home
service. His Royal Highness especially referred to the dis-
tinguished name for good horses the regiment had in recent
years obtained, and this he credited to the late commanding
officer, Colonel P. S. Thompson, C.B.
On the 28th and 29th September, Major-General SirT. W.
McMahon, Bart., C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry, made an
1 The author will not vouch for the absolute accuracy of this statement. When
the Duke used to come to inspect regiments it was always a rule to have pork chops
amongst the other delicacies provided for His Royal Highness.
_>V«v-
~&X£&M&?t£ - &t>6?rte/ ^yf ^y. r ff ///A/'sd/,
1875] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 353
inspection of the Fourteenth. He was very pleased, and Regiment
especially with the outpost duty. In November the actual India.
'orders of readiness' for India were received.
'E' and 'G' troops were broken up, as the establishment was Establishment
reduced from 8 to 6 troops, and a depot troop was formed 6troops°anda
under the command of Captain Harpur. ^P61 tro°P-
Being under orders for India, the establishment of the
Fourteenth was fixed as follows from the ist October 1875 : —
Colonel, ..... i
Lieutenant-Colonel, ... i
Major, ..... i
Captains, .... 7
Lieutenants and Sub- Lieutenants (the
rank of ' Cornet ' had been recently
abolished), . . . . 14
Adjutant, .... i
Riding-master, .... i
Quartermaster, .... i
Veterinary Surgeon, ... i
Total, . 28 officers.
Non-commissioned officers and trum-
peters, . . . . 52
Rank and file, . . . .465
Total all ranks, . 545
Troop-horses, 456, of which 20 are for service at the cavalry
depot at Canterbury.
The actual strength of the regiment at this date was 608
non-commissioned officers and men, with 380 troop-horses.
During the year 47 men deserted and 7 were given up as
deserters from other corps.
One non-commissioned officer (Mr. J. Merrill) was promoted
to the rank of Quartermaster, and he soon after exchanged to
the 1 8th Hussars with Quartermaster G. F. Rumsey.
354 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1876
1876
On the 3rd January a party of 80 men, with the married
families, under Captain Kentish and Sub- Lieutenant G. H. C.
Hamilton1 (recently promoted from the ranks of the 2nd Life
Guards), proceeded by rail from Colchester to Portsmouth for
embarkation in H.M.S. Euphrates.
On the 4th January the headquarters and service troops
followed by the same route, and on the 5th January the
regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Col. F. P. Campbell,
sailed from Portsmouth for India in H.M.S. Euphrates.
On the 1 7th January the depot, under Captain Harpur and
Lieutenant Garrett, moved from Colchester to join the Cavalry
Depot at Canterbury, where the Commandant was Colonel
Conyers Tower, C.B.
The strength of the depot troop was 125 non-commissioned
officers and men.
Roll of officers of the \^th (Kings) Hussars embarked in
H.M.S. 'Euphrates' at Portsmouth on the ^th January
1876, for conveyance to Bombay.
Lieutenant-Colonel — F. P. Campbell, commanding the
regiment
Major — William Arbuthnot.
Captains — J. H. Knox.
W. B. M'Taggart.
J. Dennis.
H. L'E. Malone.
Lieutenants — J. Kentish.
R. Garth.
A. J. English.
C. D. V. Tuthill.
J. S. Heron-Maxwell.
C. F. Lindsell.
G. C. Ricardo.
W. E. Stokes.
W. L. M'Call.
R. Owen.
1 Afterwards Colonel G. H. C. Hamilton, commanding I4th Hussars.
1877] THE i4Tn (KING'S) HUSSARS 355
Sub -Lieutenants — W. H. Burn.
A. C. King.
G. S. M. Palmes.
G. H. C. Hamilton.
Paymaster — Captain E. H. O'Dowd.
Lieutenant and Adjutant — The Honourable H. G. Gough.1
Veterinary Surgeon — F. F. Marshall.
Quartermaster — J. Merrill.
Riding-master — J. Harran.
Surgeon — T. M. Barrow, M.D.
Strength of non-commissioned officers and men, 425.
Officers' wives, 4 ; officers' children, 2.
Soldiers' wives, 57 ; soldiers' children, 100.
Sailed 5th January 1876; experienced pleasant weather
throughout the whole voyage, and no casualty occurred.
On the 8th February the Fourteenth disembarked at Regiment
Bombay and arrived by rail at Poona, where Major-General India* '
Lord Mark Kerr made an inspection. On the i4th February February 1876.
they arrived by rail at Bangalore, and remained stationed there
for the next five years in the cavalry barracks. The route
from Poona was via Sholapore, Karchore, and Arconum.
Lieutenant-Colonel F. P. Campbell died at Bangalore on Lieutenant-
the 1 4th June of acute dysentery, after a week's illness, at thewmiam
age of 39 years, when Major William Arbuthnot got command Arbuthnot-
of the Fourteenth as Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain J. H.
Knox became Major. Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell was deeply
regretted by officers and men alike. He was buried on the i5th
June in the cemetery with full military honours, his funeral
being largely attended by the residents of Bangalore.
The strength of the service troops on the ist December
was 437 non-commissioned officers and men, with 393 troop-
horses.
1877
On the 9th and zoth February, Major-General Elmhirst,C.B.,
Commanding the Mysore Division, inspected the regiment and
1 Afterwards Colonel the Hon. G. H. Gough, C.B., commanding i4th Hussars.
356 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1877
was very pleased with all he saw. He said he considered the
perfect state of the regiment could only result from the greatest
attention to their respective duties on the part of every rank
in it
On the 8th September, His Excellency the Most Honourable
Lord Lytton, G. C.S.I., Viceroy and Governor- General of India,
honoured Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot and the officers with
his company at dinner in their mess-house. His Excellency
was accompanied by his staff, among whom and the other
guests were the following : —
Sir Alexander Arbuthnot, K. C.S.I.
The Honourable J. Bayley.
Mr. Thornton, C.S.I.
Lieutenant-Colonel Burne, C.S.I., Private Secretary.
Colonel Pomeroy Colley, C.B., Military Secretary.
Mr. Bernard.
Dr. Barnett.
Captain the Honourable G. P. Villiers, Grenadier
Guards, A.D.C.
Captain Loch, A.D.C.
The Chief Commissioner of Mysore.
His Excellency paid a visit to the barracks, hospital,
troop-bungalows, married-quarters, stables, etc., on the 9th
September, and he again honoured the regiment with his
presence, accompanied by his staff, and witnessed a theatrical
entertainment given by the regimental club in the recreation
room on another day, on which occasion he presented the
famous comic singer of the regiment, Private Samson, with a
seal as a memento.
On the nth October the Fourteenth were inspected in the
field by Lieutenant-General Sir Neville Chamberlain, G.C.B.,
G.C.S.L, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army. On
the two previous days the Commander-in-Chief visited the
stables and the barracks generally, and after his inspection
made the following report : 'His Excellency considered the
1878] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 357
turn-out on all occasions, both as regards men and horses, most
creditable.
' Reconnoitring duties, aided by the signallers of the
regiment, were carried out very favourably. His Excellency
directs that his commendation be expressed to Colonel Arbuth-
not and his officers for the time and attention that have been
given to this important practical part of light cavalry duties.'
During this year 2 men of the regiment died of cholera.
1878
On the 1 5th and i6th February, Lieutenant-General
Elmhirst, C.B., made his annual inspection of the Fourteenth,
after which he addressed Colonel Arbuthnot at the head of
the regiment, and spoke in very flattering terms as to all he
had seen, as well as of the good behaviour of all ranks since
they came under his command.
The regiment remained stationed at Bangalore all this
year.
Much regret was felt in the Fourteenth upon hearing of
the death at Beverley, Yorkshire, on the ist May, of Colonel
P. S. Thompson, C.B., a former much-respected commanding
officer.
On the 7th November the Fourteenth received orders to
prepare for immediate active service in Afghanistan. The Ordered to
A f V» * f
telegram came as follows : — ' Clear the line : Hussars, 67th
Regiment, 3oth and 36th Native Infantry, and 2 companies
Sappers for service.' Later intelligence informed that these
regiments were to constitute part of a Madras Brigade which,
with a Bombay Brigade, were to form a Reserve Division on
theLower Indus under the command of Major-General Primrose.
Accordingly, all was got ready for service. Sword-blades
were sharpened, scabbards blackened, belts and helmets •
browned. On the 24th November a telegram was received,
' Lower Indus Division modified for the present,' and on the
1 3th December came a telegram from the Government of
358
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1879-
Order for
Afghanistan
counter-
manded.
Educational
statistics of
regiment.
India which was almost a countermand, ' i4th Hussars not
likely to be required to move yet awhile.' Some cholera
broke out again this year, and one man died of sunstroke.
Lieutenant W. E. Stokes died of acute mania at Madras on
the 26th September.
On the 23rd and 24th December, in accordance with a
special order from Headquarters of the Army applicable to
corps warned for service, the Fourteenth were inspected by
Colonel Hill Wallace, C.B., Royal Horse Artillery, Com-
manding at Bangalore. He was very pleased, and especially
commended the non-commissioned officers who had been
working as road sketchers, also the regimental signallers, and
pointed out how very useful on service these acquirements
would be.
1879
The whole of this year was spent at Bangalore.
At this period there were the following number of educa-
tional certificates in possession of the non-commissioned officers
and men of the regiment : —
1st Class. 2nd Class. 3rd Class. 4th Class. Total.
5 JI3 IQo J45 363
There were only 4 men who could neither read nor write.
On the 3rd May, Major-General W. Payne, C.B., com-
manding the Mysore Division, inspected the regiment and was
very pleased.
i860
The whole of this year also was passed by the regiment at
Bangalore. On the 2ist and 22nd February, Major-General
Payne, C.B., made his annual inspection.
There was a camp of exercise held at Begaum this year
for eight days, where the Fourteenth took part in some
interesting manoeuvres.
The depdt troop still remained at Canterbury, where Colonel
E. Napier was the Commandant.
Whilst the regiment was at Bangalore this year, Colonel
i88i] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 359
Arbuthnot selected ' The King of Prussia ' as the regimental Regimental
i i / \ march.
slow march (see p. 435).
The establishment of the regiment was fixed from the Establishment,
ist July as follows : — l88°*
8 Troops — 27 Officers.
2 Warrant Officers1 (i Regimental Sergeant-
Major and i Bandmaster).
41 Sergeants (the Trumpet-Major was now
styled Sergeant-Trumpeter).
8 Farriers.
32 Corporals.
510 Privates.
400 Troop-horses.
1881
On the 1 3th February, ' orders of readiness ' for active Regiment
service in South Africa were received. soiST Africa,
On the 1 4th February, Major-General Payne, C.B., made February l88r-
his inspection of the Fourteenth at Bangalore, and in his sub-
sequent order he said : ' I bid farewell to the officers, non-
commissioned officers and men, in the full assurance that
they will maintain the bright reputation that has always
distinguished the i4th King's Hussars.'
From the i8th to the 28th February the regiment left Lands at
Bangalore for active service in the Transvaal, sailing from March 1881.
Bombay in three separate steamers of the British India
Steamship Company's service, and landed at Durban from
the 1 4th to the 26th March.
One troop was left at Bangalore under Lieutenant Fraser,
which formed a depdt, when the regiment proceeded on
service.
' C ' troop, under Captain R. Garth, left Bangalore on the
8th March, strength 100 men, 130 horses, and embarked in
1 This was the first appointment of Warrant Officers, such as Regimental
Sergeant- Major and Bandmaster.
360 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1881
transport ss. Chufra, 26th February, at Bombay, and landed
at Durban on i4th March, then marched to Pietermaritzburg.
'A ' and ' B ' troops with headquarters under Lieutenant-
Colonel Arbuthnot, strength 8 officers, 152 men, 179 horses, left
Bangalore on the 22nd February, embarking at Bombay in
the ss. Booldana (Captain Wood) on the ist March, landed
at Durban i8th to 2oth March, and proceeded on the 2ist
to march to Pietermaritzburg. The third party under Major
Knox, strength 10 officers, 167 men, 194 horses, left Bangalore
the 28th February, embarked on the nth March on the
ss. Hankow at Bombay, and landed at Durban the 26th
March, proceeding the next day towards Pietermaritzburg.
On arrival at Durban, information of the death of Major-
General Sir G. Pomeroy Colley was received ;' also of an
armistice of three days, and it was generally thought this
meant an end of the Boer war. Owing to the surf at Durban,
the Fourteenth disembarked in lighters. By the nth April
the whole regiment was concentrated under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Arbuthnot at Estcourt, where it remained
till the 1 7th April, and then marched to Ladysmith. The
regiment remained several months inactive at Ladysmith,
during which there was not much to occupy the men, and
several desertions took place into the Orange Free State ;
but by sending off mounted parties under an officer of the
deserter's troop, this was gradually put a stop to, and most
of the delinquents were brought back. One man (Private
Kavanagh) got away on a stolen horse, and he subsequently
claimed Queen's Jubilee pardon at Shorncliffe in 1887 and
received it.
Lieutenant- On the i5thjune, Major J. H. Knox became Lieutenant-
Colonel, and succeeded Colonel William Arbuthnot in com-
mand of the regiment, Captain (Brevet- Major) F. S. Russell
becoming Major in succession.
On the ist July the new warrant was promulgated, by
which Major F. S. Russell became second Lieutenant-Colonel,
and the three senior Captains — Dennis, Kentish, and Hickman
— became Majors, but still remained in command of troops.
i88i] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 361
During the stay at Ladysmith a stampede of the horses stampede and
took place, in which several were lost, supposed to have been
drowned in the Klip river ; and there was a fire of the grass
round camp one night, but the whole camp was quickly turned
out — 1 4th Hussars, i5th Hussars, and Welsh Regiment — and
by their help the flames were got under, and only a few tents
belonging to some wounded soldiers of the Royal Scots
Fusiliers were damaged. Regimental Sergeant- Major Thomp-
son died at Ladysmith, and Troop Sergeant- Major H. A.
Pridgeon was promoted Regimental Sergeant- Major, with the
rank of a warrant-officer, dated ist July 1881. There were
also several other deaths amongst the rank and file, and one
sergeant (Rowley) was found dead at the bottom of the
cliffs, several days after he was missed from camp, having
probably fallen over in the dark.
On the 1 5th August, at Ladysmith, His Excellency Major-
General Sir H. E. Wood, V.C., K.C.B., Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of Natal, inspected the Fourteenth in
marching order, and on the conclusion of the parade expressed
himself pleased with what he had seen, and especially so with
the condition of the horses and the riding of the men. The
strength of the regiment was 24 officers, 484 non-commissioned
officers and men, 415 troop-horses, and 43 officers' chargers.
One squadron (' D ' and ' H ' troops) under Major Kentish,
numbering about 90 sabres, proceeded to Zululand to act as
escort to His Excellency Major-General Sir H. E. Wood, on
the 1 6th August. This squadron joined a squadron of the
6th Inniskilling Dragoons and a squadron of the I5th Hussars
at Stale's Drift, Buffalo River, and proceeded thence, under the
command of Colonel George Luck, C. B., i5th Hussars, to the
Inhlazane Mountains in Zululand, returning to Ladysmith
on the 1 2th September. One private was severely frost-bitten,
and one troop-horse died on the march.
The regiment had entered Zululand in August, and it
left Ladysmith the 5th November via Pinetown for the coast,
having received orders to return to India. Several of the
worst horses in the regiment were sold on the spot, the
Regiment
arrived in
India,
November
1881.
362
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1882
Boers giving fabulous prices for them. Headquarters and
right wing, under Lieutenant-Colonel Knox, embarked at
Durban on the i3th November in the ss. Calabria, all hostili-
ties with the Boers having ceased, and landed at Bombay
on the 3Oth November, and were encamped there on the
esplanade, marching on the 7th December for Secunderabad,
where they arrived on the 2ist January 1882, relieving the
1 2th Lancers.
The left wing, under Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Russell,
embarked at Durban on gth December in ss. Hankow, landed
in Bombay 3ist December, and encamped on the Maidan, or
esplanade, for a few days.
1882
The left wing marched from Bombay on 3rd January for
Secunderabad, where it arrived on 2ist February, the right
wing having come there a month previously, as already
related.
CASUALTIES IN NATAL.
Officers.
Men.
Horses.
u
cq
<
Landed in Natal,
28
445
475
H
U
Transferred to regiment,
15
z
Total increase,
15
Died, . . .
6
Destroyed,
8
Cast and sold,
29
m
<
Sent to England,
6
68
H
at
Deserted,
2
i
i
Transferred, .
5
56
Q
Discharged in Colony,
8
Invalids, ....
17
Total decrease,
6
106
94
Landed at Bombay, .
22
354
38i
1882] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 363
The following was communicated in a letter from the
General Officer commanding at Natal, dated i9th November
1 88 1, to the Quartermaster-General of the Forces, Horse
Guards, London : —
1 1 have the honour to report for the information of H.R.H.
the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, that the head-
quarters of the 1 4th King's Hussars marched from Pinetown
to Port Durban, a distance of thirteen miles, on the morn-
ing of the i4th November. The embarkation commenced Record
. i 11 i 11 embarkation
at 7.30 A.M. same day, and all horses, men, and baggage Of a wing of
had left the land by 3.15 P.M. No casualties occurred, HussJrsat
and the Assistant Quartermaster-General reports that the P"1^11 in
** . less than
regiment presented a most creditable appearance. It is the eight hours'
first time that a wing of a cavalry regiment complete with
horses has been embarked from Durban, and any one ac-
quainted with the bar and heavy surf at Durban will know
the difficulties that embarking officers have to contend with,
and the danger that is attendant thereon.'
On 28th February, at Secunderabad, Major-General Sir
C. P. Keyes, K.C.B., commanding Hyderabad Subsidiary
Force, inspected the Fourteenth. He expressed himself
entirely satisfied with all he saw. He inspected again on
the 1 9th September with an equally satisfactory result.
On 1 5th March, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
in India, General Sir F. S. Roberts, Bart., V.C., G.C.B.,
C.I.E., inspected the regiment, and was satisfied with what
he saw.
On ist January 1882 the establishment of the Fourteenth Establishment,
was altered from Colonial to Indian, and fixed as follows : —
Seven Troops (i at Cavalry Depot, Canterbury, with 20 of
the troop-horses).
24 Officers. 7 Trumpeters.
2 Warrant Officers. 27 Corporals.
37 Sergeants. 461 Privates.
6 Farriers. 456 Troop-horses.
364 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1883-
Coionei— c.w. On the ist May, Major-General C. W. Thompson was
appointed Colonel of the Fourteenth vice General J. Wilkie,
deceased.
On the loth June, Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Morton ex-
changed into the Fourteenth from the Royal Dragoons with
Lieutenant -Colonel Frank Shirley Russell, who went to the
Royal Dragoons, and afterwards commanded that regiment.
On the nth December field manoeuvres commenced at
Secunderabad, in which the Fourteenth took part.
Three men died of their wounds received on service.
1883
This year was passed at Secunderabad.
On the 20th January, Major-General Sir Charles Keyes,
K.C. B., inspected the Fourteenth and was very pleased, and
said he should report most favourably to His Excellency the
Commander-in- Chief in India as to their efficient state.
From the nth to i6th December the Fourteenth were
present at the field manoeuvres under His Excellency General
Sir F. S. Roberts, Bart, V.C., G.C.B., C.I.E., Commander-
in-Chief of the Madras army, and he expressed himself much
pleased with the way the regiment acquitted itself, and
particularly remarked on the good scouting and patrolling
which it performed. The following is an extract from a letter
written by His Excellency (Sir F. Roberts) to Colonel Keith
Fraser, C.M.G. (A.A.G. at the Hx>rse Guards):—
'SNOWDEN, OOTACAMUND, %th August 1884.
' The regiment with whom I have been most impressed is
the 1 4th Hussars: their scouting is far above the average,
and I attribute this in a great measure to the experience
they gained in South Africa, which no doubt gave the men
that self-reliance it is so difficult to acquire on the parade-
ground. At some small manoeuvres near Secunderabad in
1885] THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 365
I882,1 it was a pleasure to see the way the i4th Hussars
worked : wherever you moved you found an hussar scout
watching you, and utterly declining to fight so long as his
orders were to keep touch with the enemy.'
This year Major Kentish left the Fourteenth, and Captain
Richard Garth succeeded him as Major.
On i ;th December, Major-General Sir Charles Keyes,
K.C.B., again inspected the Fourteenth, and said they were in
a very serviceable condition, and he specially remarked on the
conduct of the men since the Fourteenth came under his
command, which he termed ' excellent.'
1884
The regiment remained at Secunderabad.
Four men died of fever during the year. The dep6t re-
mained at Canterbury, where the Commandant of the Cavalry
Depot was Colonel J. C. Le Quesne.
From the 22nd to the 2Qth November the Fourteenth took
part in the camp of exercise held near Secunderabad, under
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of the Madras army
(Sir F. Roberts), and the latter expressed his complete
satisfaction with their conduct and efficiency throughout the
manoeuvres.
1885
This year was passed in the same quarters at Secunderabad
with the usual routine of Indian life.
On the 1 2th and i$th January, Major-General H. N. D.
Prendergast, V.C., C.B., commanding the Hyderabad Subsi-
diary Force, inspected the regiment, and said he would report
1 This reference of Lord Roberts's to the good scouting of the Fourteenth applied
to the manoeuvres held in 1882, apparently.
366 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1885
favourably on its general efficiency for the information of His
Excellency the Commander-in- Chief.
Fatal lightning This was a very hot season, and on the 28th May two
Secunderabad, promising young officers — Lieutenants G. H. Seymour and
1885 May F. D. Bentley-Innes — were suddenly killed by lightning about
3.30 P.M. when playing billiards in the officers' mess. They
had ordered their tandem to drive to a gymkhana, but as
they saw a storm coming on they went back to the mess
to play billiards. Suddenly a flash of lightning struck the
mess-house. Just before it came young Seymour called to
Potter, the mess butler, for a cheroot. The lightning struck
him (Lieutenant Seymour) on the collar stud, ran down and
tore the right seam of his trousers, and tore off the sole of his
right boot. Lieutenant Bentley-Innes was struck on the poll
of the neck. Neither of them spoke after they were struck,
though Surgeon- Major Eraser did all in his power to restore
animation. This sad event cast quite a gloom over the station,
as the two young officers were much liked and respected by all.
The various regiments in cantonment followed at their funeral
next day. An anonymous donor used to send to the regi-
mental sergeant-major of the regiment for sortie time afterwards
each month on the day corresponding to the sad occurrence a
cross of flowers, to be placed by their graves.
On the 1 5th June, Lieutenant-Colonel Knox became
Brevet-Colonel, and Lieutenant-Colonel Morton obtained the
same rank on the ist July.
Lieutenant- Colonel J . H. Knox, commanding the regiment, died very
c? Rtforton. suddenly of hepatitis (liver disease) on the 24th October; and
Colonel C. F. Morton, from second Lieutenant-Colonel, suc-
ceeded to the command.
Major J. Dennis became second Lieutenant-Colonel on the
25th October; and Major J. Kentish from half-pay came
back to the regiment.
Four men died of fever and two of liver disease during
this year.
The depot troop under Captain English and Lieutenant
1 886] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 367
Stoughton moved from Canterbury to Colchester on the 3rd
December, and was attached to the provisional depot there,
under the command of Colonel E. A. Gore.
1886
This year the order came for the regiment to go home to Regiment
England after eleven years' service in India and South Africa. orderedhome-
Major-General B. L. Gordon, C.B., inspected at Secundera-
bad on February the i5th, i6th, and i7th.
Previous to the departure of the Fourteenth for England
the following Divisional Order, dated Secunderabad, 22nd
October 1886, was issued by Brigadier-General P. A. Carnegy,
commanding at Secunderabad : — ., L
'The 1 4th King's Hussars being about to leave for
England, the Brigadier-General commanding, in bidding the
regiment farewell, has much pleasure in placing on record the
high opinion he entertains of this distinguished corps. During
the five years that the Fourteenth have been in the command,
the conduct of all ranks has been exceptionally good, and an
example to the remainder of the garrison. On parade also,
both officers and men have well upheld the character of the
corps for smartness and dash. General Carnegy congratulates
Colonel Morton in taking with him a body of non-commis-
sioned officers and men who, he feels certain, will win from
the home authorities the same approbation for their soldierly
qualities as they have done from those in this country.'
On the 3Oth October the regiment, under Colonel C. F. Regiment
Morton, embarked at Bombay, and sailed in H.M.S. Serapis
for England, arriving 23rd November, and, landing at Ports-
mouth on the 25th November, proceeded thence by rail to
Shorncliffe, there to be stationed.
The voyage in H.M.S. Serapis was a very pleasant one,
and the previous journey of the regiment (without horses)
from Secunderabad to Bombay was accomplished by rail,
halting at Wadi and Poona en route.
368 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1886
Roll of Officers embarked in H.M.S. ' Serapis?
Lieutenant-Colonel — Brevet- Colonel C. F. Morton, com-
manding.
Majors — T. E. S. Hickman.
R. Garth.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon-
ourable G. H. Gough.
Captains — A. C. King.
C. E. S. Hemery.
Lieutenants — H. W. Mitchell.
H. Kirk.
A. B. Broadhurst.
L. A. Stransham.
L. J. Richardson.
J. P. Miller.
S. Robertson.
J. Murray.
Captain and Adjutant — G. H. C. Hamilton.
Major and Paymaster — H. J. Meares.
Quartermaster — F. Mugford.
Strength of non-commissioned officers and men embarked,
405 ; officers' wives, 3 ; children, 3 ; soldiers' wives, 24 ;
children, 55.
The depot troop under Captain English and Lieutenant
Stoughton was moved from Colchester to Shorncliffe on the
3ist May, arriving at the latter place on the 5th June, and
continued being attached to Colonel Gore's Provisional
Cavalry Depot (which had been removed from Colchester)
until the arrival of the service troops from India, when it
joined headquarters at Shorncliffe, and the strength of the
Fourteenth towards the end of the year was 536 non-com-
missioned officers and men, with 201 troop-horses transferred
New arms and from the 7th Hussars. The whole of the regimental arms,
equipment
issued at accoutrements, saddlery, and equipment were now thoroughly
inspected under the superintendence of Captain Hawes of
i88;] THE 14711 (KING'S) HUSSARS 369
the India Office, and new stores and equipment were supplied Martini-Henry
to replace all articles of obsolete pattern. A large quantity of0'
new saddlery also was issued, and the regiment was armed
with the new pattern solid-hiked sword and new Martini-
Henry carbines, the non-commissioned officers receiving a new
pattern revolver.
On the 1 7th November, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Dennis
exchanged to the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) ; and
Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Hamilton from the Carabiniers
joined the i4th Hussars as 2nd Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) the Honourable G. H.
Gough became Major.
1887
The Fourteenth remained at Shorncliffe in huts the
whole of this year. On the i3th April there was a brigade
parade of all the troops in camp at Shorncliffe under
Colonel Sir Baker Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., A.D.C.,
commanding the troops, for the inspection of H.R.H. the
Duke of Cambridge, Commanding-in-Chief, in which the
Fourteenth took part; and after the review H.R.H. the Duke
of Cambridge inspected all the remounts recently purchased
by Colonel C. F. Morton for the regiment, to complete the
establishment.
The Fourteenth were now reduced to the home establish- Establishment
ment, and consisted of 8 troops, 24 officers, 2 warrant officers, 51«7?ed>
41 sergeants, 8 farriers, 8 trumpeters, 32 corporals, 378
privates, and 300 troop-horses.
Colonel Sir Baker Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., A.D.C.,
commanding the troops, made his inspection on the 29th and
Cruppers
On the ist May the use of cruppers was discontinued. abolished.
A wing of the Fourteenth took part in the Queen's Jubilee
Review at Aldershot on the 9th July, being employed in
2 A
370 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1887
keeping the ground, and afterwards returned by march route
to Shorncliffe.
Lieutenant- On the ist July, Colonel Morton was placed on half-pay,
Hamilton. and Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Hamilton was appointed to
command the regiment. The second Lieutenant-Colonelcy
was reduced from this date.
Firing team On the 23rd July, at Wimbledon, the regimental firing
bridg?shleid team, consisting of Troop Sergeant-Major Carr, Sergeant
at Wimbledon. Upton, Private Fairbrass, and Private Upton, won the Royal
Cambridge Challenge Shield, which is annually competed for
by mounted teams from cavalry regiments in Great Britain
and Ireland.
On the roth and nth August, Major-General Sir D.
Drury Lowe, K.C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry, made his
annual inspection of the Fourteenth at Shorncliffe. Strength
— 23 officers, 2 warrant officers, 491 non-commissioned officers
and men, 300 troop-horses, 1 6 officers' chargers.
On the 6th October the regiment took part in the field
operations carried out by the troops composing the Dover and
Shorncliffe garrisons, concluding with a march-past near the
Royal Oak, on the Dover and Folkestone road, before H.R.H.
the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief.
Establishment The establishment of the regiment underwent several
changes this year. On the ist April the number of troop-
horses was reduced from 300 to 250, and in consequence
upwards of 40 troop-horses had to be transferred to the
1 9th Hussars in the autumn; but on the ist October the
establishment was again augmented to 300, and fresh remounts
had consequently to be procured and trained afresh.
Captain Augustus John English became Major, and
Captain Henry Wilmot Mitchell was appointed Adjutant
The establishment was fixed from the ist April 1887 at —
Colonel, . . . . (i)
Lieutenant-Colonel, . . . i
Majors, ..... 3
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 371
Captains, . . if." . •"; 6
Lieutenants,. . ; '. •„'•'• 8
Second Lieutenants, . . . 3
Adjutant, . . . . / i
Riding-master, . . . . i
Quartermaster, . . . . i
Total, . . 24 officers.
Warrant officers, . , ,, . . 2
Sergeants, ^ . ,.' ., 49
Rank and file, . t.^ , , 410
Total, . . 485 all ranks.
1888
On the 2nd April the Fourteenth took part in the Easter
Monday volunteer review, combined with manoeuvres of the
regular troops of the South- Eastern District, between Folke-
stone and Dover; also a march-past at Dover before H.R.H.
the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief. Major-General
Philip Smith, C.B., commanding the Home District, had the
command of the regulars and volunteers on this occasion.
On the 3rd April the troops at Shorncliffe Camp under the
command of Colonel Sir Baker Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.,
A.D.C., paraded for a review held by Field-Marshal H.R. H.
the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, in which the
Fourteenth took part. Subsequently His Royal Highness saw
the cavalry, consisting of the i4th Hussars and a wing of the
2Oth Hussars, exercised in brigade movements under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Graves, 2oth Hussars, on which occasion
His Royal Highness was pleased to express to Lieutenant-
Colonel Hamilton, through the officer commanding the cavalry,
how pleased he was at the appearance of the Fourteenth and
the way in which it drilled.
His Royal Highness afterwards inspected the remounts
372 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1888
which had recently joined from the Army Remount Dep6t,
and subsequently, attended by his Staff, honoured the
officers of the Fourteenth by lunching with them in their
mess. Major-General Sir Redvers Duller, V.C., K.C. B.,
Quartermaster-General ; Major-General Montgomery Moore,
Commanding the South- Eastern District; Colonel Adolphus
Stevens, A.D.C. to His Royal Highness ; and Colonel Sir
Baker Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., A.D.C., commanding at
Shorncliffe, were among those present.
On the 2nd May, Colonel Sir Baker Russell, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., A.D.C., commanding the troops at Shorncliffe,
inspected the Fourteenth, and on the 24th May he saw them
exercised in outpost duties between Shorncliffe and Hythe,
and expressed on both occasions his high satisfaction with
all he saw.
On the 7th May a slight reduction in the numbers of the
establishment of the non-commissioned officers and men took
effect.
AtAidershot. On the 4th June the Fourteenth marched *to Aldershot,
and encamped on Cove Common, near Farnborough, on the
9th June. A depot was left at Shorncliffe in charge of Riding-
master Odium.
On the nth June, Major-General Sir Drury Lowe, K.C.B.,
inspected the Fourteenth in 'marching order/ and expressed
his full satisfaction at the appearance of the men and horses
and with the general turn-out of the regiment.
On the 6th July, Captain C. E. S. Hemery died at Barnet
of cerebral congestion. He was suddenly taken ill a few weeks
previously, when driving the regimental coach at Red Hill.
Lieutenant - Colonel Hamilton and the other officers from
Aldershot attended his funeral at Barnet, where the family
of the deceased officer resided.
On the 7th July the Fourteenth took part in a review at
Aldershot, under Field-Marshal H.R.H.the Duke of Cambridge,
Commander-in-Chief.
This was an unusually wet season, and both men and horses
1889] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 373
were much exposed to the inclement weather in their camp, Wet season
which was broken up towards the end of July; and after the"1
regiment had taken part in the usual summer drills, it proceeded
to Brighton and Hilsea to be quartered. Four troops, ' B,' ' D,' At Brighton
' H,' and ' K,' under Major Garth, went to Hilsea ; and 4, 'A,'a
' C,' ' E,' and ' G/ with headquarters, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Hamilton, arrived at Preston Barracks, Brighton, on the
25th July.
On the Qth and loth October, Major- General Sir D. Lowe,
K.C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry in Great Britain, in-
spected the Fourteenth at Brighton.
On the 1 3th October, 2 troops (' B ' and ' D ') under Major
Garth joined headquarters at Brighton, leaving only 2 troops
(' H ' and ' K ') under Captain King at Hilsea.
Major R. Garth exchanged into the 7th (Princess Royal's)
Dragoon Guards, and Major M. A. Burke, an officer who had
seen active service in Egypt with the 7th Dragoon Guards,
came to the Fourteenth. Lieutenant Sir J. P. Miller, Bart.,
was appointed Adjutant, ist September.
1889
On ist January the Regimental Almanack, which had been The Regi-
originally started in India several years ago by Schoolmaster Almanack.
Carnegie, but had not been continued since ist January 1886,
was thoroughly revised and corrected throughout by Lieutenant-
Colonel H. B. Hamilton, and published for him as a copyright
by Warrington and Co., Garrick Street, London, in an entirely
new form, both on sheets of cardboard for the barrack-rooms,
and also in book-form for officers and others. The commanding
officer requested that a copy might always be kept hung up in
each barrack-room, so that all ranks might have an opportunity
of reading the exploits of their regiment since its first origin up
to the present time ; and he also expressed a hope that future
commanding officers would continue to republish the Almanack
annually, corrected up to date from the ' Regimental Digest
374 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1889
of Services ' kept in the orderly-room. The Almanack is so
arranged as to present to view a short history of the Fourteenth,
giving items of information for each day in the year. It also
contains a roll of the officers, lists of former Colonels and
Lieutenant-Colonels, with other details showing the present
quarters and establishment, so as to interest officers and men
in their regiment and to foster esprit de corps. Since 1889 it
has been generally reprinted annually with up-to-date additions,
and has become quite a regimental institution. A reprint of
the Almanack for 1891 is inserted in this book.1
Uniform of During this year the dress of the bandsmen, which had
the band. i i , r • i • -t
latterly been ot a regimental pattern, was assimilated to one
uniform pattern in all hussar regiments by order of the Adjutant-
General to the Forces.
Officers' Bali On 1 3th February the officers grave a errand full-dress ball
at Pavilion, i r» •!• ™ • i 1-1 111 i r
Brighton, at the ravilion, Brighton, which was attended by upwards of
February I3th. fou|.
On the 2nd and 3rd May, Major-General Montgomery
Moore, commanding the South- Eastern District, made his
annual inspection of the Fourteenth at Brighton. On the first
day he saw a field-day of the regiment on the drill field in
' field-day order.' Afterwards the Major-General went round
the barracks, and in the afternoon he had a general foot
parade, and then examined all the regimental and troop books
at the orderly-room. On the second day he saw ' G ' troop at
musketry and test firing on the rifle ranges.
The Major-General was good enough to express his great
satisfaction with the excellent turn-out, and with the general
set-up and smartness of officers and men, both on parade
and in the field.
At Aldershot. In June the regiment marched from Brighton and Hilsea
to Aldershot for summer drills, and on the 28th June once more
encamped on Cove Common, near Farnborough. A depot was
left at Preston Barracks, Brighton, under Captain Fraser.
On the 2nd July, at Aldershot, Major-General Sir Drury
1 See page 431, etc.
1889] THE 14™ (KING'S) HUSSARS 375
Lowe, K.C.B., inspected the regiment in 'drill order' near its
camp, and was satisfied with what he saw.
In July the Fourteenth formed part of a cavalry column under At
Colonel E. Wood, C.B., which consisted of i6th Lancers under
Lieutenant-Colonel Davison, i4th Hussars under Lieutenant-
Colonel Hamilton, igth Hussars under Colonel French,1 with
4H' Battery Royal Horse Artillery, and proceeded to Wooimer
Forest for outpost and reconnaissance duties, returning after a
few days to their former encampment at Aldershot. The column
was encamped at Wooimer from the 8th to the i3th July ; each
regiment had 2 squadrons made up to war strength.
On the 23rd July the Fourteenth took part in a review of
Cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery, before Field-Marshal
H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, in the
Long Valley and Eelmore Plain, Aldershot.
On the 7th August the regiment had the honour of taking Reviewed by
part in the extensive sham fight and review of troops on the
Fox Hills, near Aldershot, before H.I.M. William IL, Emperor
of Germany and King of Prussia, accompanied by the Head-
quarters Staff and foreign representatives.
His Majesty was pleased to express his appreciation of the
general appearance of the troops, as well as of the soldierlike
manner in which the manoeuvres were carried out by them, and
he requested H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief to convey this
to the troops composing the Aldershot Division, and the other
regiments, batteries, and battalions attached thereto who took
part in the field-day at Aldershot, together with His Majesty's
thanks to Lieutenant-General Sir H. E. Wood, V.C., K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., and the officers and troops which were under his
command on this occasion.
His Majesty was much struck with the efficiency in the
field shown by the militia battalions and the volunteers.
This year the position of Regimental Paymaster-Sergeant Establishment.
was abolished, as well as that of Regimental Armourer-
Sergeant. The former was transferred to the Army Pay
1 Afterwards Major-General Sir J. D. P. French, K.C.B.
376 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1890
Department, and the latter became a member of the Corps
of Armourer-Sergeants, but still remained attached to the
regiment for duty.
At Brighton On the 9th August the Fourteenth left Aldershot for Brighton
Illsea- and Hilsea — 6 troops and headquarters stationed at Brighton,
under Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton ; 2 troops ('A' and 'B') at
Hilsea, under Captains Kirk and R. M. Richardson.
On the 1 9th September the regiment was inspected at
Brighton and Hilsea by Major-General Sir D. Drury Lowe,
K.C.B., Inspector-General of Cavalry.
On the 1 6th December, Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel)
the Honourable G. H. Gough was promoted Brevet-Colonel.
1890
On the 1 5th January, second Lieutenant H. M. Tritton
died from an accident in the hunting-field at Chailey, near
Lewes. The untimely death of this popular and promising
young officer was deeply regretted by all ranks, and the whole
six troops of the Fourteenth mounted, in 'review order,'
escorted his remains to a special service at St. Martin's Church,
Brighton, and thence to the railway station for removal to
Plympton, Devon, where they were interred in the family vault.
On the 1 7th March, Lieutenant- Colonel Hamilton received
the brevet rank of Colonel. Colonel the Honourable G. H.
Gough (senior major of the regiment), who had been serving
on the staff since October 1887 as Deputy- Assistant Adjutant
and Quartermaster-General in the Curragh District, rejoined
the 1 4th Hussars for regimental duty on ist January.
On 8th and 9th May, Major-General M. Moore, commanding
South- Eastern District, inspected the Fourteenth at Brighton.
First day he saw a mounted parade in ' field-day order,'
when the usual parade movements followed by field movements
and some dismounted work were executed. In the afternoon
foot parade in 'drill order,' and the Major-General went
through the barracks and stables, including the regimental
school and married quarters.
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Second day he inspected the books, and also held a general
kit and necessaries inspection of the whole regiment, going
through each troop. Major- General Moore expressed his
entire satisfaction with the appearance of the Fourteenth on
both parades, as well as with the condition of the horses and
the manner in which the parade and field movements were
executed.
On the Queen's Birthday (24th May) the regiment marched Queen's
in review order to Preston Park, where i squadron under Panuufheid in
Major Burke dismounted and fired a feu de joie, then re-
mounted, and the 3 squadrons marched past at the walk, trot, l89°-
and gallop, and performed the sword exercise and pursuing
practice, much to the delight of several thousands of the inhabi-
tants, the Mayor of Brighton having kindly granted the use of
the park on the suggestion of Colonel Hamilton.
On the 6th June, 'Sainfoin,' a chestnut colt, owned by 'Sainfoin'
Captain and Adjutant Sir James P. Miller, Bart, won the™b^e
Derby at Epsom. In 1884, Sir John Willoughby, Bart, an 6th Ju"e l89°-
officer of the Royal Horse Guards, ran a dead heat for the
Derby with his brown colt ' Harvester,' against Mr. J.
Hammond's bay colt 'St. Gatien,' but it is believed there is
no other instance of an officer of the army on full pay winning
the Derby.
On the 1 4th July, Major-General Sir D. Drury Lowe,
K.C.B., Inspector- General of Cavalry, inspected the Fourteenth
in barracks at Brighton. He expressed to Colonel Hamilton
his great satisfaction at the improvement he noticed in the
riding of the non-commissioned officers and men since his
last inspection ; and after the foot parade he had the regiment
formed up three sides of a square, and addressed it in com-
plimentary terms.
On the 2Qth July the regimental firing team, consisting of Firing team
Farrier-Sergeant Pollard, Sergeant Potter, Private Davis, and bridge shield
Private Upton, won the Royal Cambridge Challenge Shield at Bis]ey»
' . ** second time.
at the Annual Army Rifle Meeting at Bisley, for the second
time.
378
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1890
Tournaments
held in Preston
Park.
At Aldershot.
Cavalry
manoeuvres
in Berkshire.
Whilst quartered at Brighton the Fourteenth gave three
grand military tournaments, combined with pony races, at
their annual athletic sports, in the Preston Park, which were
witnessed by thousands of spectators. Captain and Adjutant
Sir James Miller, Bart, was the honorary secretary and
manager, and the results were eminently satisfactory, as a
substantial balance, after paying all expenses, remained to
the credit of the committee, which was handed over by
the regiment to the Mayor of Brighton for distribution
amongst the local charities. The tournaments took place on
26th September 1888, 5th September 1889, and 2ist August
1890.
At the end of August the Fourteenth left Brighton and
Hilsea, and were encamped at Aldershot on Jersey Brow, near
Farnborough, on the 2nd September, the squadron from
Hilsea having also arrived, preparatory to taking part in the
great cavalry manoeuvres about to take place in Berkshire,
under Lieutenant-General Sir H. E. Wood, V.C., G.C.B.,
Director of Manoeuvres.
The regiment was placed in the ist Cavalry Brigade with
the 8th Hussars, under Lieutenant-Colonel St Quentin, the
Brigadier being Major-General J. A. Le Quesne, and the
Cavalry Division was commanded by Major-General Sir Baker
Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.
On the 8th September the brigade marched to Churm
Camp.
On the loth September, owing to scarcity of water-supply,
the Fourteenth shifted its camp to Blewbury.
On the 1 3th the brigade was encamped at Uffington,
where the Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by Colonel Lord
Wantage, V.C., Lord- Lieutenant of Berkshire, and his staff,
visited the encampment, and inspected the horse lines.
On the 1 6th September there was a grand review and
march-past of the Cavalry Division on Chilton Downs, in
presence of the Commander-in-Chief (H.R.H. the Duke of
Cambridge), Lord Wantage, and a vast assemblage of spec-
1890] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 379
tators ; and on 2Oth September, the manoeuvres having come
to an end, the regiments commenced to march back to Alder-
shot and their other destinations. The Fourteenth halted
at Crookham Camp, and on the 22nd September arrived at
their former camping-ground on Jersey Brow, Farnborough.
On 23rd September, Lieutenant -General Sir H. E.
Wood, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., commanding the Aldershot
Division, Major-General Sir Baker Russell, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.,
commanding the Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot, and Major-
General J. C. Le Quesne, commanding ist Brigade, Cavalry
Manoeuvres, inspected the regiment in ' watering-order ' ; and
the Lieutenant-General commanding, as well as both the
Major -Generals, complimented Colonel Hamilton on the
smart appearance of the men and the excellent condition of
the horses, after their recent hard work, which the Lieu-
tenant-General considered was owing to the good care taken
of them in camp, and the excellent regimental watering arrange-
ments.
On 25th September the whole regiment marched to At Hounsiow.
Hounslow, there to be quartered, detaching ' E ' troop to
Hampton Court under Captain Stanhope, and ' G ' troop to
Kensington Palace Barracks under Major Burke.
At the Royal Naval Exhibition held this year in London, Musical ride at
the Fourteenth supplied the men and horses for the musical
ride, and during the continuance of the exhibition these men
and horses were quartered in the Kensington Barracks.
On 8th October, Major-General Sir Drury Lowe, K.C.B.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, made his annual inspection of
the Fourteenth in the field. They paraded as strong as
possible, in 'home marching- order,' on Hounslow Heath,
when the usual parade and marching-past movements were
executed ; and subsequently the commanding officer exercised
the regiment in a succession of field movements and manoeuvres
at a rapid pace. After this the Major-General saw some of
the senior officers drill the regiment, and finished the inspec-
tion with some outpost work under the second-in-command.
380 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1891
At the conclusion, Sir Drury Lowe had the squadrons formed
in close column, when he addressed Colonel Hamilton at the
head of the regiment, the officers, warrant officers, non-
commissioned officers and men present, expressing his ap-
proval of what he had seen, and particularly alluding to the
manifest improvement he noticed throughout the regiment
since his last inspection in the field a year ago.
The Inspector- General afterwards lunched with the officers,
and this concluded his annual inspection, commenced at
Brighton in July.
Establishment This year (from ist April) a Sergeant- Master-Tailor was
changes, 1890. acjje(j to ^ establishment of the regiment, and Mr. Read,
who for some time previously had most successfully carried
out the duties of civilian master-tailor to the regiment, was
enlisted and appointed Sergeant- Master-Tailor. An additional
non-commissioned officer was also appointed to carry out the
extra clerking work which had devolved on the orderly-room
staff since the abolition of the post of Paymaster- Sergeant.
The new clerk was given the title of orderly-room clerk,
with rank of sergeant, and the former orderly-room clerk
was styled for the future 'Orderly-room Sergeant.'
On nth October, Major-General P. Smith, C.B., com-
manding Home District, made his inspection in barracks, and
held a foot parade. He subsequently expressed himself highly
pleased with the efficient appearance of the regiment, and
the excellent state of everything he had seen within barracks
and on parade.
Uniform. A new pattern blue serge frock and service-cap were
issued this year to cavalry regiments, for use at manoeuvres
and for drill purposes.
officers' dress. An officers' ' dress-call ' for mess was introduced by Colonel
call for mess T
introduced. H. J3. Hamilton, and adopted by the regiment.
1891
' G ' troop at Kensington, under Major Burke, was moved
1891] THE HTM (KING'S) HUSSARS 381
into headquarters at Hounslow in the beginning of the year,
and replaced by 'A' troop under Captain J. Murray.
On 1 8th April, Major- General P. Smith, C.B., commanding
Home District, inspected the Fourteenth at Hounslow. He
went through every portion of the barracks, and afterwards had
a foot parade, at which the new clothing for 1891, just issued,
was worn by the non-commissioned officers and men. The
Major-General particularly remarked as to the excellent cut
and fit of the tunics and overalls, and he praised the general
smartness of the turn-out. Subsequently he addressed the
regiment formed in quarter-column of squadrons, in very
complimentary terms, and added these words : ' The regiment
is in excellent order, and the marching and drill are very
good/
On the 6th May, Colonel H. B. Hamilton introduced a Regimental
book of regimental 'Standing Orders' for the use of the orders >ng
regiment, none having previously existed, so far as was known
at the time, and the want of such a book being very much felt
and remarked on by inspecting generals on several occasions.
There were no traces or mention of any previous code of
standing orders preserved in the regiment, and none had
existed in the memory of any one living who had previously
served in the Fourteenth.1 Extracts from the 'Standing Orders'
were read aloud to the regiment on several successive parades
in presence of the commanding officer at Hounslow, and on
3ist May the ' Standing Orders ' were printed and published
by W. Mitchell and Co., of 10 Craig's Court, London, with
the following preface : —
' As far as can be ascertained, these are the first ' Standing
Orders' of the i4th (King's) Hussars which have ever existed,
and they are now published as containing the most important
regimental permanent orders on which the present system of
the regiment is based. They do not pretend to be complete
1 It has since been ascertained that from 1784 to 1792 an excellent code of
regimental ' Standing Orders' did exist, but no traces of them are to be found. (See
PP- 36, 37, and 50, 51.)
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[1891
Lieutenant-
4th July 1891.
in any way ; but it is hoped they will prove useful both to old
and young soldiers. Every officer, troop sergeant-major, and
sergeant of the regiment, is expected to keep a copy, both for
his own guidance and to enable him to direct those under him
in their duties. HENRY B. HAMILTON, Colonel,
'Commanding i4th (King's) Hussars.
'HOUNSLOW BARRACKS, $\st May 1891.'
On 2Oth May, 4 troops under Major (Brevet-Colonel) the
Honourable G. H. Gough marched to Aldershot to undergo
their annual course of musketry training. They returned to
Hounslow on 6th June, and on the 8th, 2 troops under Captain
Kirk proceeded to Aldershot for the same purpose, returning
to Hounslow on 24th June. The detachments at Kensington
and Hampton Court had recently rejoined headquarters, their
places being taken at both those stations by detachments of
the Royal Horse Guards (Blue).
In June the Fourteenth took part in a cavalry brigade field-
day on Wimbledon Common under Major-General P. Smith,
C.B., commanding Home District, with the Household
Cavalry, in which Colonel Charles Needham, ist Life Guards,
acted as Brigadier.
On 26th June, Major-General J. Keith Fraser, C.M.G.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, made a minute inspection of the
regiment in barracks, going through the troop-stables, troop-
rooms, regimental institutes, workshops, etc. etc., and after-
wards carefully examined the regimental and troop books, and
the recently promulgated 'Standing Orders.' This completed
the first day of his annual inspection of the regiment.
On ist July, Colonel H. B. Hamilton retired on half-pay
after four years in command of the regiment, and Major the
Honourable G. H. Gough (Brevet-Colonel) succeeded him.
Captain A. C. King became Major in succession, and Major
A. J. English became second in command.
Upon the occasion of the state visit of His Imperial
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Majesty the German Emperor (William n.) to England, a
detachment of the i4th (King's) Hussars (strength 10 officers,
1 60 men, and the band) marched from Hounslow to Windsor
to keep the streets. The band paraded with their new drum-
banners, presented to the regiment by Captain and Adjutant
Sir James P. Miller, Bart., on which the device of the
regimental badge, ' The Prussian Eagle,' is conspicuous.
Upon the occasion of the state visit of H.I.M. the German
Emperor to the Guildhall, the regiment marched from Houns-
low to London to keep the streets from Buckingham Palace
and Pall Mall to the Haymarket.
Upon the occasion of the review of troops (24,000, nth July 1891.
principally volunteers) by the German Emperor on Wimbledon
Common, the regiment marched from Hounslow to Wimbledon
to keep the ground. On the same evening the regiment found
a travelling escort of 14 non-commissioned officers and men,
under command of Captain L. J. Richardson, to escort the
Emperor and Empress from the Crystal Palace, at Sydenham,
to Buckingham Palace. The Emperor expressed to the officer
in command his very keen approbation with the manner
the duty had been performed, and especially noticed the
distinctive badge of the regiment, 'The Prussian Eagle.'1 He
subsequently sent his signed photograph to Captain L. J.
Richardson.
On the 1 4th July the regiment proceeded by march route At Aidershot.
from Hounslow to Aidershot, under command of Colonel the
Honourable G. H. Gough, for summer drills, and encamped at
Bourley, being joined in brigade (2nd Cavalry Brigade) with
the 2nd Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards (Blue), Major-
General J. C. Le Quesne being the Brigadier of the 2nd
Brigade, and Major-General Keith Eraser, C.M.G., Inspector-
General of Cavalry, was in command of the Cavalry Division.
On 1 6th July the Fourteenth, under Colonel Gough, took Reviewed by
part in the review of the Aidershot Division by Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, before whom they marched past, strength of
1 This badge was granted in 1798. See p. 49.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1891
Firing team
wins
Cambridge
Challenge
Shield for
third time.
regiment on parade being 17 officers, 219 non-commissioned
officers and men.
On the 22nd July the regiment took part in a cavalry field-
day on the Fox Hills, under H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge,
Commander-in-Chief, the reconnoitring squadrons towards the
Fox Hills being furnished by the I4th Hussars. At the con-
clusion of the operations His Royal Highness's remarks were
very complimentary to all.
On the 24th July the regimental firing team, consisting of
Farrier- Sergeant Pollard, Sergeant Potter, Private Davis, and
Private Upton, once more, for the third time in five years,
and the second time in succession, won the Royal Cambridge
Challenge Shield at the Annual Army Rifle Meeting at
Bisley.
From the 24th July to the 3rd August the regiment, as
part of the 2nd Brigade, was encamped in Woolmer Forest.
On the 4th August, headquarters, with 'A,' ' B/ ' C,' and ' D '
troops, marched from Aldershot to Leeds by squadrons ; ' H ' and
' K ' troops went to Birmingham, under Captains King and
Robertson; '£' and 'G' troops remained to go through their
annual musketry practice under Major Burke, and subsequently
At Leeds and marched to join the headquarters at Leeds on the i8th August,
arriving on the 3ist. The headquarters reached Leeds on the
1 9th, and the squadron for Birmingham arrived on the i2th.
The regiment was inspected in the field by Major-General
J. K. Fraser, C.M.G., Inspector- General of Cavalry, on the
ist September, at Leeds. This concluded his annual inspection,
commenced on the 26th June at Hounslow.
On the 1 8th September the regiment marched to York, and
on the 1 9th September it was inspected, together with the
Royal Dragoons, on Knavesmire, by Field-Marshal H.R.H.
the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, returning to
Leeds on the evening of the review. H.R.H. conveyed to
the regiment the expression of his entire satisfaction with its
turn-out and drill.
During this year a reduction (dated ist April) in
Birmingham.
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the establishment of the regiment took place, which was Establishment
fixed at- ;C8d9urd'
8 Troops. 33 Corporals.
24 Officers. 4 Shoeing-smiths.
2 Warrant officers. 300 Privates.
40 Sergeants. 58 Officers' chargers.
8 Farriers. 280 Troop-horses.
8 Trumpeters.
1892
The Fourteenth remained at Leeds and Birmingham till
June.
The squadron organisation was introduced into the cavalry squadron
on the ist April, and the 4 squadrons distinguished as ' A,' 'B/
' C/ and ' D ' squadrons.
' A ' and ' B ' troops became ' A ' squadron.
' C ' and ' D ' troops became ' B ' squadron.
' E ' and ' G ' troops became ' C ' squadron.
' H ' and ' K ' troops became ' D ' squadron.
On the 25th April, Major-General H. C. Wilkinson, C. B.,
commanding the North-Eastern District, inspected the regiment
at Leeds, and expressed himself fully satisfied.
On the 4th June the regiment marched to York, and was
encamped in the Infantry Barracks, and practised brigade drill
on the Knavesmire with the Royal Dragoons from the 6th to
the loth June, under the superintendence of the Major-General
commanding the North-Eastern District.
On the i ith June, 3 squadrons ('A,' 'B,'and ' C ') proceeded AtStrensaii
to Strensall Camp for summer drills. On the 3Oth June, ' D '
squadron left Birmingham and reached Manchester on the 2nd
July, and occupied quarters in Hulme Barracks. The depot
was left at Leeds till the 27th June, after the headquarters
had proceeded to Strensall, when it proceeded to Manchester,
the mounted portion reaching Hulme Barracks on the 3rd
July.
2 B
386 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1893
On the 1 3th July, Major-General J. K. Fraser, C.M.G.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, inspected the Fourteenth on
Knavesmire, York.
Establishment On the 26th July the establishment was altered and
siightiy,te( augmented, to date from ist April as follows : —
1892.
4 Squadrons. 8 Trumpeters.
24 Officers. 33 Corporals.
2 Warrant officers. 328 Privates.
40 Sergeants. 58 Officers' chargers.
8 Farriers. 280 Troop-horses.
At Manchester. On 12th August the 3 squadrons from Strensall Camp
arrived at Hulme Barracks, Manchester.
On 2nd September, as serious riots were apprehended at
Winsford, a party of 166 non-commissioned officers and men,
under Captains L. J. Richardson and Murray, proceeded dis-
mounted by special train at 6.40 P.M. to the scene of disturbance.
Their arrival put an end to the riot, and the party returned to
headquarters on the 6th September. A telegram received
from the Chief Constable of Cheshire on the 2nd September
was the only warning given to the regiment. The Major-
General commanding the North- Western District expressed
his satisfaction at the promptitude shown and the good service
rendered.
On the 3Oth September the regiment was inspected by
Major-General Julian Hall, commanding the North- Western
District. He saw a foot parade, and expressed his satisfaction.
Captain E. J. Tickell was appointed Adjutant.
1893
The Fourteenth remained this year in Hulme Barracks,
Manchester.
On the 1 7th and i8th April, Major-General Julian Hall,
commanding the North-Western District, made his annual
inspection of the regiment.
1893] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 387
First day, barracks generally and foot parade.
Second day, mounted parade on Manchester racecourse.
He expressed his unqualified satisfaction with all he had
seen.
On 4th and 5th May, Major-General J. K. Eraser, C.M.G.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, inspected the regiment in riding-
school, and held a foot parade.
On the 1 3th July, Major-General J. K. Eraser, C.M.G.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, inspected the regiment in the
field. After parade movements and field movements in Trafford
Park, the Inspector-General witnessed ' B ' squadron swimming
their horses over a piece of water. The result of the inspection
was thoroughly satisfactory.
On the 1 8th August a telegram came whilst the regimental Detachments
, .& . went to
sports were in progress, ordering i squadron, strength 100 men Newport, etc.,
and horses, to proceed in aid of the civil power to Newport, fo
Monmouthshire. Parts of 'A' and 'B' squadrons, under Captain
Gilbert Hamilton, proceeded by train, arriving at Newport at
4.30 A.M. on the 1 9th, and were divided into 4 detachments
at Crumlin, Pontypridd, Aberaman, and Bridgend. A large
force of infantry was also employed. This decided action on
the part of the authorities checkmated the rioters throughout
the disturbed districts, who eventually went back to their work
by the end of September.
On the 9th September this detachment returned to Man-
chester.
On the 1 2th September, Major-General William Arbuthnot,
C.B., who formerly commanded the Fourteenth, died at Tooting,
and was buried in London. Colonel the Honourable G. H.
Gough and a party of officers and non-commissioned officers
of the regiment proceeded there to attend his funeral, which
took place on the i6th, in Brompton Cemetery.
On 1 6th September, 40 men and horses of ' D ' squadron, Detachments
under Captain Stacey and Lieutenant Brooksbank, went to foTc
Holy well, Flint, to be billeted there, owing to expected dis-
turbances in the Bettisfield district.
388 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1894
On the 22nd September this party proceeded to Mold,
where the Buckley miners were creating disturbances, and
rejoined headquarters on i7th October. The Chief Constable
of the county wrote as to the conduct of the men — ' I may say
that their behaviour has won the respect of all classes.'
On 25th October, 35 men and horses of 'C ' squadron went
by rail to Wrexham to be billeted there, under Captain Gage
and Lieutenant Henry, during the great coal strike. This party
rejoined headquarters at Manchester, after the strike terminated,
on 22nd November.
Martini- In November of this year Martini-Metford carbines and
carbines issued, new swords, pattern 90, of English make, were issued to the
regiment, and the Martini- Henry carbines, issued in 1886-87,
were returned to ordnance stores.
Captain Gilbert H. Claude Hamilton became Major in the
regiment vice M. A. Burke, retired.
1894
In March, Major-General J. K. Eraser, C.M.G., Inspector-
General of Cavalry, made his first day's inspection in barracks,
and saw the rides and a foot parade.
On i6thand i9th April, Major-General J. Hall, command-
ing North- Western District, inspected. On the first day the
regiment carried out a reconnaissance against the i/th Lancers,
quartered at Preston, the point of contact being Bolton-le-
Moors-Hill. The greatest distance traversed was 32 miles;
mean weight carried by troop-horses, 18 stone 8 Ibs. On
the second day of inspection, i9th April, the Major-General
inspected books and barracks, and saw a foot parade, after
which he addressed the regiment in flattering terms.
Strength : — 24 officers ; i warrant officer ; 48 sergeants ;
38 corporals ; 8 trumpeters ; 3 shoeing-smiths ; 338 privates —
total all ranks, 460. Number of officers' chargers, 58 ; troop-
horses, 278.
1894] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 389
On 2ist May 1894, Her Majesty Queen Victoria came to opening of the
Manchester to open the Ship Canal. The nth Hussars and ^aannac^ester
the 2nd King's Liverpool Regiment lined the route of the Royal 2*st Ma?
procession through Manchester and Salford, a distance of 7^
miles. The Queen's escort, furnished by the Fourteenth, was
commanded by Captain R. M. Richardson, accompanied by
Lieutenants Hughes and Eley. For their services on this
occasion the regiment received letters of approbation from the
Chief Constables of Lancashire and Salford, and from the
Mayor of Salford, who wrote : ' I was delighted to witness the
smartness, good-temper, and discipline which your men dis-
played under rather trying circumstances along the route.'
On 26th May, Colonel the Honourable G. H. Gough was
awarded a Companionship of the Order of the Bath.
The Fourteenth remained at Manchester till June, when Ordered to
they proceeded to Ireland as follows :—
On 26th June, 'A' and ' D' squadrons proceeded by march
route towards Liverpool, and embarked at Liverpool in ss.
Leitrim for the North Wall, Dublin, whence they marched to
Waterford and Cahir, arriving at Waterford on 2nd July, Cahir
on 3rd July.
On 30th June, ' B ' squadron and headquarters followed by
the same route, and per ss. Leitrim to Dublin. The ss. Leitrim
broke down on the voyage, and had to be towed into Dublin.
Headquarters reached Cahir on 9th July. 'B' squadron reached At Cahirand
T • -1 .1 T i out-quarters.
Limerick on 9th July.
On 8th July, ' C ' squadron proceeded by similar route to
Liverpool, and sailed thence by ss. Cavan to Dublin, thence by
march route to Fethard (half squadron), arriving i4th, and to
Cahir (half squadron), arriving i6th July.
Two squadrons were at Cahir.
Half a squadron at Fethard.
Half a squadron at Waterford.
One squadron at Limerick.
On 4th August, Major-General J. K. Fraser, C.M.G., In-
spector-General of Cavalry, had the second day of his annual
390 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1895
inspection, commenced in March, and the detachment at
Fethard came in to Cahir for the day of inspection.
On 1 6th August, M aj or- General J. Fryer, C.B., Commanding
Cork District, made an inspection of the Fourteenth at Cahir,
and subsequently he inspected the detachments at Waterford
and Limerick. He went round the barracks in the morning,
and had a marching-order mounted parade in the after-
noon.
During August and September, Colonel the Honourable
G. H. Gough, C.B., and Quartermaster Mugfordwere employed
on temporary staff duties in the cavalry manoeuvres in Berk-
shire, under the command of Major-General J. Keith Fraser,
C.M.G., Inspector- General of Cavalry.
Establishment In October the establishment of the regiment was slightly
ugmented, augmented from 328 to 344 privates, and the number of troop-
1894- horses was increased at the same time from 280 to 300.
The actual strength on 3ist December was 431 non-com-
missioned officers and men, with 298 troop-horses.
Changes in The whole system of army clothing underwent a change
Smy clothing ^s vear> an(^ ^ articles when once issued became the property of
introduced, the soldier. The old system under which all clothing belonged
to the Government, and had to be returned or paid for, was
finally abolished.
Captain H. M. Mitchell became Major vice A. C. King,
retired.
1895
The Fourteenth passed the whole of this year at Cahir and
out-quarters.
On 5th and 6th April, Major-General J. Fryer, C.B.,
commanding Cork District, made his annual inspection of the
regiment at Cahir. He inspected the Fethard detachment
on 3rd April, the detachment at Waterford on 8th April, and
the squadron at Limerick on 9th April. In the morning he
had a foot parade, and went round the barracks ; in the after-
1896] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 391
noon he inspected the troops in the field in 'drill order.' On
the 6th, at Cahir, he saw the riding-school work, gymnasium
class, regimental and troop books, etc. The Major-General's
remarks were very complimentary.
On 1 4th May, Field- Marshal the Right Honourable
Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Commanding
the Forces in Ireland, inspected the headquarters at Cahir.
He saw the regiment mounted, and witnessed a march-past,
then he made a careful tour round barracks, and afterwards
lunched with the officers.
On 28th June, Major-General G. Luck, C.B., Inspector-
General of Cavalry, inspected ' B ' squadron at Limerick. On
the 29th he inspected 'A,' 'C,' and ' D' squadrons in the field
at Cahir. On ist July he had squadron inspection in the
field, each squadron separately, and every man mounted, then
riding-school work ; and in the afternoon he saw the squadrons
separately, one in service marching order, one with stripped
saddles, one without saddles ; then the officers at stick practice ;
then all ranks armed with pistols at dismounted revolver
practice.
Owing to rain on 2nd July the Inspector-General did not
carry out his intended outpost and reconnaissance inspection.
The establishment was fixed as follows : — Establishment,
4 Squadrons. 8 Trumpeters.
24 Officers. 35 Corporals.
2 Warrant officers. 353 Privates.
39 Sergeants. 300 Troop-horses.
8 Farriers.
1896
The Fourteenth remained at Cahir and out-quarters all this
year.
On ist and 2nd April, Major-General J. Fryer, C.B.,
Commanding Cork District, made his annual inspection at
Waterford, Cahir, Fethard, and Limerick. He expressed his
satisfaction with what he saw.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1896
Lieutenant-
At Curragh
Lee-Metford
magazine
carbines
issued, 1896.
On 1 5th, 1 6th, and i yth April, Major-General G. Luck,
C. B., Inspector-General of Cavalry, inspected the regiment at
Limerick, Cahir, and Waterford, but only finished a portion of
his annual inspection, completing it in September.
On ist July, Colonel the Honourable G. H. Gough, C.B.,
after nve years in command, retired on half-pay, when Major
A. J. English became Lieutenant-Colonel, and succeeded to
the command of the Fourteenth.
The Fourteenth went to Curragh Camp for the drill season
s> on ist July, and returned to previous quarters for the winter.
Whilst at Curragh Camp they were encamped in Donelly's
Hollow.
On 3rd August, Lee-Metford magazine carbines, designated
' M.L.M.,' were issued to the regiment, and the Martini-Metford
carbines were returned to ordnance stores.
On 6th August headquarters and 2 squadrons proceeded
en route to Cahir, detaching parties to Fethard and Waterford.
On 7th August, i squadron proceeded to the Kilkenny field
manoeuvres, under Captain Brown, from the Curragh Camp.
On nth August detachments of the regiment were sent to
Carrick-on-Suir and Clogheen.
On i yth, 1 8th, and i9th August, Field-Marshal the Right
Honourable Lord Roberts, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., C.I.E., Com-
mander of the Forces in Ireland, inspected the regiment as
follows — On 1 7th at Waterford ; i8th at Fethard ; i9th, head-
quarters at Cahir.
On 1 4th, 1 5th, and i6th September, the Inspector-General
of Cavalry, Major-General G. Luck, C.B., inspected the
regiment, beginning with the detachment at Waterford on
1 4th, and there was a reconnaissance carried out towards
Cahir from Waterford on i5th. The strength of regiment
was 20 officers, 2 warrant officers, 486 non-commissioned
officers and men, — total all ranks, 508 ; officers' chargers, 54 ;
troop-horses, 326. An augmentation in the establishment had
taken place recently.
During the year 30 troop-horses were transferred from the
1896] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 393
Fourteenth to the 3rd Dragoon Guards, but the effec-
tive strength of troop-horses was 324 at the end of the
year.
On 3rd October, General C. W. Thompson, Colonel of the Colonel—
,. , ' . T, IT- r* i Hon. C. W.
regiment, died at Bramtree, hssex, and Lieutenant-General
the Honourable C. W. Thesiger was appointed to succeed
him.
The following ' after order ' was issued by Lieutenant-
Colonel A. J. English, commanding the i4th Hussars, on
6th October, when he heard of the General's decease : —
' The Commanding Officer deeply regrets having to
inform the regiment of the death of General Thompson, the
Honorary Colonel of the regiment, which occurred on 3rd inst.
General Thompson served with distinction in the regiment
in India, and was present at the battles of Chillianwallah and
Goojerat.
' As is well known, General Thompson had the greatest
regard for the regiment. Out of respect for him the regiment
will parade at 1.15 P.M. to-morrow, outside the stables, and the
band will play the " Dead March in Saul."
' The band will not otherwise play for the next three days,
and no trumpets will be sounded during that time.
' Officers will wear crape for 2 1 days. — By order,
' C. B. TOTTENHAM, Lieutenant,
1 Acting Adjutant, i^th Hussars.
'A. J. E.'
On the 9th November, Colonel E. H. Holley, Commanding
Royal Artillery, Cork District, and Colonel on the Staff,
inspected the regiment in the absence on sick leave of Major-
General J. Fryer, C.B. He saw the headquarters at Cahir on
the 9th, and the detachment at Clogheen in the afternoon.
He inspected the detachments at Carrick-on-Suir and Water-
ford on the roth, and at Fethard on the i ith.
Major H. W. Mitchell retired from the regiment, and
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1897
Captains E. D. J. O'Brien and L. J. Richardson became
Majors.
Captain R. C. Stephen was appointed Adjutant.
1897
On the ist January, two squadrons and headquarters were
at Cahir, a half squadron at Waterford, a half squadron at
Carrick-on-Suir, a half squadron at Fethard, a half squadron
at Clogheen.
In May, the half squadrons at Waterford and Carrick-on-
Suir were withdrawn, one going to Cahir and the other to
Fethard.
On 6th May, a squadron moved from Cahir and Clogheen
(half from each) to Fethard, and half of ' C ' squadron moved
from Cahir to Clogheen. On 3ist May, 'C' squadron moved
from Cahir and Clogheen to Fethard, and ' A ' squadron moved
from Fethard to Cahir ; at the same time half of ' B ' squadron
went from Cahir to Clogheen.
On 1 4th and I5th April, Major-General J. Fryer, C.B.,
Commanding Cork District, inspected the regiment at Cahir.
He inspected at Clogheen on i6th; at Carrick-on-Suir, I7th;
at Waterford, 22nd; and at Fethard on 23rd April.
The number of effectives (non-commissioned officers and
men) was 492, and their religious denominations, nationalities,
and educational statistics were as follows : —
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.
Officers.
Warrant
Officers.
Non-commissioned
Officers and Men.
Church of England,
23
2
392
Presbyterians,
'3
Wesleyans, .
23
Other Protestants, .
5
Roman Catholics, .
59
23
2
492
1 897] THE HTM (KING'S) HUSSARS
NATIONALITIES.
395
English,
Scottish,
Irish, ....
Officers.
Warrant
Officers.
Non-commissioned
Officers and Men.
18
2
3
2
433
9
5°
23
2
492
EDUCATIONAL ACQUIREMENTS.
Non-commissioned officers and men.
No. of men of inferior education, .
T T , , ( Third-class. .
Holding o j ,
.., & \ Second-class, .
certificates, r-.. ,
\. r irst-class,
Not holding certificates,
No. of men
who are better
educated.
8
64
99
1 1
310
492
HORSES.
No. of each age.
Under 5 years, . 55
5 to 8 years (inclusive), 148
9 to 12 years (inclusive), 65
13 years and over, 56
324
No. of each height.
^ hands and under, o
15 » »> o
16
54
324
Average age and service of the horses cast, 1896.
Age, 1 2^ years. Service, 8|- years.
On 2Oth March some new orders affecting the dress of offi
officers and men were introduced by the Inspector-General
of Cavalry, Major- General G. Luck, C.B. The use
sheepskins for all ranks and shabracques for officers was
discontinued in the cavalry, the latter having already been
discontinued for the ranks many years previously.
On ist April the cavalry of the line was reorganised under
of discontinued'
396 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1897
directions from the Inspector-General of Cavalry. Each
regiment was" to have 3 squadrons for service, and one reserve
New cavalry squadron. At the same time a new pattern saddle was issued
saddles issued. , . , , . . 11-1
Establishment to cavalry regiments, and the regimental establishment was
augmented from 522 to 570 of all ranks, the number of troop-
horses being raised from 325 to 343.
Establishment of the i4th (King's) Hussars, 1897 : —
Officers : —
Colonel, . . . .1
Lieutenant-Colonel, . . i
Majors, . . . . -4
Captains, . . . . .4
Lieutenants, . ... 8
Second- Lieutenants, . . .3
Adjutant, . . . . i
Riding-master, i
Quartermaster, i
Total, . -24
Warrant Officers : —
Regimental Sergeant-Major. . . i
Bandmaster, . . ... . i
Non-commissioned Officers (Sergeants] :—
Quartermaster-sergeant, . . i
Farrier quartermaster-sergeant, . . i
Sergeant-instructor in fencing, . . i
Squadron sergeant-major rough rider, . i
Squadron sergeant-majors, . . 4
Squadron quartermaster-sergeants, . 4
Orderly-room sergeant, . . i
Orderly-room clerk, . . i
Sergeant- trumpeter, . . i
1897] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 397
Armourer-sergeant (attached), . . . i
Saddler-sergeant, . . i
Sergeant-cook, ... i
Sergeant master-tailor, . . i
Sergeant-farriers, ... -4
Sergeants, . . . . 23
Total, . . 46
Rank and File :—
Trumpeters, . 8
Corporals, . . . . -24
Corporal shoeing-smiths, . . .3
Shoeing-smiths, . 8
Saddlers, . . . . -4
Saddletree-maker, . . i
Privates, ..... 460
Total, . . 508
Total of regiment, all ranks, . . 570
Horses (chargers and troopers), . 399
Establishment by Squadrons : —
Officers.
Warrant
Officers.
Non-com-
missioned
Officers.
Rank
and
File.
Officers'
chargers.
Troop
,
Riding
-horses.
Draught
' A ' squadron,
5
9
132
12
96
2
' B ' squadron,
5
9
132
12
96
2
' C ' squadron,
5
9
132
12
96
2
Reserve squadron,
3
8
III
7
38
2
' Headquarters,' .
5
2
1 1
I
13
9
Totals, .
23
2
46
508
56
335
8
N.B, (i) The reserve squadron in above table includes band, recruits,
remounts, men in regimental employment. (2) 'Headquarters' includes
the Lieutenant-Colonel, senior Major, Staff-Officers, Warrant Officers, etc. ;
staff-sergeants, etc. (3) The 'Colonel' is not included in the total of 23
officers; but in the total of 'all ranks' he is included.
398
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1897-
Marchedfrom
Newbridge
New pattern
[S7^er-pistols
Regiment
their Royal
Highnesses
the Duke and
Duchess of
Regiment
isthlSfo
in Dublin.
In June the regiment marched from Cahir and out-
quarters to cavalry barracks, Newbridge, detaching one
squadron (' C ') under Captain Brown to the Curragh Camp
for vedette duty, where it arrived on i4th June.
' A,' ' B/ and ' D ' squadrons and headquarters under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel English reached Newbridge on the i6th and
17th, having commenced the march from Cahir on nth June.
The sergeants were this year equipped with a new
revolver-pistol, the ' Webley' (mark H.).
On 3Oth June, and again on 24th July, Major-General
B. Combe, C.B., Commanding the Curragh District, inspected
the regiment.
On the 1 4th August the regiment proceeded from New-
bridge, and was encamped in Dublin under Lieutenant-
Colonel English for a fortnight, during which time it sup-
1-11 r 1 T» 1 TT- 1 1 T-v 1 1
plied the escorts for their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of York, on the occasion of their visit to the Irish
capital and its neighbourhood, returning to Newbridge on
28th August.
During their stay in Dublin, the Fourteenth, under
Lieutenant-Colonel English, took part in the grand parade
of troops held in the Phoenix Park under command of Field-
Marshal the Right Honourable Lord Roberts, V.C., K.P.,
G.C.B., G. C.S.I., G.C.I.E., Commanding the Forces in
Ireland, on which occasion Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of York presented new colours to the 2nd Battalion of the
Royal Fusiliers.
The strength of the 3 squadrons in Dublin was 1 8 officers,
344 men, and 275 horses.
During the stay of the Fourteenth in Dublin, their old
friends the i3th Hussars, who were then quartered in the
Marlborough Barracks, Phoenix Park, most hospitably enter-
tained the whole regiment, and thus the friendship of both
regiments, which was so marked in the old campaigning
days of the war in the Peninsula, was most happily revived.
Sic, VIRET IN STERNUM,
1 899] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 399
On this occasion the officers of the Fourteenth used, as
guests, those same mess-tables which their predecessors,
about to embark for India, fifty-six years before (1841)
had presented as a parting gift to the regiment which now
entertained them.
On the 1 3th, i/j-th, and i5th September the Fourteenth
were inspected by Major-General Sir George Luck, K.C.B.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry.
1898
On the 29th March, Major-General Sir G. Luck, K.C.B.,
Inspector-General of Cavalry, made his spring inspection of
the regiment at Newbridge.
The number of carbines in possession of the regiment was
467, magazine Lee-Metfords ; the number of Webley revolver-
pistols, 62 ; the number of swords, cavalry pattern, 555.
On the 1 3th August, i squadron moved from Newbridge
to Dublin, and returned from Dublin to Newbridge on the
3ist August.
The total effectives on i st December was as follows : strength of
— headquarters at Newbridge; 4 squadrons; 23 officers ; 2 of^iggk
warrant officers ; 589 non-commissioned officers and men, —
total all ranks, 614. Horses: officers', 55; riding, 325;
draught, 16. Soldiers' wives on the married roll (warrant
officers, non-commissioned officers and men), 45. Children on
the strength, males, 39 ; females, 54, — total 93.
1899
On the 22nd February, Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. English Lieutenant-
was placed on retired pay, when Major Gilbert H. C. Hamilton G. H. c.
became Lieutenant-Colonel, and assumed command of the regi- H
ment. At the same time Major E. D. J. O'Brien became
second in command, and Captain E. J. Tickell, recently
400 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1899
awarded a companionship of the ' Distinguished Service
Order' for special services in West Africa, became a Major
in the regiment.
Ordered to Early in October the war in South Africa commenced,
and the Fourteenth being now on the higher establishment
of cavalry regiments on home service, were ordered on the
9th October to mobilise and to call up the reserves so as
to be placed on a war strength. The higher .establishment
consisted of the following numbers : —
Officers, . . . . 23
Warrant Officers, .... 2
Sergeants, . 45
Trumpeters, . 8
Corporals, . . . . 30
Corporal shoeing-smiths, . . . 3
Shoeing-smiths, saddlers, assistant saddlers,
and saddle-tree maker, . . .16
Privates, . . . . .560
All ranks, . . 687
Horses, ..... 465
Ordered to the In regimental orders of the i8th October at Newbridge,
Boer War in , r 11 • i
South Africa, the following appeared : —
'Departures — i4th Hussars, "B" squadron on the 22nd inst.
to embark in ss. Jamaican, and headquarters and "A " squadron
on 23rd inst. in ss. Siberian, at Queenstown, for South Africa.'
Subsequently an order was received for the regiment to
stand fast and await further orders. A few days later came
a definite order cancelling the embarkation of the regiment,
owing to a serious outbreak of influenza and ' pink-eye '
amongst the horses. It was, however, intimated to the
regiment that so soon as the horses were free from this
epidemic, they would be moved to Aldershot, and in the
1899] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 403
Lieutenants — C. B. Tottenham.
W. Henry.
W. J. Lockett.
F. R. Lawrence, D.S.O., Adjutant.
H. J. Tilney (proceeded from India).
T. E. L. Hill-Whitson.
R. Blackett.
E. J. Jameson.
W. R. Campbell.
E. T. L. Wright.
Second- Lieutenants — J. B. Walker.
J. G. Browne.
Hon. H. Grosvenor.
B. M. Dawes.
C. H. B. Prescott-Westcar.
Quartermaster — F. Mugford (Honorary Captain).
Warrant Officer — Regimental Sergeant-Major A. Pridgeon.
Major E. J. Tickell, D.S.O., was employed in South Africa
on 'special service/ away from the regiment, and Captain
William Prevost joined the regiment in South Africa from
sick leave in the spring of 1900, and was appointed Station
Staff Officer, Lines of Communication, on 9th August in that
year.
There were four attached officers, viz. —
Veterinary Captain J. G. O'Donel, A.V.D.
Captain C. Dalton, R. A. Medical Corps.
Captain P. R. Denny, ist (King's) Dragoon Guards.
Lieutenant C. G. G. Hutchison, 2ist Lancers.
A reserve squadron was left at the Curragh Camp to Reserve
form a depot whilst the regiment was on active service,
where the regimental books and heavy baggage of the November
service squadrons were stored. This squadron was under
the command of Captain J. Murray, and consisted of: —
Lieutenant — E. P. Philipson-Stow.
404 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
Second- Lieutenants — J . H arvey.
G. R. Scott.
J. F. Champion.
F. E. Lace.
Riding- Master — R. Odium (Honorary Captain).
Warrant Officer — Bandmaster H. Hemsley.
428 Non-commissioned officers and men. 16 Soldiers' wives.
118 Horses. 47 Children.
•A and<c' On the 1 3th December, headquarters of the Fourteenth
headquarters^ and two squadrons ('A' and 'C'), under Lieutenant-Colonel
December31*1 ^*' Hamilton, embarked in the hired transport ss. Victorian,
1899. and sailed from Southampton for Cape Town.
'B' squadron The remaining squadron (' B '), under Major R. M. Richard-
Delcemfir2Ist son, left Aldershot on the 2ist December 1899, and embarked
l899- at Southampton on board the hired transport ss. Cestrian.
Major Richardson was taken ill at Southampton, and could
not proceed with his men, Captain Brooksbank taking his
place in command of the squadron ; but Major Richardson
was enabled to proceed subsequently by another ship, and
rejoined his squadron in South Africa at De Aar on 22nd
January 1900, and resumed command. The Cestrian ex-
perienced some very rough weather, and reached Cape Town
on loth January. This squadron disembarked, went to Mait-
land Camp, and remained there till i6th; thence it pro-
ceeded by rail to De Aar, arriving there i8th, and marched
forward by road on the 29th, arriving at Orange River 2nd
February, and at Zoutpans Drift 4th February.
1900
; B' squadron We will first recount the doings of the ' B ' squadron : — On
River'cloiony. 9tn February the Queen's chocolate was issued to all ranks, and
the same day the march was continued to Ramah, on the Orange
River, whence on nth February the squadron started to take
part in the relief of Kimberley as a portion of the Cavalry
Division commanded by Major-General J. D. P. French.
1900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 405
On the 1 5th, the date of the relief of Kimberley, the ' B ' ' B • squadron
squadron was engaged on the Modder River and outside Sberky,
Kimberley, and at Dronfield, north of Kimberley, on the j|}Jj Feb
1 6th, when Squadron Quartermaster - Sergeant Ayres was I9°o-
severely wounded.
On the 2ist February this squadron, under Major R. M.
Richardson, with Captain Brooksbank, Lieutenants Henry
and Lockett, and Second-Lieutenants Walker and Dawes,
was employed in the operations undertaken to surround ' B ' squadron
General Cronje and his army of Boers at Paardeberg. JistU'ayth'8'
Cronje surrendered on the 27th February, and the squadron February I9°°-
crossed to the south of the river Modder on 6th March.
On the 7th it was engaged with the enemy at Poplar Grove At Poplar
(Osfontein), and took part in a reconnaissance to Abraham's Driefo'ntem,
Kraal on the gth ; engaged on the loth at Abraham's Kraal f0nndt?n°e77h to
(Driefontein), and was present on i3th at the capitulation of J3th March
Bloemfontein.
Whilst at Bloemfontein on the 27th March, the 'B' squadron
formed an escort for His Excellency Sir Alfred Milner,1
G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Cape of Good Hope and its Dependencies, and High
Commissioner for South Africa, on the occasion of his visit
to the capital of the Orange Free State (now the Orange River
Colony) during its occupation by the British army under Field-
Marshal Lord Roberts; and on the 3Oth March the whole ' B ' squadron
squadron, officers and men, were present at the funeral of their of Colonel^
late commanding officer, Colonel the Hon. G. H. Gough, C.B., Gough?CB .,
who was employed on the staff, and whose death took place at ?l Bloem-
«, T, i n/r i fontein, 3Oth
Norvals Font on the 28th March. The ceremony was also March 1900.
attended to the cemetery of Bloemfontein by Lord Roberts
with all his generals and staff officers, the remains of the
deceased officer having been previously conveyed from
Norval's Pont, and met on arrival by a detachment of his old
regiment under Lieutenant W. Henry. The other officers
of the Fourteenth present on this melancholy occasion
were Major R. M. Richardson, Captain R. G. Brooksbank.
1 Afterwards Lord Milner.
406
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1900
A ' and ' C '
squadrons and
headquarters
in Natal,
6th January
1900.
Engaged at
Chieveley,
1 5th January
1900.
Engaged at
Hussar Hill,
23rd January
1900.
Lieutenant W. J. Lockett, Second- Lieutenant J. B. Walker,
and Second- Lieutenant B. M. Dawes.
We must now return to the two squadrons (' A ' and ' C ')
with headquarters of the Fourteenth, which reached Cape
Town on ist January in ss. Victorian, proceeded next day to
Durban, and landed there on the 6th. From Durban they
proceeded by train to Estcourt, and joined the army of Natal
under General Sir Redvers H. Buller, V.C., G.C.B., K.C.M.G.,
which was operating on the Tugela for the relief of Ladysmith
garrison besieged by the Boer army. The Fourteenth were
posted to the ist Natal Cavalry Brigade under command
of Brigadier-General J. Burn- Murdoch, ist (Royal) Dragoons,
and in the same brigade were the ist (Royal) Dragoons and
the 1 3th Hussars.1
On nth January 'C' squadron proceeded to Hodgson's
Hill, 10 miles east of Estcourt, and returned on i3th. On
the latter day ' A ' squadron and headquarters marched from
Estcourt to Frere. On the i5th half of 'A' squadron and
headquarters proceeded to Chieveley to join Major-General
Barton's Brigade, and took part in a demonstration. The
mounted troops were commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Gilbert Hamilton, i4th Hussars, and the machine gun, with
2 naval i2-pounders, opened fire at long ranges against the
Boers, who were all entrenched and under cover in very strong
positions, whence they kept up an occasional fire without doing
much harm to our men.
On the 23rd one squadron and headquarters, under Major
E. D. J. O'Brien, took part in a reconnaissance in force
commanded by Major-General G. Barton, C.B., which pro-
ceeded to Hussar Hill for the purpose of ascertaining what
could be seen of the enemy's positions on Hlangwane Hill.
The squadron of the Fourteenth was much pressed by the fire
of the enemy, and Colonel Blagrove, I3th Hussars, who com-
manded the mounted force engaged on this occasion, compli-
1 The Fourteenth were brigaded with both these regiments during the Peninsular
War, with the ist Royal Dragoons in 1810-11, and with the I3th Light Dragoons in
1813-14. See ante, pp. 71, 88, 135.
CAPE
London:
SOUTH AFRICA
1900
PLACES WHERE THE FOURTEENTH HAVE BEEN
Scale of Etxgish. KBles.
SO 2S O IS SO 75 100
ns, Green & Co.
Stanfar&s Geog^s
i QOO] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 407
merited the officers and men for their excellent work and steady
behaviour under fire. There were 25 casualties amongst the
troops engaged, and Captain Dalton, Royal Army Medical
Corps, attached to the Fourteenth, was severely wounded.
On 28th January the 2 squadrons and headquarters
proceeded to Spearman's Hill via Springfield, and joined the
mounted troops operating there under Brigadier-General the
Earl of Dundonald, C.B.
On 5th February the Fourteenth ('A' and 'C ' squadrons At the action
and headquarters *), under Lieutenant-Colonel G. Hamilton, ^ February'
were present in the action of Vaalkranz, which was an attack I900<
on the position held by the Boers opposite Potgieters. Burn-
Murdoch's Brigade was brought up to the front of Swartz Kop
to threaten the enemy's right, but cavalry could do nothing
owing to the nature of the ground, and the brigade remained
all day in mass, frequently exposed to fire. The troops
bivouacked on the ground they held, but at 3.30 A.M. next day
the enemy's shot and shell falling amongst them necessitated a
move to a less exposed position. It was not till the 8th
February, however, that Sir Redvers Buller retired his army
when he realised he was unable to force the position.
The Fourteenth were employed to cover the retirement
of the troops, and they did not reach Springfield till loth
February.
On the 1 2th there was a long day's outpost work, and part
of the regiment rode 40 miles in very hot weather, losing
five horses, who died at once from exhaustion, and others
subsequently. The Royal Dragoons were attacked and
suffered several casualties, one officer wounded and several
men killed and wounded. The Boers managed to elude us,
and escaped across the Tugela at Shiet's Drift.
On 2ist the ist Cavalry Brigade marched to Chieveley,
the Fourteenth acting as rearguard, and escorting a convoy
to Pretorius Farm. They bivouacked en route^ and joined the
brigade next morning when on the march to a place east of
Colenso, near the Tugela, where they remained till the 24th.
1 The term 'headquarters' includes the Maxim gun belonging to the regiment.
4o8
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1900
Crossed the
1900.
Relief of
A' and 'C'
Orange River
Colony,
6th March
1900.
They were engaged on the 22nd and 23rd, and crossed the
Tugela on the following day by pontoon bridge, forming up
north of Fort Wylie. The Fourteenth lost one man and one
horse drowned in the river during a patrol.
The ground over which the cavalry had to work in Natal
was quite unsuited to that branch of the service, and owing
to the fatigue of the long marches and want of water, there
was an enormous loss in horseflesh incurred.
The relief of Ladysmith took place on the 28th February.
O*1 tne 3r^ March the relieving forces made a triumphal entry,
the Fourteenth, under Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Hamilton,
leading the procession, and passed through the town of
Ladysmith under General Sir Redvers Buller, in the presence
of its gallant defenders headed by their commander, Lieutenant-
General Sir George S. White, V.C., G.C.B.,G.C.S.I.,G.C.I.E.,
after which they encamped beyond the town. It was a source
of great surprise and disappointment to the cavalry that no
pursuit was carried out when the Boers trekked.
On the 5th March the Fourteenth moved out to Elands-
laagte, and reconnoitred the ground north of Sundays River.
On the 6th they reconnoitred the Biggarsberg, reporting
that it was held by the Boers as an entrenched position.
Shortly afterwards orders were received for the 2 squadrons
and headquarters to march to Durban, and after embarking
tnere to sa^ to East London, thence to proceed by railway
to Bethulic, and march onwards to Bloemfontein to join Lord
J
Roberts s army there.
These squadrons embarked at Durban in ss. Templemore
on 2 ist March, having previously received a draft of 115 men,
under Second-Lieutenant Champion, and, arriving at East
London on 22nd, proceeded by rail to Bethulie. Here they
were supplied with a large number of remounts to complete the
losses incurred on the voyage out and in Natal. The march
onwards was commenced on 3ist March, but as there was
a long convoy of ox-wagons, as well as a large supply of
army remounts, with other detachments of troops to be
escorted to Bloemfontein, there were many delays ; so that
1900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 409
after passing Jagersfontein on 2nd April, and Bethany on
8th, Bloemfontein was not reached till the nth, when the 2
squadrons and headquarters halted at Donkerhoek, 8 miles
north of that city.
On the 1 4th, ' B ' squadron, under Major R. M. Richardson,
moved from Bloemfontein and joined the main portion of the
Fourteenth at Donkerhoek, so that the whole regiment, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Hamilton, was now concentrated
there as a portion of the Cavalry Division in the Orange River
Colony commanded by Lieutenant-General French,1 being
posted to the 4th Cavalry Brigade under Major- General J. B. B.
Dickson, C.B., in which were also the 7th (Princess Royal's)
Dragoon Guards and the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars.
Whilst at Bethulie the 2 squadrons had been almost
entirely rehorsed by Argentine remounts and Cape ponies.
The ' C ' squadron, commanded by Major E. D. Brown, was
mounted entirely on Cape ponies. The Argentines were
neither fit for work nor acclimatised, as they had recently
come off a long ocean voyage, and this may have accounted
for the great losses subsequently incurred in horseflesh as
soon as the regiment began to have hard work again. The
2 squadrons from Natal heard, on ist April, at Springfontein,
of the death of Colonel the Honourable G. H. Gough, C.B.,
who recently commanded the Fourteenth, and all ranks were
deeply concerned at the loss of their former commanding
officer, who was most highly esteemed and respected through-
out the regiment.
A stampede unfortunately occurred in camp at Bloemfontein stampede at
on 1 9th April. The horses of the brigade were out grazing,
some of them not hobbled, when suddenly the whole regiment
of the 1 7th Lancers came galloping through the camp, practising
an advance in line. In consequence of this the troop-horses of
the 7th Dragoon Guards, 8th Hussars, and i4th Hussars were
utterly scared, and galloped off in every direction. It took
several days to collect them again, and some were never re-
1 Major-General J. D. P. French had local rank of Lieutenant-General in South
Africa whilst commanding the Cavalry Division.
4io
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1900
Relief of
Wepener.
covered by their own regiments. The Fourteenth lost about
53, and could only muster 350 horses for the relief of Wepener
instead of 400, as would otherwise have been the case.
The Fourteenth took an active part in the operations under-
taken in Orange River Colony for the relief of Wepener,
towards the end of April.
On the 2ist, the 3rd and 4th Cavalry Brigades were de-
tailed to form part of the force under Lieutenant-General
J. D. P. French, which proceeded from Bloemfontein with
Major-General Pole-Carew's xith Division, for the purpose
of co-operating with the vmth Division commanded by
Lieutenant-General Sir H. Rundle, K.C.B.
These troops were continuously opposed, and encountered
vigorous attacks made by the Boers with rifle-fire at long
ranges. Engagements were fought on the 22nd, 23rd, and
24th April at Leeuw Kop and Roode Kop, and on the
25th the force came up with Sir H. Rundle's Division at
Dewetsdorp, which place had just been evacuated by the
enemy and occupied by us. The Fourteenth, in these engage-
the Fourteenth. mentS) iost Sergeant L. Cunningham,1 mortally wounded
at Leeuw Kop on 22nd ; and on the 24th, at Roode Kop,
Captain P. R. Denny (ist Dragoon Guards), attached to the
1 4th Hussars, was killed, and 9 men were wounded. Several
of the latter died of their wounds shortly afterwards. Captain
Denny was shot through the heart. He was deeply regretted
by the whole regiment — a good officer, and possessed of a
charming disposition which made him a great favourite. In an
outpost affair near Thabanchu a few days later, Captain D. M.
Miller of the Fourteenth was so severely wounded that the
Boers, who had taken him prisoner, subsequently brought
him into camp and handed him over to our army. Captain
Miller had to be invalided and sent home to England as soon
as he was able to travel. He afterwards recovered and was
able to join the reserve squadron at Curragh Camp under
Captain J. Murray nine months later.
For several days subsequently, at Thabanchu and the neigh-
1 Sergeant Cunningham died the same night : a piece of shell penetrated his chest.
Engaged at
Leeuw Kop
and Roode
Kop,
22nd to 24th
April 1900.
Casualties of
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bourhood, the Fourteenth, as well as the rest of the cavalry, were
incessantly engaged fighting with large bodies of the enemy
who were hovering about. Having lost a considerable number
of horses in these operations, as well as in the stampede
at Donkerhoek, 180 fresh horses had to be procured from the
Remount Depot at Bloemfontein to complete deficiencies, and Advance on
on the 7th May the Fourteenth advanced in brigade, under Bloemfontein,
Major-General Dickson, as a portion of the Cavalry Division 7th May I9°°'
commanded by Lieutenant- General J. D. P. French which
proceeded from Bloemfontein in the direction of Kroonstad,
Johannesburg, and Pretoria. They made a wide detour to the
left, and crossed the Vaal River at Parys. This was part
of the great strategic movement of Lord Roberts's army on
Pretoria. It was not till the 8th June that the Fourteenth
reached Kameeldrift, to the north of Pretoria. The force which
took part in this movement consisted of —
No. of Men.
i Cavalry Division, . . . 2,700
3 Divisions of Infantry, . . 18,800
i Corps of Mounted Infantry, . 4,800
26,300
With 132 guns.
The marches from Bloemfontein (Donkerhoek) were as
follows : —
Miles.
May 7. To a place 4 miles north of
Karree Siding, , ••.- . 20
„ 8. Vet River, . ,*- . 35
„ 9. Kalkoens Krans, , . , . 25
„ 10. Londerhaut, . . .36
ii. Valsch River Spruit, . . 25
141
fjordaan Siding
1 and
' I Kroonstad.
20. Kroom Bloem, . ' . 12
, 21. Welgelegen, . . .12
4i2 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
Miles.
May 22. Roodeval, . . 13
„ 23. Shepstone, . . '." 14
,, 24. Viljoen's Drift (crossed Vaal River
at Parys Drift), . . 20
„ 25. Zeekoefontein, . . .16
„ 26. Riet Farm, . . . 8
,, 27. Vlakfontein, . . .20
„ 28. Rietfontein, . . . : 18
,, 29. Vlakfontein, near Doornkop, . 10
,, 30. Klipfontein, . . , . 16
159
On the 27th there was some skirmishing with the enemy.
Engaged at On the 28th the 4th Cavalry Brigade were much under fire.
28th MayTgoo. The Fourteenth had 2 men and 6 horses wounded. Major
Brown, Captain Tottenham, and Lieutenant and Adjutant
F. R. Lawrence, D.S.O., had their horses shot under them.
Engaged at On the 29th, 2 squadrons of the 7th Dragoon Guards and
29°hMayPi'9oo. 2 squadrons of the Fourteenth gallantly stormed and captured
a kopje near Doornkop.
On 3ist May, Johannesburg surrendered to Lord Roberts,
and the Guards Division, under Major-General Pole-Carew,
C.B., occupied it.
On ist June the Fourteenth marched from Klipfontein to
Bergvlei, 6 miles, and encamped there, 1 1 miles north of
Johannesburg. On 3rd June the Cavalry Division marched
onwards to Pretoria, making a wide detour to the left.
The marches were as follows from Klipfontein : —
Miles.
June i. Bergvlei, ... 6
„ 3. Kalkheuvel, . . .30
,, 4. Crocodile River, . . 10
,, 5. Strydefontein, . . .15
,, 6. Koodoospoort (7 miles east of
Pretoria), . . .10
1900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 413
On the 3rd June there was some fighting over difficult ground Engaged near
where the Boers made a stand in a defile. Three squadrons Ri^jfjd
of the Fourteenth were engaged and successfully drove off the June J9°°-
enemy.
Pretoria was surrendered to Lord Roberts on the 4th
June.
On 8th June the Fourteenth marched further north 8 miles Arrival at
to Kameeldrift.1 There were only 13 officers of the Fourteenth sthjune 1900.
who finished this long and arduous march to Pretoria, viz. : —
Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton. Lieutenant Walker.
Major Brown. Lieutenant Browne.
Captain Tottenham. Second- Lieutenant Honourable
Lieutenant Lockett. H. Grosvenor.
Lieutenant Tilney. Lieutenant and Adjutant Law-
Lieutenant Hill-Whitson. rence, D.S.O.
Lieutenant Jameson. Quartermaster Mugford (Hon.
Lieutenant Campbell. Captain).
During the advance on Pretoria, on the i2th of May, Death of
Captain Stuart Robertson, who had previously served many R^
years in the Fourteenth, and who was in the Reserve of IstJune I9°°-
Officers, and belonged to the 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch
(Royal Highlanders), came back and joined his old regiment as
a duty officer. Unfortunately he was seized with illness a few
days afterwards and taken to hospital at Kroonstad, where he
succumbed to a severe attack of dysentery, and died on the
ist June, at the age of thirty-five years. His untimely loss
was most deeply deplored by the whole regiment, as well as
by his numerous friends amongst the old officers of the
Fourteenth, with whom he was a great favourite.
On the nth and i2th June the Cavalry Division had con- Engaged at
siderable fighting at Diamond Hill, north-east of Pretoria, in nThTnd «$
which the Fourteenth took part, and had 2 men wounded. June I9°°-
Considering that the men were exposed for 48 hours inces-
santly for the two days and nights to the enemy's fire from
1 Kameeldrift is about 14 miles north of Pretoria.
4i4 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
big guns, 'pom-poms,'1 and rifles, the latter at 400 yards'
distance, the casualties were very small. The Boers were all
the time sheltered either by large rocks or by entrenchments.
The cavalry acted dismounted, and were very skilfully handled.
After this action the officers of the 4th Brigade were personally
complimented by Lieutenant-General French for the manner
in which the cavalry regiments had held their positions on both
days, and he added, that had they been turned out of them it
would have been no disgrace, as infantry could not have held
them better.
On the 1 3th, after being a day at Tweefontein, where the
troops bivouacked, they returned on the I4th to Kameeldrift,
their former encampment. Here the Fourteenth remained for
some time ; they received a fresh supply of remounts, and their
chief duties were patrols and outposts.
AffairatDerde- On the 8th and Qth July the Boers endeavoured to break
oth jui8tmood tnrough the British outposts at Derdepoort, where the Four-
teenth had to ward off the attack. They were unsupported, as
the 7th Dragoon Guards and 8th Hussars had been temporarily
withdrawn to other positions for the whole chain was menaced.
At Derdepoort the attack was successfully opposed and the
enemy driven off. This was the occasion when the post at
Nitral's Nek, held by a squadron of the Scots Greys, the Lin-
coins, and 2 guns of Royal Horse Artillery, was surprised by the
enemy. One squadron of the Fourteenth was sent at the same
time to support the 7th Dragoon Guards, who had some stiff
fighting at Wonderboom, 4^- miles north of Pretoria, where
they lost heavily, but cut their way out.
Great cavalry On the 1 8th July the Cavalry Division was at Olifantsfontein,
rr^nced°,°i8th an(^ ^rom ^s point a movement of British forces on a large
July 1900. scale commenced in an easterly direction.2 The Boers' main
laager of 5000 men was at Bronkhorst Spruit, and they retired
skirmishing before our advance for several days.
1 These are ' Vicars-Maxims.'
2 The British force consisted of the Cavalry Division, Mounted Infantry Corps,
Pole-Carew's Division, and Ian Hamilton's Division.
1 900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 415
On the 24th, at Groetfontein, the cavalry came under long- Groetfontein,
range fire, but our Horse Artillery guns, being of too small 2i
calibre, could not reply with effect.1 On the 25th a squadron
of the Fourteenth, under Major Brown, when on outpost duty,
at a drift over the Olifant's River, came under long-range fire
of the enemy's Mausers, when the magazine Lee-Metford
carbines of our cavalry were found quite unable to cope with
the Boer rifles at long ranges.
On the 26th the 4th Cavalry Brigade halted for several Engaged at
^3 TT» r j 1 T 1
days at Erfdeel, on the Klein Olifant River, south of Middelburg. 26th,eei9oo. y
Here the Fourteenth and the Scots Greys were engaged, and
the former regiment bivouacked on an exposed hill during a
very wet night without any blankets or wood, and with only
the food which was carried in the men's haversacks.
On the 27th the brigade was at Pan Station on the Delagoa
Bay Railway. The Fourteenth were now attached to the ist
Cavalry Brigade, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade was temporarily
broken up, as Major-General Dickson had become Governor
of Middelburg for a time.
By the ist August the Cavalry Division had reached
Blinkpan, 14 miles south of Belfast, where the Fourteenth were
given a very long line of outposts to hold. The line was five
miles in extent; it had to be held by 340 men and 250 horses,
out of which no men were on duty (guard and outposts)
every night. This part of the country was destitute of forage,
as the Boers had cleared it nearly all away, and no hay was
issued for the horses. General Sir Redvers Buller's troops
were expected to come in touch with the Cavalry Division at
this point, passing from Carolina towards Komati Poort. In
consequence of the great scarceness of grass and forage, there
was a considerable loss incurred in horse-flesh, as the marches
were tedious and incessant.
On the 26th August the Cavalry Division moved from Geluk At Belfast,
to Belfast, leaving General Sir Redvers Buller's troops, now in ™
1 Major-General Dickson narrowly escaped a shell which fell close to the
Fourteenth during this affair.
416
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1900
Engaged at
Zwartkopjes,
27th August
1900.
Engaged near
Waterval-
boven, 3oth
August 1900.
At Machado-
dorp, 3 ist
August 1900.
touch, at the former place, and joined Pole-Carew's (xith)
Division. On this day the Fourteenth were in the advance-
guard with the Scots Greys and the Inniskilling Dragoons,
and marched with an extended front. The enemy was soon
discovered holding some rough ground, but was dislodged by
our guns and carbine fire. After bivouacking 8 miles north
of Belfast the cavalry proceeded on the 27th in the same order,
the Fourteenth being in the advance-guard, and the enemy, as
on the previous day, being driven in front of us. The bivouac
was at Zwartkopjes. The Fourteenth were i-g- miles on the
left flank of the brigade, and the Boers attempted to drive
them off a spur they held, but a troop, under Sergeant Dove,
repulsed them, with a few of our men and horses wounded.1
On the 28th the Cavalry Division marched eastwards and
reached Elandsfontein. Here the Boers held a position, but
after it had been shelled by our guns they retired. The
country in this region is extremely hilly and most difficult for
cavalry operations.
On the 2Qth the Cavalry Division advanced to within 4
miles of Watervalonder.
On the 3Oth the march was over a very rugged and pre-
cipitous region, and there was some hard work reconnoitring
and occupying the hills near Watervalboven. The Fourteenth
lost some horses shot. In the afternoon Major-General Pole-
Carew's Division came up and relieved the Cavalry Division,
when the latter bivouacked on the same ground as on the
29th, and on the next day (3ist) marched to Machadodorp,
leaving the xith Division to proceed eastwards, where the
country was quite impossible for cavalry to operate in.
The Cavalry Division moved from Machadodorp on 4th
September, reached Carolina on the 7th, and marched towards
Barberton on 9th. The distance from Carolina to Barberton
is 70 miles. On the 9th there was some skirmishing, but the
enemy retired.
1 It was on the 26th and 2yth of August that General Sir Redvers Buller's force
was fighting about Dalmanutha.
1 900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 417
On the loth the advance-guard, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Hamilton, was formed by the Fourteenth, 3 small squadrons
of 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), and a pom-pom. The
Cavalry Division bivouacked at Koppie Alleen on the loth,
and on the i ith marched towards a place on the Komati River,
crossing the Buffels Spruit about 4 miles before coming to the
river, and bivouacked on its banks.
On the 1 2th there was considerable opposition encountered Engaged at
in the advance. A squadron of the Fourteenth, under Lieu- nea/Komati
tenant Hill-Whitson, came across a party of the Boers on the
right flank and drove them off. The remainder of the regiment I9°°.
had to dismount and lead their horses up a very rugged and
steep hill, which they had been ordered to occupy by Brigadier-
General Gordon, commanding the ist Cavalry Brigade.
Lieutenant the Honourable H. Grosvenor took a squadron to
occupy a nek to the right, while Captain Tottenham, with his
squadron, pushed on in advance and occupied a position on
the higher hills beyond. This was effected without any loss.
Lieutenant Grosvenor's squadron became hotly engaged, and his
dismounted men did good work with their carbines, driving off
the enemy and only losing one horse. Lieutenant Campbell had
been ordered to push on as advance-guard to a convoy in front
of the infantry (two battalions, commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel J. Spens, Shropshire Light Infantry) ; he came under
a very hot fire from both flanks, but he took the kopje, the
enemy retiring when he got within 300 yards of the position.
Presently the infantry came up and occupied it. This was Nel's
Hoek. Next day, I3th, the ist Brigade, consisting of the Cara- Dash for
biniers, Scots Greys, Inniskillings, and Fourteenth made a dash cavalry under
for Barberton over Nel's Hoek, Lieutenant-General French
leading. Captain Tottenham's squadron of the Fourteenth was September
I OCX).
sent forward from a hill, 7 miles from the town, where the
cavalry was concentrated about 1.30 P.M., and brought back
the Military Governor, Van der Post. At 5 P.M. the cavalry
moved to a point 3 miles from Barberton, where they
bivouacked, and the town was quickly evacuated by the Boers.
2 D
418 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
Barberton Next day, the 1 4th September, the cavalry came close up
September15* to Barberton, and on the i5th the Union Jack was hoisted
at the Court-house in presence of 100 men from each
regiment.
Lieutenant the On the 1 7th the Fourteenth marched on reconnaissance
H. Grosvenor duty to Montrose Mine, and on the same day Lieutenant
i7thUsTpt5m-rs' tne Honourable H. Grosvenor, with a patrol of the Fourteenth,
took prisoners a party of Boers hiding in a kloof. He first
surrounded them by a chain of dismounted men armed with
carbines, and when the Boers found shots coming from the
direction in which they were trying to escape they very quickly
surrendered.
On the 1 8th the Fourteenth returned, stopping at Ivy
Mine, and reached Barberton on the igth.
On the 25th a squadron of the Fourteenth, under Captain
Lockett and Lieutenant the Honourable H. Grosvenor, went
to join a reconnaissance-force under Major Scobell and a party
of the Scots Greys towards Nel's Hoek.
On 2nd October marching orders came to proceed via
Godwan River Station to Machadodorp, from the vicinity of
Barberton. The Cavalry Division marched from Barberton
3rd October, reached Godwan Station, on Eland's River, on
the 6th, Nooitgedacht Station on 7th (the scene of the recent
detention of the British prisoners of war within wire kraals),
and bivouacked same night at Watervalonder Station.
On the 8th the Division passed Helvetia Farm and
reached Machadodorp, distant 77 miles from Barberton. At
Machadodorp the Fourteenth received 100 remounts to replace
casualties. Here the brigades were reorganised : Colonel B. T.
Mahon, D.S.O., i2th Lancers, was given command of a brigade,
consisting of the 8th Hussars, the I4th Hussars, and ' M '
Battery Royal Horse Artillery ; Major- General Dickson's
Brigade was now made up by the 7th Dragoon Guards
and Suffolk Regiment with some artillery, an ammunition
column, and other details; Brigadier-General Gordon's (ist)
Brigade, consisting of the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers),
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2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), 6th Dragoons (Inniskillings), and
Royal Horse Artillery.
On the 1 2th, Mahon's Brigade, followed by the other
brigades on I3th, marched for Heidelberg via Ermelo and
Bethel. When near Geluk and Dalmanutha, about 14 miles
from Machadodorp, Mahon's Brigade had an encounter with
the enemy's patrols on its first day's march, but drove them
off, and bivouacked there, on General Sir Redvers Buller's
former camping-ground.
Very early next morning, the i3th October, Mahon's Engaged at
Brigade was shelled by the enemy, who had crept up through f^ October
a ravine during the night, and had almost surrounded it. The I9°°-
Boers were about 1000 strong, Mahon's Brigade scarcely 600
all told. Without any delay Brigadier- General Mahon sent
off the convoy, under escort of 2 small squadrons of the
Fourteenth, towards Dalmanutha for safety, and then retired
the 8th Hussars, the remainder of the Fourteenth holding the
position so as to cover the retreat. Captain Tottenham's, the
' A ' squadron, lined the trenches nearest the enemy, and was
much exposed to fire. During the withdrawal of a picquet of
the 8th Hussars which was nearly cut off, Lieutenant Wylam,
8th Hussars, and several men of his picquet were killed ;
Lieutenant Gilmore of the 8th Hussars and several men were
wounded, and the adjutant of the 8th Hussars, Lieutenant
Jones, was killed. The Fourteenth had 2 men and 5 horses Casualties of
killed, 9 men and 10 horses wounded, and Lieutenant Harvey
had his horse shot under him. Major E. D. Brown, 1 4th Major Brown,
Hussars, behaved most gallantly during this action : he behaveUS'
brought a sergeant and a trumpeter out of action on his lantly'
own horse one after the other, their horses having been shot,
and himself remained behind under a very heavy fire to
assist Lieutenant J. G. Browne to mount his horse, which
was restive under the galling fire of the enemy and would not
stand still. He was afterwards awarded the Victoria Cross for
his conspicuous bravery on this occasion.1 The ' M ' Battery
1 See Appendix C, p. 619.
420 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
Royal Horse Artillery lost heavily, i officer killed, i officer
wounded, and 1 1 men killed and wounded. The two pom-
poms were of great service in helping to cover the retirement
on this occasion. After a stiff fight the Boers gave up further
pursuit, and the brigade was enabled to bivouac about 3^
miles back unmolested. The object of this attack was
to seize the convoy for provisions and ammunition, of
which the Boers were very short. The ist and 4th Cavalry
Brigades unfortunately were 10 miles distant at the time
of this affair, and consequently unable to render any support
to Mahon's Brigade.
The next marches of the brigades were as follows : —
Miles.
October 15. Vaalbult, . . .18
,, 1 6. Roode Bloem, . . 12
,, 17. Sterkfontein, . . 12
,, 1 8. Spitz Kop (a farm 3 miles
from Ermelo), . . 10
,, 19. Hamelfontein, . . 14
,, 20. Bethel, . . .16
After leaving Ermelo on the I9th the rearguard of the
Division was perpetually harassed by the enemy in small
bodies, from a distance. Several farms where the 'white
flag ' treachery had been flagrantly perpetrated in this district
were burned by the cavalry.
Lieutenant- On ^G 2ist, at Bethel, during a halt, the Lieutenant-
Generai General commanding the Cavalry Division ordered a parade
rrench scorn- * r
piimentary ad- of the Fourteenth at 1 1. 30 A.M., as he wished to address the
2ist October6 ' regiment. Lieutenant-General French spoke as follows :—
1900.
' Colonel Hamilton, officers, non-commissioned officers and
men of the i4th Hussars, — I have been wishing for some
time to address you as a regiment, and to thank you, each one
individually, for your behaviour throughout this long and
i goo] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 421
arduous campaign. The i4th Hussars have done so well at
all times that it is difficult for me to mention any special
occasions, but I can recall how well Colonel Hamilton led you,
and what good work you did on the way to Dewetsdorp, also
the following day at Roode Kop, when you maintained a
difficult position under a heavy flank fire ; and again the hot
work at Thabanchu, when the regiment behaved so well.
There are other occasions about which I have already spoken
to your officers, viz. the march to Pretoria, when you did
splendid work, the attack on Doom Kop, south-west of
Johannesburg, which contributed to the success of the opera-
tions; and later on, June the nth and i2th, at the battle
of Diamond Hill, where the regiment maintained an exposed
position for forty-eight hours under a hot fire of artillery and
musketry at close range. On this occasion most valuable
service was rendered by checking the advance of the enemy,
and enabling the ist Brigade to work round his right, thus
preventing the operations of our troops against the left flank
of the enemy being interfered with.
1 We have all fresh in our memories the action of yesterday
week, the I3th of October, at Geluk. Brigadier-General
Mahon reports to me the splendid and gallant behaviour of
the 1 4th Hussars, and that owing to the steadiness of all
ranks he was enabled to withdraw from a difficult position
with fewer casualties than would otherwise have been
the case.
4 Throughout this long and trying campaign you have
borne, without a murmur, short rations and exposure, hard
work and harassing outpost duty ; but the war is nearly
over, and can only last a few weeks longer — perhaps for
you only a few days, as we are going to Pretoria. It is un-
necessary, in fact it would be an insult, for me to ask a
regiment that has behaved throughout the campaign as you
have to continue to its close the excellent conduct you have
hitherto displayed.'
The march from Bethel to Heidelberg was as follows : —
422 HISTORICAL RECORD OF [1900
Miles.
October 22. Rooikop, . ./ . . 12
,, 23. Winkel Hoek, . . . '." 12
„ 24. Kaffirkraal, .. . . V" 12
,, 25. Witkop, . '. '. . 12
,, 26. Heidelberg, . ". . .;.' 12
All through these marches the Boers in small numbers
hung about the flanks and rear of the cavalry, and took every
opportunity they could of 'sniping.' On the 22nd, outside
Bethel, the Fourteenth were engaged, but repulsed the attack
aided by the guns, which shelled the enemy. On the 23rd
the outposts were fired on, and on the 24th the rearguard
was much pressed.
Major- General Dickson, C.B., after the Fourteenth were
withdrawn from the 4th Cavalry Brigade, addressed the follow-
ing complimentary letter, dated 29th October 1900, to Lieu-
tenant-Colonel G. Hamilton :—
Complimentary ' MY DEAR COLONEL, — Had I been aware when your
ai regiment left my brigade l that it was not returning to it, I
C.B. should have had the pleasure of placing on record a farewell
order stating how much I appreciated its services, and thank-
ing all ranks for the ready assistance given on all occasions.
The young officers commanding squadrons lead them with
marked ability and success. The conduct of the men in the
field, often engaged under a very heavy fire, was all that
could be desired. Will you kindly inform all ranks how much
I regret losing their services ; and wishing you and the gallant
Fourteenth prosperity and good fortune. — Believe me, yours
very truly, (Signed) J. B. B. DICKSON, Major-General,
' Commanding ^th Cavalry Brigade.
' To LT.-COL. HAMILTON,
' Commanding \^th Hussars!
1 The Fourteenth had belonged to the 4th Brigade until the reorganisation of
brigades took place at Machadodorp, when they were posted to the brigade under
Brigadier-General B. T. Mahon, D.S.O., I2th Lancers.
1900] THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 423
On 3oth October the cavalry moved from Heidelberg to
Springs, 20 miles. On 3ist, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts,
Commanding-in-Chief in South Africa, being en route by
train from Pretoria to Johannesburg, came and inspected
the Cavalry Division, which was formed up in line of masses,
a battery of Royal Horse Artillery being with each of the
three cavalry brigades. There was also present the half
battalion of the Suffolk Regiment,1 which had been attached
to Major-General Dickson's Brigade on the march from
Machadodorp.
On the ist November the Cavalry Division marched to At Pretoria,
Rietfontein, 12 miles; 2nd, to Rietvlei, 10 miles; 3rd, t°v
Pretoria, 12 miles. The Fourteenth encamped 2| miles west
of Pretoria, this being the first occasion of their using tents
since leaving Bloemfontein six months previously.
This great cavalry march of French's Division now con- End of the
eluded has been classed as one of the notable achievements
of the war. The difficulties of marching through an enemy's
country with a small force and a huge convoy cannot be over-
estimated, and the cavalry as well as the horse artillery were
under very serious disadvantages owing to the inferiority of
the cavalry carbines to the enemy's rifles in point of range
capacity, and the calibre of our horse artillery guns being
unable to cope on equal terms with those brought against
them by the Boers. The short rest at Pretoria was devoted
to re-equipping the various regiments for future operations by
which it was hoped to bring the war to a final conclusion,
Although the formal annexation to the British Empire of
the Orange Free State took place on the 28th May, and
although Lord Roberts hoisted the Union Jack at Pretoria
on the 5th June, and published his proclamation annexing
the Transvaal on the ist September,2 still the war is not yet
1 Two companies of the Suffolk Regiment helped to drive off the enemy
when the rearguard of the convoy was attacked en route to Heidelberg on 26th
October.
2 This proclamation had been issued on 4th July 1900.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
[1900
Lieut. -Colonel
Gilbert Hamil-
ton appointed
Brigadier-
General of
Cavalry, 2ist
November
1900.
March of the
4th Cavalry
Brigade to
Heidelberg,
22nd Novem-
ber 1900.
brought to an end.1 The Boers in considerable numbers,
led by Generals De Wet, Botha, Delarey, and Viljoen,
have for many months been carrying on a desultory guerilla
warfare and dacoity of the worst type in various parts
of the Transvaal, Orange River and Cape Colonies, thus
postponing the final end of hostilities and the settlement of
the country under British rule.
Whilst resting at Pretoria in November the Fourteenth
refitted throughout. In the first place 300 remounts joined,
and 212 dismounted men rejoined the regiment; secondly,
clothing of all sorts was received, as well as new blankets,
waterproof sheets, belts, arms, and a fresh supply of every-
thing, including saddlery, required to complete existing de-
ficiencies.
On the 2ist November, Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert H. C.
Hamilton, i4th Hussars, was appointed Brigadier-General
to command the 4th Cavalry Brigade, consisting of the 7th
Dragoon Guards, 8th Hussars, I4th Hussars, and 'O' Battery
Royal Horse Artillery.
On the 22nd November the 4th Brigade started to march
from Pretoria to Heidelberg via Springs, with orders to clear
the country of marauding bands.
The brigade marched to Groetfontein, 16 miles. The 8th
Hussars had been withdrawn from the 4th Brigade and sent
to Brigadier-General Broadwood's Brigade to replace the
Household Cavalry recently ordered home. The strength of
the 4th Brigade was therefore only 920 horses exclusive of
officers' chargers ; the men were armed with rifles ranging to
2800 yards instead of carbines ranging only to 1200 yards as
previously. On the 23rd the brigade marched to Knopies-
fontein, 13 miles; on 24th to Springs, 13 miles. On the same
day Lieutenant-General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces,
came to see the Brigadier, and returned to Johannesburg
next day.
1 December 1900.
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Field- Marshal the Right Honourable Earl Roberts, V.C.,
K.G., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., being expected to
pass down the line of railway to visit Colenso on his way
home on the 29th or 3oth November, the 4th Brigade was
ordered to assist in guarding the line between Greylingstad
and Heidelberg and to co-operate with Major-General Cooper.
On the 3<Dth this brigade made a night-march in order to 4th Brigade
get round to the north of the commando of Boers under Hans jlSScept Hans
Botha, who was reported to be occupying a strong position
on the hills north-east of Heidelberg. Major-General Cooper 1900.
was to attack him on the south, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Arthur Colville's column to approach him on the east. The
4th Brigade bivouacked near Nigel, advanced early on ist
December to a point north-east of a range of hills supposed
to be occupied by the Boers, and shelled the ridge at Uitkyk,
which was occupied ; but the Boers trekked to the east out
of reach, and the most commanding hill of the whole range
was then occupied by the troops of the brigade. Subsequently
the entire range was taken possession of by the infantry of
Lieutenant - Colonel Colville's column. The 4th Brigade
captured 400 cattle and 6 mules and arrived in Heidelberg
the same evening, having covered 10 miles' distance on the
night of 3Oth November, and on the ist December, 25 miles.
On 3rd December, 200 men, i pom-pom, and 10 wagons Employed in
under Major Brown, i4th Hussars, cleared twelve farms in the December""5'
vicinity, and brought in a large supply of cattle, sheep, mealies, I9°°-
and straw, after sending in the families to Heidelberg.
On 4th December the brigade covered 32 miles and
cleared several farms with only one casualty, a man severely
wounded, collecting 700 cattle, 2000 sheep, and 60 horses.
On the 7th the 4th Brigade left Heidelberg at i A.M., and
arrived at Schoongezicht at 12 noon, co-operating with Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Colville's movable column. At Nek, west of
Schikfontein, a body of the enemy in a commanding position
opposed further advance ; but after our guns had shelled them
out of it, the force cleared several farms in the vicinity, cap-
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tured 60 cattle and 1000 sheep, and burned the Boers' laager.
The 4th Brigade covered 30 miles that day, and marched on
the 8th December 8 miles to Heidelberg, spreading out on a
front of 8 miles so as to clear all the farms of forage and collect
the cattle scattered on the hills. There were 2 1 farms cleared
and 1 1 farms burned, the latter having been used either as bases
Captures made of operations or for treachery. Total captures made by the 4th
by 4th Cavalry D • J i 1 i • r
Brigade, brigade : — i SOD sheep, 500 cattle, and n prisoners of war.
December Qn ^^ £)ecemDer the 4th Cavalry Brigade and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel A. Colville's movable column, under Major-
General Cooper, marched south from Heidelberg to clear out
Boers who were occupying a tract of country 16 miles off. On
the 1 3th the infantry attacked the enemy on the north-west
flank, whilst the cavalry worked round to the south-east to
cut them off: a large number of Boers escaped before it was
possible to surround them owing to the difficult nature of
the ground. The casualties were only 2 men wounded of the
7th Dragoon Guards. On the i4th the 4th Brigade moved
10 miles further to the north-east; on the i5th orders were
received to return to Heidelberg and to proceed thence to
Krugersdorp.
4th Cavalry On the 1 6th December the 4th Brigade marched from
marches to Heidelberg, and part of it reached Krugersdorp, 48 miles,
i6?hgDecemPber on tne i?th, being urgently required. News came that De
1900. Wet had broken through the circle surrounding him in the
south-east corner of the Orange River Colony, and had got
away to the north-east. The 4th Brigade had marched 22
miles on the i6th to Natal Spruit, when orders came for it
to be entrained at Elandsfontein, 6 miles off, and to proceed
to Cape Colony instead of to Krugersdorp, to act against
De Wet's force which had escaped that way. Later on another
order was received, that the brigade was to go to Krugersdorp
by quickest route.
Early on i7th part of the brigade proceeded by march
and part by rail to Krugersdorp, and late that night the 7th
Dragoon Guards and a section of the Royal Horse Artillery
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were ordered to entrain next day for the south. This was ist Cavalry
effected on the morning of the 1 8th, and on the i gth a force
marched from Krugersdorp under Lieutenant-General French
to Steinkoppies, 15 miles, consisting of the ist Cavalry Brigade to relieve
under Brigadier- General Gordon, to which were added 2 ciements's
squadrons of the i4th Hussars, 4 guns Royal Horse Artillery,
and 2 pom-poms belonging to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which I9°°-
was now broken up ; the Scots Guards under Lieutenant-
Colonel Pulteney, D.S.O. ; an ox convoy and baggage, 500
men of the Dublin Fusiliers, 2 squadrons of the i4th Hussars,
and a section of the Royal Horse Artillery, under Brigadier-
General G. Hamilton. This was a relief force for Major-
General Clements, who was opposed by 2000 Boers at
Hekpoort, and the intention was to prevent the enemy
escaping to the west. The ist Brigade under Brigadier-
General Gordon pushed on beyond Vlakfontein, and killed
49 of the enemy, but were not in time to prevent the escape
of the main body, which got away to the west.
On 2Oth this force marched to Boschfontein, 14 miles,
passing Major-General Clements, who was going westwards.
On 2 ist Brigadier-General Gordon was commanding the
whole force, and Brigadier-General G. Hamilton, i4th Hussars,
commanded the ist Cavalry Brigade, with the whole of the
Fourteenth and section of ' O ' Battery Royal Horse Artillery.
On reaching Vlakfontein, 10 miles, the Boers were found
occupying two ridges to our right. The Scots Greys, Innis-
killings, and 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) were in
advance, with 2 guns and a pom-pom ; the Fourteenth and
other guns, close up, formed a second line. The enemy fled
after the first line attacked, the shrapnel from our guns
killing a few.
On 22nd the ist Brigade and Fourteenth, with the rest of
the force, moved to Hartebeestfontein, 3 miles, Lieutenant-
General French and a squadron of the Inniskillings having
previously gone to Krugersdorp. On the 23rd they moved to
Stinkhoutboom, 25 miles.
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On the 24th this force marched four miles to Welverdiend
Station, making a reconnaissance in the afternoon to Mooi
Escape of River and back. Lieutenant the Honourable H. Grosvenor,
Lieutenant the ir r 1 T->
Honourable with a patrol of 24 men of the Fourteenth, was attacked by
patroir,°24th°r S the enemy, numbering 70. He was outflanked, but cleverly
December avoided capture, losing 2 men and 1 1 horses.
Brigadier-General Broadwood, i2th Lancers, arrived the
same day with his brigade, consisting of 8th Hussars, loth
Hussars, and I2th Lancers, coming from Rustenburg. On 25th
both brigades moved 10 miles north to Leeuw Pan, where there
was no water; and on 26th to Rietfontein, near Vlakfontein.
Movements to Beyers, with a commando of i soo Boers, was now believed
cutoff Beyers's , . . t .... r
commando fail, to be in the hills south of Wclgevonden and west 01 Mooi
iejoo.™11 River; Delarey, with 1400 Boers and 6 guns, was 12 miles to
the north of Rietfontein. The British force was therefore
halfway between these two bodies of the enemy. The inten-
tion was to attack Beyers from the north, while Brigadier-
General Knox, now commanding Broadwood's Cavalry Brigade,
attacked from the east ; and a third column, under Colonel
Kekewich, was to attack from the south. Lieutenant-General
French was with Knox's Brigade. On the 27th the ist
Brigade moved south, the three columns converged on Beyers,
but he escaped by the open door to the west. Delarey did
not approach at all. The ist Brigade bivouacked at Wel-
gevonden, and marched towards Ventersdorp on the 28th,
getting touch with Knox's Brigade, which was also marching
on Ventersdorp, under Lieutenant-General French. The ist
Brigade was now ordered to march to Modderfontein, 14 miles
distant.
Brigadier- On the 2Qth December, Brigadier-General Gordon resumed
Hamilton command of the ist Cavalry Brigade, and Brigadier- General
commandant at ^' Hamilton,1 1 4th Hussars, was appointed administrator
Ventersdorp, and commandant at Ventersdorp, a town 12 miles distant
1900. from Modderfontein, and accordingly he proceeded there on
1 Lieutenant-Colonel (local Brigadier-General) G. H. C. Hamilton was promoted
Brevet-Colonel 2gth November 1900.
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the same day. The Fourteenth were now divided amongst i4th Hussars
three different brigades which had orders to assist in various fmonglt three
operations about to take place for clearing the Southern seParafe b"-
r L ° gades in
Transvaal of the guerilla Boer commandoes still infesting the Southern
i i /-* i T> • i Transvaal,
country: two squadrons went to the ist Cavalry Brigade, one 3 ist December
squadron to Major-General Clements's i2th Brigade, and the1900'
remaining squadron to Major-General Babington's Brigade.
These brigades moved off during the last days of December,
with the exception of Major-General Babington's, which did
not leave Ventersdorp till 2nd January 1901. It is now time
to close this Historical Record, which ends with the century.
The war is not, however, yet finished, and we take leave of
the gallant I4th (King's) Hussars, still well to the front on
active service, and adding fresh lustre to their already high
and distinguished reputation. It will remain for other, and
it is to be hoped abler, hands to continue the narrative in
the future.
REGIMENTAL ALMANACK OF THE
i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS— 1891
'DOURO'
' FUENTES D'ONOR '
•VITTORIA'
'PENINSULA'
1 CHILLIANWALLAH '
'PERSIA'
'TALAVERA'
'SALAMANCA'
' ORTHES'
'PUNJAUB'
'GOOJERAT'
'CENTRAL INDIA'
ROLL OF OFFICERS
Colonel.
Thompson, Lieut.-Gen.C.W.(Hon. Gen.),
I May 1882.
Lieut.-Colonel.
Hamilton, H.B., 17 March '86. Com.Regt.,
i July '87. Bt.-Col., 17 March '90.
Majors.
Gough, Hon. G. H., 16 December 1885.
(Brevet- Colonel, 16 December 1889.)
English, A. J., 17 August 1887.
Burke, M. A., u Dec. 1888. (28 July '86.)
Captains.
King, A. C, 12 July 1884.
Kirk, H., i July 1887.
Richardson, L. J., 24 March 1888.
Richardson, R. M., 25 July 1888.
Miller, Sir J. P., Bart. (Adjt.), 8 Sept. 1888.
Robertson, S., 1 8 December 1889.
Spencer-Stanhope, W., n June 1890.
Lieutenants.
Murray, J., 27 January 1886.
Tickell, E. J., 7 February 1885.
Miller, D. M., 8 August 1888.
Stacey, C., 8 August 1888.
Brooksbank, R. G., 5 December 1888.
Hamilton, J. D., 6 March 1889.
Hughes, H. B. L., 10 April 1889.
Eley, W. G., 12 March 1890.
Second- Lieutenants.
St. Maur, R. H., 23 October 1889.
Stephen, R. C., 2 April 1890.
Prevost, W., 8 November 1890.
Adjutant.
Miller, Sir J. P., Bart., Capt., i Sept. 1888.
Riding- Master.
Odium, R. (Hon. Capt.), 9 June 1888.
Quartermaster.
Mugford, F. (Hon. Lieut), 20 Sept. 1882.
Veterinary Surgeon (attached).
Spooner, W. B., 26 Nov. 1886. (Vet. surg.
ist class, ranking as capt., 26 Sept. '84.)
Supernumerary Officers.
In extra regimental appointments.
Capt. G. H. C. Hamilton, Adjt. ist West
York Yeomanry Cavalry, 22 Feb. '88.
Capt. H. W. Mitchell, Adjt. Middlesex
Yeomanry Cavalry, i Sept. 1888.
Capt. A. B. Broadhurst, Adjt. Ayrshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, 8 Sept. 1888.
Capt. E. D. Brown, Commandant Aux.
Cav. School, Aldershot, i Jan. 1890.
Warrant Officers.
Haines, H., Regimental Sergeant-Major,
31 December 1889.
Hemsley, H., Bandmaster, i April 1887.
The Regiment returned from India 24^/1 November 1886. Stationed at Hounslow,
Hampton Court, and Kensington since September 1890.
Establishment : — 24 officers, 423 men, 59 chargers, 281 troop-horses.
»*f The lists of former Colonels and Lieutenant-Colonels are not reprinted in the Almanack, as they are
contained on pages 462-64.
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1840 Straight swords issued. 1873 'D'Newbdge.to
1715 Orgnl. formation of regt. in E'gland [Curragh
1876 Detachment embarked on Euphrates for India
1876 Hdqrs. embarked on Euphrates for India
1876 Sailed from Portsmouth for India
1867 Lieut. -Colonel P. S. Thompson to Colonel
1842 Inspected at Kirkee by Sir C. Napier
1855 Received orders for Crimea at Meerut
1835 One troop Ennis to Gal way
1816 Estbt. 8 troops of 4 S. I Tp. i Fr. 75 R.and F.
1827 Dublin to Athlone and Baliinrobe
1835 One troop Longford to Castlebar
1849 Chillianwallah — Lieut. Cureton killed.
1 858 ' E ' escorted siege-train from Indore to Sehore
1835 One tr. Gal way to Loughrea. '63 'D' Man-
1835 One tr. Loughrea to Gort [chester to Bury
1876 Depot troop Colchester to Canterbury
1876 At Port Said in H.M.S. Euphrates
1851 Left Lahore for Meerut
1 876 At Suez. '83 Insptd. by M. -Gen. Sir C. Keyes
1882 Right wing at Secunderabad
1845 Inspected at Kirkee by Major-Gen. MacNeil
1855 Meerut to Kirkee
1860 Depot from Maidstone to Newbridge
1815 A boat containing Lieut. Bridges and 37 men
1835 One troop Castlebar to Longford [captured
1858 Major Scudamore at capture of Rathgur
1858 Right wing at Barodia
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1872 Detachment Fermoy to Listowel
1859 To wear 'Persia' on cap- plates, etc.
1872 Detachment Ballincollig to Killarney
1872 Detachment Limerick to Listowel
1842 L.-Corpl. J. Lewis found drowned at Kirkee
1876 Bombay signalled from Euphrates
1876 Disembarked at Bombay and arrd. at Poona
1829 Lapels for Light Cavalry abolished
1876 Poona to Sholapore
1860 Hdqrs. embarked for England under Colonel
1876 Karchore to Arkonum [Scudamore
1889 Officers' Ball in Royal Pavilion, Brighton
1876 Ar. at Bangalore. '81 Ins.byM.-Gl.Payn,C.B.
1 848 Umballa to Ferozepore. '86 Ins. by M. -Genl.
1872 Detacht. Dingle to B'collig [Gordon, C.B.
1 88 1 'C' Bangalore to Bombay
1866 ' D,' ' E,' and • C ' Aldershot to Hounslow
1857 Kirkee to Persia [Standard
1849 Goojerat; Lt. Lloyd killed. Corp. Pain capd.
1 83 1 Hdqrs. 'A' and 'B' Bangalore for Bombay
1866 Aldershot to Hounslow under Major Brown
1831 One troop Coventry to Kidderminster
1881 ' C' embarked at Bombay for Natal
1814 Orthes. 1846 Arrived at Agra
1881 ' D,' ' H,' and ' K ' Bangalore for Bombay
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1832 One troop Clifton to Sudbury [for Natal
1858 Right wing at Muddenpore
1828 Athlone to Birmingham
181 1 Advance-guard in pursuit of Marshal Massena
1851 Lahore to Meerut
1814 Captain Townsend taken prisoner at Pau
[Natal
1881 'D,"H,'and 'K' embarked at Bombay for
1814 Captain Babington taken prisoner at Pau
1870 One squadron Athlone to Tuam
1810 Advcd. post of Gen. Hill's Corps at Aronches
1820 Permitted to wear c Talavera' on colours and
1846 Agra to Meerut [appointments
1890 Lieut. -Colonel H. B. Hamilton to Colonel
1 88 1 Hdqrs. ' A ' and ' B ' disembarked at Natal
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1812 Badajos. '45 Two sq. returned from Kolapore
1858 Left wing at Jhansi, 70 miles in 2 days
1828 Inspected at Dublin by Sir G. Murray
1815 Two squads, sailed from America for England
1800 Estab. to 90 rank and file per troop
1863 ' H' Staley bridge to Manchester
1857 ' H ' or Captain Prettejohn's at capture of
1863 ' G ' Ashton to Staleybridge [Mohamra
1871 ' D ' Fermoy to Clonmel
1833 i sq. eoiTsd. at Bristol for Dublin [i4th L. D.
1872 I troop Limerick to Gal way. '47 Lt. Need to
1857 Hdqrs. at Bushire. 1848 Lt Gall to Capt.
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1858 ' A ' or Capt. Need's distinguished at Betwa
1833 H'low to Dublin. '88 Easter VoL Rvw. , Dover
1888 D. of Cambridge lunched withofficersat Shorn-
1836 One tr. Dundalk to Carrickmacross [clifTe
1830 Leeds to Brighton. 1858 Capture of Jhansi
1815 'Peninsula' on colours, etc. 1837 Glasgow to
1834 Dublin to Longford [Edinburgh
1834 One troop Dublin to Gort
1841 Two troops Dorchester to Canterbury
1814 Toulouse. 1889 Establishment 281 horses
1835 Dress of Band same as Tptrs. 1881 Estcourt
1832 Hdqrs. Stroud to Gloucester
1887 Reviewed by D. of Cambridge at Shorncliffe
1809 Advance-guard from Lisbon to Coimbra
1829 Overalls chd. from blue-grey to Oxford mix.
1829 Lt.-Col. Townsend to command vice Lt.-CoI-
1881 Estcourt to Ladysmith [Baker retired
1825 Hounslow to Cork. '39 BTiam. to Hounslow
1839 Second party Leeds to Chichester
1825 Disembarked at Waterford
1855 Arrived at Kirkee from Meerut, 75 marches
1830 Recruiting suspd. '45 Col. Townsend died at
1867 'A' and 'C' Hounslow to Newcastle [Cork
1839 Two troops Coventry to Hounslow
1858 'A,' 'C,' and 'E' under Col. Gall to Koonch
1859 First party Gwalior to Bombay
1831 Three troops Coventry to Nuneaton
1855 Inspected at Kirkee by Brigdr.-Gen. Trydell
1887 Inspt.bySirB.Russell,K.C.B.,etc.,atSh'cline
1830 Detacht. to Chichester. '41 Gen. Thompson
[joined I4th Hussars as Lieut.
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1882 Gen. Thompson app. Col. '87 Cruppers disc'd.
1889 Inspt. by M. -Gen. Moore. '88 Inspt. by Sir B.
1809 Rvd.bySirA. Wellesleyat Coimbra [Russell
1839 Pistols for ranks discd. '67 Hdqrs. to Edinr.
1811 Fuentes d'Onor, Capt. Knipe wounded
1857 Persia to Kirkee. '67 ' D ' H'low to Hamilton
1858 'C ' took a gun at Koonch. '88 Estbt. 469
1890 Inspected by Maj.-Gen. Moore at Brighton
1829 Birmingham to Leeds. '68 ' B ' & 'D ' to New-
1809 Advcd. Picquets on march to Douro [bdge.
1848 Left wing Ferozepore to Lahore [of Douro
1809 Twosq. under Mj.Hervey distingd. at passage
1862 Dundalk to M'chester. '68 'A'& 'H'toNew-
1814 Rvd. at Bordeaux by Lord Dalhousie [bdge.
1871 'H' Waterford to Limerick, 'C' Carrick to
1815 Two sq. rejoined regt. at Hounslow [Bandon
1833 Inspected at Dublin by Sir E. Blakeney
i86S ' C,' 'G,' and ' K' Hamilton to Newbridge
1835 One troop Gort to Dundalk
1872 ' D ' Fermoy and ' G ' Clogheen to Newbridge
1868 Hdqrs. and ' E' to Newbridge
1858 Capture of Golowlee under Col. Scudamore
l%$9 Jhansi to Bombay. 1872 Hdqrs. B'collig to
1834 Guidons in Lt. Dgs. discontd. [Newbridge
1874 ' C ' and ' D ' Dublin to Aldershot
1813 Salamanca. 1836 Dundalk to Glasgow
1874 Hdqrs. ' E ' and ' G ' to Aldershot [lightng.
1885 Lts. Bentley-Innes and Seymour killed by
1835 Inspt. at Dundalk by M.-Gen Macdonell
1874 Dismounted party Dublin to Aldershot
M 1795 Clonmel to St. Domingo under Col. Carter
Tu 1838 One troop Carlisle to Bath
W 1 1860 Plymouth to Newbridge [command
Th 1811 Col. Hawker to Major-Gen. ; Col. Hervey to
Fr 1859 Bombay to Kirkee [to Salamanca
Sa 1812 Advance-guard of Lord Lynedoch's Column
fe 1834 Inspected at Longford by Sir J. Buchan
M 1857 Left wing to Ahmednuggur
Tu 1888 Regt. encamped at Cove Common, Aldershot
W 1814 Bordeaux to Calais. '82 Lt.-Col. Morton to
Th 1819 Embarked at Dublin for H'nslow [i4th Hrs.
Fr 1813 Burgos. 1832 Gloucester to Hounslow
Sa 1842 Insptd. at Kirkee by Sir T. McMahon, Bart.
% 1841 Embarked for India. '76 Col. Campbell died
M 1881 Major J, H. Knox to Lt.-Col. [at Bangalore
Tu 1812 In front of Salamanca, I Sgt. and I Tr. kill'd.
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Th 1838 Edinburgh to Birmingham
Fr 1830 Brighton. 1858 Capture of Gwalior
Sa 1832 Depot, Coventry to Hounslow
% 1813 Vittoria. 1858 ' H ' at Alipore
M 1860 'C ' and ' E ' at Gravesend for Newbridge
Tu 1833 Detachment Longford to Ballinasloe
W 1810 To Light Division under General Crauford
Th 1832 Four troops Hounslow to Kensington
Fr 1832 Four troops Kensington to Hounslow
Sa 1831 One squadron Coventry to Abergavenny
% 1889 Regt. encamped Farnboro' Com., Aldershot
M 1830 Maj.-Gen. Sir E. Kerrison to be Colonel
Tu 1858 Lt. Leith received V.C. 1887 Col. Morton
[to half pay
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1887 Lt.-Col. H. B. Hamilton to command Regt.
1812 Took Outposts on the Douro
1874 No. Camp to So. Cav. Bks., Aldershot
1813 Outpost duty in front of Maya, Pyrenees
1872 ' H ' Newbridge to Curragh
1833 Hdqrs. Dublin to Newry
1888 Duke of Cambridge's review at Aldershot.
1889 Cavalry Column, Woolmer
1887 Two sq. at Queen's Jubilee Review, Aldershot
1857 1 20 rank and file to Deccan Field Force
1810 Ciudad Rodrigo, 2 offs. and II men killed, 19
1831 Birmingham to Glos'ter for riots [wounded
1875 Aid 'shot to Coldingly. 89 Ald't from Woolmer
1890 Inspt. bySirDrury Lowe, K.C.B., Brighton
1857 Hdqrs. to Deccan Field Force
1812 Rearguard on the retreat from Rueda
1814 Disembarked at Dover & marched to London
1812 Castrillos, Maj. Brotherton wounded, 8 men
1833 Two tr. Armagh to Dublin [& 20 hor. kill'd
1869 istsq. D'blintoCrrgh. '74 Ald'shot to Wool-
1814 Rvd. at H'low by H.R.H. C.-in-C. [mer
1812 Salamanca, 4 men killed. '30 B'ton to London
1812 Hanley's patrol. '87 Won Cambdge. Shield
1888 ' B,' • D,' ' H,' and ' K ' detached at Hilsea
1810 To Torres Vedras. '88 Hdqrs. at Brighton
1798 Red. title of ' The Duchess of York's Own '
1830 Title chngd. to King's Lt.Dns. by K. Wm. IV.
1809 Talavera, 5 officers wounded, 2 men and 30
1830 London to Birmingham [horses killed
1866 At Buckingham Palace for Reform League
1819 Kersey overalls of dark or blue-grey [Riots
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1830 All Cavalry in red except R. H. Gds. (Blue)
1858 ' C ' and ' E ' from Jhansi under Maj. Thompson
1813 Outpost duty in front of Maya, Pyrenees
1821 Estabt.to6tr.ofi T.S.M., 2 S., I Fr. I Tr. &
1889 Empr. Germany's Revw. Ald't. [50 R. and F.
1865 Insptd. Ald'shot by Lord G. Paget. '89 ' A '
[and ' B ' to Hilsea
1887 Insptd. by SirDruryLowe,K.C.B.,at Shorn-
[cliffe
1889 Hdqrs. at Brighton
1861 Lieut.-Col. Scudamore received Good Service
[Pension
1 86 1 Prince of Wales dined with Regt. at New-
1881 ' D ' and ' H ' Ladysmith to Zululand [bridge
1 86 1 Converted into Hussars
1849 Hdqrs. and right wing Ferozepore to Lahore
1831 Hdqrs. Tewkesbury to Gloucester
1831 One troop Abergavenny to Llandilo
1871 ' C ' Bandon to Kinsale
1835 One troop Dundalk to Belfast
1871 ' C ' Kinsale to Bandon
1 86 1 Reviewed by Queen Victoria on the Curragh
1835 Detachment Maghera to Belfast
1839 Thanks of H.M. the Queen Dowager
1816 Establishment reduced to 440 rank and file
1831 One troop Dowlais to Abergavenny
1856 Colonel Doherty, C.B., to England
1814 Twosq. sailed from Plymouth for G. of Mexico
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
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1831 One troop Llandilo to Abergavenny
1890 Regt. encamped at Cove Common, Aldershot
[Bury
1841 Arrived at Bombay. 1862 'A' Manchester to
1799 Permitted to wear the Prussian Eagle
1846 Maj. J. W. King to I4th L.D. '90 In camp,
1890 Cavalry manoeuvres began in Berks. [Churn
1890 Regiment encamped at Blewberry
1826 Inspected at Dublin by Sir C. Grant
1 86 1 ' H ' to Belturbet, ' G ' to Belfast
1 86 1 Newbridge to Dundalk. 1890 In camp,
[Uffington
1890 Grand march-past, Chilton Downs, Berks.
1873 ' B ' Newbridge to Dublin
1857 Captain R. H. Gall to Major [Brighton
1889 Inspected by Sir Drury Lowe, K.C.B., at
1877 The Viceroy visited regimental theatre at
1890 In camp at Crookham [Bangalore
1890 Encamped Ald'shot from cavalry manoeuvres
1858 'C'and 'E' at Garotha under Mj. Thompson
1816 Front peak of saddles cut down [Hounslow
1875 Insp. at Colchester by Dk. of Cambridge. '90
1831 Two tr. Gloucester to Abergavenny [H'slow
1811 Engaged with 4 regiments of enemy's lancers
1870 ' B ' Cahir to Fethard [at Espeja
1875 InsP- at Colchester by Sir T. W. M^Mahon, Bt.
1819 Lieut.-Col. Baker to command vice Sir F.
[Hervey deceased
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1841 Reed. 150 volunteers from 4th Lt. Dragoons
1841 Second party arrived at Bombay
1871 Insptd. at Ballincollig by Maj. -Gen. Wardlaw
1858 'B' and 'D' flying col. under Col. Scudamore
1844 Squadron to Kolapore on field service
1887 Duke of Cambridge's review near Dover
1874 Inspt. at Aldershot by Sir T. W. McMahon, Bt.
1 890 Inspt . at Hounslow by Sir Drury Lowe, K. C. B.
1888 Inspt. by Sir D. Lowe, K.C.B., at Brighton
1868 Inspt. at Newbridge by Brig. -General Little
1890 Inspt. by Maj. -Gen. P. Smith, C. B. , Hounslow
1860 Inspt. at Newbridge by Major-General Parlby
1888 'B*and 'D' Hilsea to Brighton
1844 ' A ' squadron to Kolapore on field service
1869 Inspt. at Curragh by Brig. -Gen. Wardlaw
1868 Newbridge to Dublin
1869 Half of second squadron Curragh to Longford
1857 Left wing captured 3 guns and 3 standards
1839 Percuss, carbines issd. '69 Curragh to Long-
1885 Col. J. H. Knox died at Secunderabad [ford
1831 Two troops Gloucester to Sodbury
1831 Two troops Sodbury to Clifton
1823 Lieut. -Gen. Sir J. Vandeleur to be Colonel
1850 Inspt. at Lahore by Sir W. Gilbert [strong
1886 Regt. left Bombay in H.M.S. Serapis, 405
1831 One tr. under Mj. Beckwith to Bristol for riots
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
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1831 Detachment Gloucester to Newport
1832 One troop Gloucester to Tewkesbury
1832 One troop Bristol to Gloucester
1832 Detachment Tewkesbury to Gloucester
1 88 1 Ladysmith for Durban
1832 One troop Abergavenny to Tredegar
1878 Received orders for service in Afghanistan
1832 One troop Tredegar to Abergavenny
1842 Draft of I sergt. and 99 men from England
1813 Entered France with Sir R. Hill's Division
1841 Lt.-Gl. KerrisontoGl. 'SiPinetownforD'ban
1841 Insptd. at Kirkee by Sir T. McMahon, Bart.
1 88 1 Right wing embarked at Durban
1868 ' C ' and ' G ' Dublin to Dundalk
1813 Outpost duty on the Nive
1812 Repulsed superior body of enemy's lancers
1886 Lieut.-Col. H. B. Hamilton to I4th Hussars
1837 Detachment Tewkesbury to Gloucester
1835 Detachment Ballyshannon to Glentees
1838 One squadron Northampton to Coventry
1857 Lieut. Dew and picquet routed 300 natives
1 848 R'nuggur ; L. -Cl . Havelock & Cap. Fitzgerald
1857 Mundesor ; Major Gall took 6 guns [killed
1878 Orders for Afghanistan cancelled
1886 Landed at Portsmouth, arrived at Shorncliffe
1861 Major-General Beckwith to Lieut. -General
1845 Insptd. at Kirkee by Sir T. M°Mahon, Bart.
1868 ' A ' Dundalk to Dublin [Bt., to half-pay
1833 Recruiting susp. '64 Lt. -Col. Sir W. Russell,
1869 One squadron Nenagh to Newbridge
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1839 One squadron Coventry to Northleach
1830 Headquarters Birmingham to Oxford
1830 One troop Kidderminster to Oxford
1830 One sq. Northleach to Burford [for Lisbon
1808 Embkd. at Falmouth under Lt.-Col. Hawker
1849 Insptd. at Meean Meer by the Gov. -General
1869 One squadron Newbridge to Athlone
1813 Crossed the Nive, 2 men and horses drowned
1882 Field manoeuvres at Secunderabad
1868 ' B,' ' E,' « H,' and « K ' Cork to Dublin
1813 Maj. Brother ton wounded and tkii. prisoner at
1810 With Light Division at Santarem [Hasparren
1845 Kirkee to Agra
1867 Detachment Glasgow to Hamilton [wounded
1858 ' A ' and ' H ' at Ranode. Major Prettejohn
1830 One troop Wellingborough to Northampton
1830 Hdqrs. Oxford to Coventry. '62 Bt. Lt.-Col.
1869 Onesq. Limerick to Bal'robe [Need to half-pay
1830 One troop Northleach to Coventry
1835 One troop Dundalk to Monaghan
1808 Landed at Lisbon
1878 Inspt. at Bangalore by Col. Wallace, R.H.A.
1818 Second assistant surgeon discontinued
1836 One troop Belturbet to Dundalk
1815 Embkd. at Bristol for Ireland under Lt.-Col.
1 88 1 Left wing disembarked at Bombay [Baker
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
435
REGIMENTAL MUSIC
The regiment has used ' The King of Prussia ' as its Regimental
regimental march for many years. It is a very fine march, SaprSKi
and was introduced by the late Major- General William
Arbuthnot, C.B., when he was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
the Fourteenth at Bangalore, in 1880.
The officers' ' Dress-Call ' for mess was introduced at Officers'
Hounslow in 1890, by Colonel H. B. Hamilton, commanding mess."0*
the regiment, and previous to this there was no special call for
this purpose in the i4th Hussars.
The 1 4th Hussars' 'Regimental Call' is the one prescribed in Regimental
the Trumpet and Bugle-Sounds for the Army, as follows : —
REGIMENTAL CALL
J=lo8.
Bugle
Trumpet
Mr. H. Hemsley, Bandmaster of the i4th Hussars, kindly
arranged the regimental music for the piano, as follows : —
REGIMENTAL MARCH ' KING OF PRUSSIA '
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THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 441
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THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
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REGIMENTAL ' QUICK-MARCH '
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446
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
TABLE OF SERVICES AT HOME AND ABROAD
HOMF.
ABROAD.
(Including the time occupied by sea voyages.)
Years and Countries in which
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Y. M.
Y. M.
Y. M.
Y. M.
Y. M.
Y. M.
Y. M.
1715-1717 (May) . .
I IO
I 10
1717-1742 (May) .
25 o
25 o
1742-1747 (May) .
5 o
5 o
1747-1795 (Feb.) .
47 9
47 9
1795-1797 (Oct.) .
2 8
2 8
1797-1808 (Dec.) .
II 2
II 2
1808-1814 (July) . . .
5 7
5 7
1814-1815 (Dec.) . - .'
i 5
i 5
1816-1819 (June) .
3 6
3 6
1819-1825 (April) .
5 10
5 10
1825-1828 (March). •'** .
2 II
2 II
1828-1833 (March). %.
5 o
c o
1833-1836 (May) .
3 2
3 2
1836-1841 (May) .
5 °
1841-1857 (March).
15 10
15 10
1857 (May) .
0 2
0 2
1857-1860 (June) .
3 I
3 i
1860-1862 (May) .
I II
III
1862-1868 (May) .
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6 o
1 868- 1 874 (May) .
6 o
6 o
1874-1876 (Jan.) .
i 8
i 8
1876-1881 (March) .
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5 2
5 2
1881 (Nov.) .
o 8
o 8
1881-1886 (Nov.) .
5 o
5 o
1 886- 1 894 (July) .
7 8
7 8
1894-1899 (Nov.) .
5 4
5 4
1899 (Nov.-Dec.) .
0 I
0 I
1899-1901 (July)
i 7
i 7
Total years and months
in each country .
50 8
95 7
2 8
5 7
29 i
0 2
2 3
186 o
AT HOME,
ABROAD,
1715-1901
Years.
146
39
Months.
3
186
NOTE. — Two squadrons (without horses) served
near the Gulf of Mexico, at New Orleans, Missis-
sippi River, North America, from August 1814 to
May 1815.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 447
CHANGES IN ESTABLISHMENT SINCE 1800
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Warrant
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Establishment on 25th December 1802,
8
28
8
24
456
436
ALTERATIONS SINCE ABOVE PERIOD.
Date of
Alteration.
Nature of Alteration.
June 1804
Dec. 1804
Dec. 1811
Augmented,
10
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44
54
10
10
40
50
760
950
854
1064
Augmented Schoolmaster-Sergeant,
Dec. 1815
Aug. 1816
and reduced, ....
Reduced, .....
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8
55
45
IO
8
8
40
32
760
584
864
581
Aug. 1821
Reduced, . . . • ' . -1 '.'
6
37
23
6
6
24
18
432
282
333
Oct. 1824
Jan. 1831
Hospital-Sergeant, ....
Orderly-Room Clerk and augmented
6
" O
24
6
6
18
28l
253
horses, .....
6
25
6
6
18
280
271
April 1834
April 1838
Reduced horses, ....
Augmented horses
6
6
J
25
25
6
6
6
6
18
18
280
280
*•/ *
253
271
Jan. 1841
April 1842
Dec. 1854
Augmented
Hospital-Sergeant, ....
Saddler-Sergeant and augmented, .
9
9
9
55
56
57
12
12
14
8
8
IO
40
40
4°
627
626
626
7OI
7OI
703
June 1857
Augmented,
IO
59
14
IO
40
626
April 1858
Schoolmaster-Sergeant reduced,
IO
58
14
IO
40
626
703
June 1860
Reduced, . . . . .
8
40
9
8
32
537
428
Nov. 1 86 1
Sergeant-Instructor of Musketry, .
8
9
8
32
J<Jf
536
428
April 1862
April 1866
Bandmaster,
Sergeant - Cook and Sergeant - In-
8
42
9
8
32
535
428
structor of Fencing, .
8
44
9
8
32
533
428
April 1869
Reduced, .....
Sqdns.
43
9
4
24
443
344
April 1870
Feb. 1871
Troops
I
39
43
8
9
4
8
21
32
386
515
300
384
Augmented
April 1872
Hospital-Sergeant reduced,
8
42
9
8
32
516
384
July 1 88 1
Trumpet-Major to Sergeant-Trum-
Jan. 1882
peter, and augmented,
Colonial to Indian establishment, .
8
7
41
37
2
2
8
7
8
6
32
27
510
510
400
400
Oct. 1886
Home establishment. No Depot, .
8
2
8
8
32
378
300
April 1887
Horses reduced, ....
8
41
2
8
8
32
378
250
Oct. 1887
Horses increased, ....
8
41
2
8
8
32
378
300
April 1889
Armourer-Sergeant attached ; Pay-
master-Sergeant reduced.
April 1890
Sergeant Master-Tailor and Orderly -
Room Sergeant added.
April 1891
Reduced, . ; . .
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4O
2
g
g
33
3OO
27O
Sqdns
JJ
J
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April 1892
Augmented,
4
40
2
8
8
33
328
280
April 1895
Augmented, .....
4
39
2
8
8
35
353
300
April 1897
Augmented,
4
42
2
8
4
24
460
343
Offrs
Sqdns
Oct. 1899
Higher establishment, . . 23
4
45
2
8
4
30
560
465
N.B. — The rank of Troop Sergeant-Major was introduced in 1809.
448 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
CHANGES IN UNIFORM
GEORGE I.
Dragoons.
1715. — Uniform scarlet. Silver aiguillette.
GEORGE II.
1751. — Uniform scarlet; facings lemon colour. (See
Warrant, p. 19.)
GEORGE III.
1768. — Uniform scarlet; facings lemon colour, without
lapels. Silver lace as in 1751. Silver epaulette for officers
and men instead of aiguillette. (See Warrant, p. 27.)
1773. — Officers wore embroidered epaulettes and button-
holes.
i^th Light Dragoons.
1 776. — Cocked hats replaced by helmets. Half-lapels worn.
1784. — Uniform blue; facings lemon-yellow. (See Regula-
tions, pp. 34, 35.)
1786. — Blue cloaks substituted for red ones. Black spatter-
dashes worn.
1790. — Narrow silver lace worn on the shells and frocks of
sergeants, in lieu of the silver chain which had been in use
hitherto.
1796. — Officers* crimson silk sash to be tied on right side.
The i ^th, or the Duchess of York's Own Regiment
of Light Dragoons.
1798. — Prussian Eagle given by royal authority as regi-
mental badge. Facings changed from lemon-yellow to orange,
J799- Queues ten inches long to be worn by cavalry.
Officer's Shako-Plate, from 1829 to 1860.
(Prussian Eagle worn in centre up to 1832.)
Officer's Button (xiv), from 1830 to about 1845
Officer's Button (14), from 1845 to 1856.
Universal Button worn on Tartan Frocks since 1899.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 449
1815. — Worsted webbed pantaloons and breeches dis-
continued in cavalry, and cloth overalls (grey speckled) to be
worn with half-boots instead. A later order of 1815 says the
overalls are to be blue-grey with white stripes. The men of the
Fourteenth probably wore orange stripes about this date, and
the officers silver lace stripes for full dress.
1816. — Overalls to be of kersey wove, and to be dark grey:
adopted in 1819 by i4th Light Dragoons.
1820. — Blue-grey pantaloons authorised: adopted in 1821
by 1 4th Light Dragoons.
GEORGE IV.
1821. — Officers' clothing regulated by Royal Warrant, 25th
April.
1823. — Light Dragoons to wear white and red horse-hair
plumes instead of the feather as hitherto.
1824. — Brass shoulder-scales instead of worsted epaulettes.
1827. — Substitution of white worsted lace down the outer
seam of the trousers, instead of stripes of cloth of the colour of
regimental facings.
1829. — Half-lapels abolished. New shako adopted with
Maltese cross ornament ; the Prussian eagle was worn in centre
of the cross until the King's crest was granted in 1832. Oxford
mixture overalls introduced on the i5th April.
WILLIAM IV.
The i^th (Kings] Light Dragoons.
1830. — Gold lace substituted for silver.
1i83i. — Uniform scarlet instead of blue; facings blue
instead of orange ; overalls dark blue in place of light grey.
1832. — The King's crest granted.
1835. — Bandsmen clothed liked trumpeters.
1 In August 1831 moustaches were abolished in the cavalry, excepting in the Life
Guards, Royal Horse Guards, and regiments of hussars, and an order issued directing
' the hair of the non-commissioned officers and soldiers to be cut close to the sides
and at the back of the head, instead of being worn in that bushy and unbecoming
fashion adopted by some regiments.' (From Colonel R. S. LiddelFs Memoirs of the
\Qth Hussars, p. 213.)
2 F
450 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
QUEEN VICTORIA.
1840. — Uniform blue; facings scarlet.
1841. — Cloaks made with sleeves.
1842. — Cloaks made without sleeves.
1849. — Yellow stripes on trousers adopted for light cavalry.
1855. — Light dragoons to wear jackets with five bars of
gold lace. No sabretache.
1856. — Plain leather sabretache authorised for officers and
sergeants of cavalry.
1857. — Shako covered with Paris velvet and leather top.
Plume of hair five inches above top of chaco, gilt plume-socket,
and corded ball with four upright rays of red and white colours.
1860. — Peaks to officers' caps discontinued, and gold stripes
on their overalls adopted in lieu of cloth ones, with the addition
of leather bootings. An embroidered silver eagle arm-badge
approved for sergeants.
(Kings) Hussars.
1 86 1. — Regiment converted into Hussars on i7th August.
Uniform blue ; busby-bags yellow ; plumes white. Scarlet
sabretaches for officers.
1867. — A sterling silver Prussian Eagle arm-badge approved
for sergeants, i4th Hussars; corporals to have German silver
arm-badge.1
1871. — Knee-boots to be worn by cavalry instead of booted
overalls as hitherto, and pantaloons introduced at same time.
Officers of hussars to wear oval gold-gimp lace bosses on their
boots, made detachable.
1888. — Sabretaches for non-commissioned officers and men
discontinued.
1890. — Blue serge frocks and field-service caps introduced
for manoeuvres and drill purposes.
1893. — Officers to wear yellow cloth stripes, like the men,
instead of gold lace stripes on their pantaloons, excepting in
1 All staff-sergeants and sergeants of the Fourteenth wear above their chevrons
as an arm-badge silver eagles, and all corporals wear German-silver eagles in the
same manner.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 451
levee dress ; and to wear, in undress, sword-belts of white
leather instead of gold lace. Head-ropes to be worn by officers'
chargers, same as in the ranks, in lieu of steel chains.1
1897. — Shabracques discontinued for officers. They were
abolished in the ranks about twenty-five years earlier. In the
Fourteenth the approved pattern was the old light dragoon
shabracque,2 with rounded corners, fore and hind ; lambskins
(black) edged with yellow cloth. With the new pattern cavalry
saddle, sheepskins are discontinued, but front and rear lamb-
skins are worn. The officers' lambskins, in the Fourteenth, arc
edged with yellow cloth. The officers' chargers' throat ornament
is white horse-hair, eighteen inches long, with brass ball and
socket. The bridle-bosses have the Prussian Eagle encircled by
a garter, within which is ' Fourteenth or The King's Hussars,'
and surmounted by a crown.
1899. — Stable-jackets discontinued in the ranks; officers
continue to wear them at mess only. Round forage-caps only
used by the men for walking out, and by officers occasion-
ally. The active service field-cap has been introduced generally
into the cavalry. The pattern for hussars is scarlet, with gold
piping for officers, and in the i4th Hussars an eagle badge is
worn on the left side. Blue tartan frocks (blue serges) have
been generally substituted for stable-jackets : with these
the 1 4th Hussars, officers and men, wear the eagle badges
on their collars, and steel shoulder-chains like other regiments.
The non-commissioned officers and men, in addition, wear
Arabic numerals (H) on their shoulders, fixed to the shoulder-
chains. Khaki clothing has been introduced for service in the
field. The i4th Hussars proceeded to South Africa wearing
khaki. The officers wore eagle badges on their collars, and
the men wore Arabic numerals on their shoulders (H). They
all wore white helmets covered with khaki.
1 Head-ropes had been worn on officers' chargers for several years previously,
but only on manoeuvres and for drill purposes.
2 In the coloured plate (facing p. 380) of an officer in 'review order,' 1891, the
officer's charger should carry a steel collar-chain instead of a head-rope, and in the
coloured plate, 1894 (facing p. 388), the officer's charger should carry a head-rope
instead of a collar-chain.
452 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
UNIFORM OF OFFICERS AND MEN.
officers' Officers' cloaks and capes are lined with yellow. The mess
waistcoat is scarlet cloth, with six bars of gold lace, and white
shirt collars are worn at mess, without authority. No cockades
are worn in their busbies by officers of the i4th Hussars, and
this custom, which has existed many years, has been sanctioned
in the Dress Regulations for Officers of the Army, published
in 1900. The Prussian Eagle is worn on the officers' dress
sabretache below the royal cypher and crown, with honorary
distinctions below the eagle, as has been the custom for many
years, and the eagle badge was similarly worn on the hind
corners of the officers' shabracques. The sabretaches are lined
with yellow leather, and the sword-knots are gold cord and
acorn pattern, without any crimson, the same as those worn in
the 1 3th Hussars. The busby-chains are lined with yellow, the
leather lining being backed with velvet. The ostrich feather
now worn in the busby of hussars generally is fifteen inches
high from top of the busby to top of the feather.
The J-inch and ^-inch stripe worn in the centre of the
shoulder-belt, sabretache-lace, and sword slings respectively, in
all hussar regiments, is simply of gold in the I4th Hussars, and
in other regiments either buff, crimson, scarlet, or white.
The pouch worn in the Fourteenth is black leather, silver
flap, and gilt metal ornaments. The shoulder-belt has the
buckle, tip, and slide of silver, and silver engraved breast
ornaments bearing Royal crest and Prussian eagle with chain
and pickers are worn.
Regulations as The whole of the uniform for officers is now clearly laid
officers?™ down in the Dress Regulations for the Army, published
periodically. The latest edition is dated 1900.
Clothing The issue of clothing to the non-commissioned officers and
men is laid down in the Regulations for the Clothing of the
Regular Army, latest edition, 1898. Sealed patterns for each
article are supplied annually (or as required) to regiments from
the Royal Army Clothing Department, Pimlico, where the
standard patterns are deposited when approved by the
Sovereign.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 453
GUIDONS OF THE REGIMENT AT VARIOUS
PERIODS SINCE 1715
ORIGINALLY Light Dragoons had as a rule 3 guidons per Guidons.
regiment of 6 troops, but towards the end of the eighteenth
century regiments mostly consisted of 8 troops, and some had
as many as 10 troops, so that the number of standards or
guidons was, as a rule, increased to an average of 4 per
regiment; and in 1807 there were 5 per regiment when the
establishment was at its highest, viz. 10 troops. The ist
Dragoon Guards with its 1 2 troops had 6 standards.
A guidon measured 2 feet 10 inches long by 2 feet 4 inches
deep. The royal warrant of September 1743 contained
regulations for the standards and guidons of cavalry regiments,
in which it is laid down that the guidons of Light Dragoons
are to be of silk, the tassels and cords to be of crimson silk and
gold mixed.
By royal warrant dated ist July 1751, further instructions 1751-
as to standards and guidons were issued. The Fourteenth were
ordered to have their second and third guidons lemon-coloured,
all 3 guidons to have the embroidery on them of silver, with
the fringe of silver and red. They were ordered to bear
on the second and third guidons the rank of the regiment
thus : xiv. D.
Another royal warrant of December 1768 ordered for the
first time as follows :
' The lance of the guidons (except those of the Light 1768.
Dragoons) to be 9 feet long (spear and ferrule included). The
flag to be 3 feet 5 inches to the end of the slit of the swallow-
tail, and 2 feet 3 inches on the lance. Those of the Light
Dragoons to be of smaller size.'
454 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
1777. In 1777 there is an entry in the War Office Miscellany
Books of a charge of ^13, 135. 6d. made for one standard to
complete deficiencies in the 1 2th Light Dragoons, ' as furnished
to i4th Dragoons one pole, us. 4|d., one case, ios.'
' The standard belts according to the richness, £j, 145. 2d.,
though the 9th Dragoons paid £$, 175. for one.'1
1822. In old times the standards or guidons of cavalry were
carried by cornets, but in 1822, on the 3Oth November, an
order was given for them to be carried by troop sergeant-
majors.
1823. In 1823, on the 23rd January, new regulations for cavalry
standards and guidons of Light Dragoons were issued. The
size of the flag was ordered to be only 3 feet 2 inches to the
end of the slit of the swallow-tail, and i foot 9 inches on the
lance, having a fringe edging of crimson silk intermingled
with silk of the colour of the regimental facings.
1832. In 1832 the Prussian eagle, which had since 1799 been
the regimental badge, was authorised to be continued on the
second and third corners of the guidons of the Fourteenth,
at the same time that the King's crest (the Royal cypher
within the garter) became the new regimental badge, in
honour of the title of 'King's' conferred by His Majesty
1834. King William iv. On the 24th May 1834, the use of guidons
abolished in m Light Dragoon regiments was finally discontinued by His
Light Dragoon Majesty's commands.
regiments. J J
1 Standards and Colours of the British Army, by S. M. Milne, Esqre. (1893).
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
455
LIST OF REGIMENTAL PLATE, PICTURES, ETC.,
BELONGING TO THE OFFICERS' MESS
PLATE
YEAR. DESCRIPTION.
1851. Claret-jug, . .
1856. Large jug,
1 86 1. Equestrian centre-piece,
1861. Silver cup,
1862. Hoof snuff-box. 'Bob 'joined
I4th Light Dragoons 1832,
died in nth Hussars 1862, .
1862. Claret-jug,
1862. Claret-jug,
1863. Silver tray,
1863. Bread-basket, .
1865. Silver assiette, .
1867. Four silver dessert - dishes
(with regimental costumes),
1875. Silver cigarette-box, .
1890. Silver cup,
1890. Silver tankard, .
1891. Silver tray,
1892. Cigar-cutter, .
1895. Silver model of ' Sainfoin,'
1896. Six old Irish silver baskets, .
1896. Twenty-four silver finger-bowls,
Silver cigarette-box, .
Gold snuff-box,
DONOR.
Lieutenant Hickey.
Lieutenant A. M'Gregor.
Colonel C. Steuart, C.B.
Lieutenant Bradley.
uth(P.A.O.) Hussars.
Lieutenant Brudenell Bruce.
Late Lieut. Franklyn's family.
Col. Sir Wm. Russell, Bart., C.B.
Col. P. Scott Thompson, C.B.
Lieut-Col. P. S. Thompson.
Capt. A. Clarke-Travers, Lieut.
T. A. Henry, Lieut. Laing,
Cornet Cobden, Capt. W.
Arbuthnot, Capt. Bolton,
Lieut. Hon. J. St. V. Saumarez.
Detachment 6th Dragoon
Guards (Carabiniers).
Major Hickman.
Lieutenant H. St. Maur.
Lieutenant-Colonel Garth.
1 2th Battery R.A.
Captain Sir J. P. Miller, Bart.
Major Mitchell.
Captain Broadhurst.
Lieutenant Rowley.
Lieutenant Watts.
456
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
YEAR. DESCRIPTION.
Two claret-jugs,
Busby, etc.,
Silver cup,
Rifle cup,
Lloyd Lindsay Cup, .
Silver dessert-stand, .
Eagle cup, . . "7.
Silver tankard,
Silver lamp,
Four statuettes of regiment, .
Four silver dessert-stands (oak
pattern),
Ram's Head, . . .
Silver table bell,
Large cigar-cutter,
Palm vases and centre-piece, .
Sugar vases,
DONOR.
Lieut.-Colonel P. Campbell.
Captain Lynch Staunton.
Baron de Grancy.
Won by regiment.
Won by regiment.
Lieutenant M'Taggart.
Lieutenant Dudley Ward.
Lieutenant A. Brassey.
Lieutenant A. Brassey.
Colonel Wm. Arbuthnot.
Lieut. Mather, Lieut. Hon. F.
Amherst,Capt. Digby Boycott.
Lieut. F. B. Chapman.
Major R. M. Richardson.
Lieutenant-Colonel Russell.
Captain Owen.
Captain Pemberton Campbell,
Lieutenant Bradney.
PICTURES, ETC.
1887. 'Quatre Bras' (Thompson), .
1887. ' Windsor Castle,'
1891. Weighing-chair,
1894. Dresses of Hussars,
1894. Dresses of Light Dragoons, .
Gilt clock,
Silver clock,
Aneroid barometer,
'H.R.H. the Duke of Cam-
bridge,' . :-, ;
' I4th (King's) Hussars,'
' 1 4th (King's) Hussars/
' Day of Reckoning,' .
' The Racecourse,'
'The Journey/
' General Kellermann/
Colonel H. B. Hamilton.
Major A. F. English.
Colonel H. B. Hamilton.
Colonel H. B. Hamilton.
Colonel H. B. Hamilton.
Lieutenant Merry.
W. H. Dunne.
Captain Kirk.
An old ' K.L.D.'
Captain Beaumont.
Captain Beaumont.
Captain R. M. Richardson.
Captain Sir J. P. Miller, Bart.
Captain Sir J. P. Miller, Bart.
Captain H. B. L. Hughes.
'is
J -
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
457
SINCE 1891.
DESCRIPTION.
DONOR.
' The First Steeplechase ' (4),
' Charge of the Cuirassiers,'
Types of regiment, ..<
Portrait of Colonel J. Town-
send, A.D.C., .
'Patrol of 1 4th Light Dragoons
in Peninsular War,' ,r> :.
Medals, ;. . ; .>!' -v,
Medals, . i K.U *%/
Polo CUp, . 'v> ' 7^i;
Captain H. B. L. Hughes.
Colonel Hon. G. H. Gough.
Captain Stuart Robertson.
Captain Stuart Robertson.
Major F. B. Chapman.
Captain Stuart Robertson.
Colonel Hon. G. H. Gough.
Captain C. Stacey.
REGIMENTAL RACE AND CHALLENGE CUPS
WITH LISTS OF WINNERS SINCE 1864
CONDITIONS. — All Challenge Cups to be won three years in succession by the same
officer before becoming his property.
THE OLD REGIMENTAL CUP*
WINNERS
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME.
1864. Captain Baskerville,
1865. Captain Baskerville,
1866.
1867. Lieutenant S. T. Ashton, .
1868. Captain Hay Newton, ,
1869. Captain S. T. Ashton, .
1870. Colonel P. S. Thompson, .
1871. Lieutenant Lefroy,
1872. Major Pemberton Campbell,
1873. Major Pemberton Campbell,
1874. Captain Knox, . > ... ,, «
HORSE'S NAME.
Dragoon.
Dragoon.
Palermo.
Viceroy.
Merlon.
Conrad.
Subeila.
R. M.
R. M.
Cruiskeen.
458
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME. HORSE'S NAME.
1875. Major Pemberton Campbell, . . . Dicky Dear.
1888. Lieutenant Sir J. P. Miller, Bart., . . Tablet.
1889. Captain Kirk (rider, Lieutenant Tritton), . Shelduck.
1890. Capt. Sir J. P. Miller, Bt (rider, Lieut. Murray), Battle Bell.
1891. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough
(rider, Lieutenant Eley), . . Hard Times.
Cup won 1892. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough
outright. (rider, Lieutenant Eley), . . Hard Times.
1893. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough
(rider, Lieutenant Eley), . . Hard Times.
CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY CAPTAIN
S. TUDOR ASHTON
WINNERS
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME. HORSE'S NAME.
1869. Captain Henry, ..... Colleen.
1870. Captain Lefroy, ..... Bayard.
1871. Major Pemberton Campbell, . . . Messenger.
1872. Major Pemberton Campbell, . . . R. M.
1873. Captain Barrett, ..... Barmaid.
1874. Lieutenant Merry, .... Blarney.
I875-
1876.
1877. Lieutenant Palmes, .... The Widow.
1878. Major Russell, ..... Carabinier.
1888. Lieutenant Sir J. P. Miller, Bart, . . Nugget.
1889. Lieutenant Eley (rider, Lieutenant Stacey), . Telegram.
1890. Lieutenant Murray, .... Ironsides.
1891. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough, . . Hard Times.
1892. Capt. R. M. Richardson (rider, Lieut. Brooksbank), Scaleby.
1893. Major English (rider, Captain Murray), . . Richard.
1894. Captain Stacey (rider, Lieutenant Tottenham), . Bosbury.
1895. Major Mitchell (rider, Lieutenant Eley), . . Jack Tar.
1896. Lieutenant Lockett, .... Speculation.
1897. Lieutenant Adam, .... Erin's Queen.
1898. Captain Brooksbank, .... Triumph.
1899. Lieut-Col. G. C. Hamilton (rider, Lieut. Blackett), Record.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
459
CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY CAPTAIN
J. M. LEFROY
(Light Weight}
WINNERS
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME.
1872. Captain Honourable F. Amherst,
1873. Captain Laing, . . .
1874. Captain Knox, .
1877. Lieutenant Tuthill,
1888. Lieutenant Sir J. P. Miller, Bart,
1889. Lieutenant Tickell,
1890. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough,
1891. Lieutenant Brooksbank, .
1892. Lieutenant Stephen,
1893. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough,
1894. Colonel Honourable G. H. Gough,
1895. Captain Brooksbank,
1896. Lieutenant Adam,
1897. Lieutenant Adam,
1898. Lieutenant Tottenham,
1899. Captain D. M. Miller, '•'.'••
HORSE'S NAME.
Exchange.
Remus.
Cruiskeen.
Lorna Doone.
Tablet.
Caradoc.
Trojan.
The Master.
Gipsy.
Hard Times.
No More.
Triumph.
The Emperor.
May Queen.
Whitehall.
Brunette.
CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY COLONEL HONOUR-
ABLE G. H. GOUGH, C.B., TO REPLACE THE 'OLD
REGIMENTAL CUP' WON BY HIM 1893
WINNERS OF THE 'GOUGH CUP'
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME. HORSE'S NAME.
1894. Captain Murray, ..... Queensland.
1895. Captain Murray (rider, Lieutenant Eley), . Queensland.
1896. Col. Hon. G. H. Gough (rider, Lieut. Lockett), . Paraphine.
1897. Captain Eley, ..... Sugar Loaf 1 1.
1898. Captain D. M. Miller, .... The Buster.
1899. Captain D. M. Miller, .... The Buster.
460 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
SUBALTERNS' CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY LIEU-
TENANT-COLONEL HONOURABLE G. H. GOUGH
WINNERS
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME. HORSE'S NAME.
1888. Lieutenant Sir J. P. Miller, Bart., . . Darby.
1889. Lieutenant Eley, ..... Ratcatcher.
1890. Lieutenant Tickell, .... Caradoc.
1891. Lieutenant Stephen, .... Gipsy.
1892. Lieutenant Eley, ..... Joan.
1893. Lieutenant Eley, . . . . Joan.
1894. Lieutenant Stephen (rider, Lieutenant Prevost), Mistake.
P ("1895- Lieutenant Tottenham, . . Handy Andy.
. , -{1896. Lieutenant Tottenham, . . Whitehall.
°U ng ' (.1897. Lieutenant Tottenham, . . Whitehall.
SUBALTERNS' CHALLENGE CUP PRESENTED BY
COLONEL HONOURABLE G. H. GOUGH, C.B.,
ON HIS LEAVING THE REGIMENT, 1897
WINNERS
YEAR. OWNER'S NAME. HORSE'S NAME.
1898. Lieut. H. J. Tilney (rider, Lieut. Tottenham), . Regulus.
1899. Lieutenant Tottenham, .... Lent Lily.
At the present time (1899) the Cups are competed for as follows : —
Ashton's Cup. — Heavy weight. — Point-to-point race.
Lefroy's Cup. — Light weight. — Point-to-point race.
Gough Cup. — Two and a half miles over a steeplechase course.
Subalterns' Cup. — Three miles over a steeplechase course.
There is also (annually) a Hunter's Race of £1 sweepstake,
21 sovereigns added.
In 1899 a new race, called 'The I4th Hussars Hunter's Plate,'
was won by Captain Brooksbank's bay gelding ' Strathmore,' ridden
by owner.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 461
SOME RACES WON BY OFFICERS OF THE I4TH
(KING'S) HUSSARS
1873
At Rugby, on the 4th March, the Grand Military Gold Cup, value
IOO guineas, added to sweepstakes of £10 each and £100 added
(24 subscribers), was won by Mr. John S. Heron Maxwell's (i4th
Hussars) ' Revirescat,' ridden by Mr. W. Hope Johnstone.
Betting — 9 to 4 against ' Revirescat' Won by 10 lengths. 16
runners.
At Rugby, on $th March, the Military Weight-for-Age Stakes,
won by Mr. J. S. Heron Maxwell's 'Revirescat,' ridden by Mr. W.
Hope Johnstone.
Betting — 3 to 4 on ' Revirescat.' Won by a distance. ' Revirescat '
carried a stone penalty.
1890
The Derby, won by Captain and Adjutant Sir James P. Miller's,
Bart, chestnut colt ' Sainfoin.'
1895
The Irish Point-to-Point Race (heavy weight), won by Colonel
Honourable G. H. Gough's ' No More.'
1899
The Irish Army Point-to-Point Race (light weight), won by
Lieutenant T. E. L. Whitson's brown gelding ' The Count'
The Irish Military Steeplechase Plate, value ,£98. Ward Union
Hunt Races, Fairy House, won by Captain D. M. Miller's bay gelding
' The Buster,' ridden by owner.
462
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
Lieutenant-General James Dormer, .
Lieutenant-General Clement Neville,
Lieutenant-General Archibald Hamilton,
Field-Marshal the Right Honourable James
O'Hara, Lord Tyrawley, P.C.,
Lieutenant-General Louis Dejean,
Field-Marshal John Campbell (afterwards
Marquis of Lome and fifth Duke of
Argyll), . ...
General Charles Fitzroy (afterwards Lord
Southampton, ....
Lieutenant-General Daniel Webb,
General George Warde,
General Sir Robert Sloper, K.B.,
General John W. Egerton (afterwards Earl
of Bridgewater), ....
General Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, G.C.B.,
General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., G.C.H.,
K.C.B., . . . .
General the Honourable Sir Henry Murray,
K.C.B., . ...
Lieutenant-General William Beckwith, K.H.,
General Henry Richmond Jones, C.B.,
General John Wilkie, ....
General Charles W. Thompson,
Lieutenant-General Honourable Charles W.
Thesiger, .....
July 22, 1715
April 9, 1720
June 27, 1737
July 24, 1749
Nov. 27, 1752
April 5, 1757
Sept 11, 1765
Oct. 20, 1772
Nov. n, 1773
April 2, 1778
June i, 1797
Oct. 20, 1823
June 1 8, 1830
March 18, 1853
Nov. 12, 1860
Feb. 24, 1871
May 15, 1873
May i, 1882
Oct 4, 1896
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
463
SUCCESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS
NAME.
Date when
Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Regiment.
Date when
Commanding the
Regiment.
Brevet Rank, etc.
Henry Killigrew, . •.-.
July 22, 1715
Solomon Rapin, .
I7I6-I7
William Boyle, .
1717
Beverly Newcomin,
Dec. i, 1720
Henry Desgrangues, .
Nov. 12, 1731
William Wright, ,
July 7, 1737
James Norris,
July 14, 1749
Thomas Erie,
Sept. 4, 1754
Sept. 4, 1754
Col, 1762 ; Major-Gen.,
1770.
Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart.,
July 15, 1773
July 15, 1773
Col., Aug. 29, 1 777; Major-
Gen., 1782.
Grice Blakeney, .
Nov. 19, 1781
Nov. 19, 1781
Col., 1790; Major-Gen.,
1794; Lt.-Gen., 1802;
Gen., 1809.
John Michel,
Dec. 5, 1799
April 29, 1802
Col., April 29, 1802 ; Major-
Gen., 1809; Lt.-Gen.,
1814; Gen., 1837.
Samuel Hawker, A. D.C.
June 12, 1800
1803'
Col., 1808 ; Major-Gen.,
1811 ; Lt.-Gen., 1831 ;
Gen., 1848 ; K.C.H.,
1831 ; G.C.H., 1836.
Neil Talbot,
Aug. 22, 1805
Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart.,
Aug. 2, 1810
June 4, 1811
Col., June 4, 1814.
C.B., K.H., A.D.C.,
Charles M. Baker,
Sept. 30, 1819
Sept. 30, 1819
Jn. Townsend, A.D.C.,
April 1 6, 1829
April 1 6, 1829
Col, Nov. 23, 1841.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.,.
April 30, 1841
April 23, 1845
Edward Harvey, .
April 23, 1845
Col. (H.-R), 1854; Major-
Gen., 1858.
J. W. King, C.B.,
April 25, 1848
Nov. 23, 1848
Henry E.Doherty,C.B.,
Nov. 28, 1848
July 7, 1850
Col., Nov. 28, 1854 ; Major-
Gen., 1863 ; Lt.-Gen.,
1871 ; Gen., 1877.
Charles Steuart, C.B., .
July 7, 1850
Aug. 26, 1857
Col., Nov. 28, 1854; Major-
Gen., Oct. 3, 1864 ; Lt.-
Gen., May 6, 1873.
Charles P. Ainslie,
Aug. 26, 1857
Col., Nov. 28, 1854; Major-
Gen., 1862 ; Lt.-Gen.,
1871 ; Gen., 1877.
Arth. Scudamore, C.B.,
June 19, 1861
June 19, 1861
Col., Nov. 9, 1862 ; Major-
Gen., 1868.
Sir Wm. Russell, Bart.,
Oct. 8, 1 86 1
Oct. 8, 1 86 1
Col., July 20, 1863; Major-
CB,
Gen., 1868.
464
SUCCESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS — continued.
Date when
Date when
NAME.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Commanding the
Brevet Rank, etc.
in the Regiment.
Regiment.
P. S. Thompson, C.B.,
Nov. 29, 1864
Nov. 29, 1864
Col., Jan. 6, 1867 ; Major-
Gen., 1877.
Francis P. Campbell, .
April 29, 1875
April 29, 1875
Wil. Arbuthnot, C.B., .
June 15, 1876
June 15, 1876
Col., 1881 ; Major-Gen.,
1890.
John H. Knox,
June 15, 1881
June 15, 1881
Col., June 15, 1885.
F. S. Russell, C.M.G.,
July r, 1881
Col., 1885 ; Major-Gen.,
1897-
Charles F. Morton,
June 10, 1882
Oct. 25, 1885
Col, July i, 1885.
James Dennis,
Oct. 25, 1885
Col., Oct. 25, 1889.
Henry B. Hamilton, .
Nov. 17, 1886
July i, 1887
Col., March 17, 1890.
Hon. G. H. Gough,C.B.,
July i, 1891
July i, 1891
Col., Dec. 16, 1889.
Augustus F. English, .
July i, 1896
July i, 1896
Gilbert H. C. Hamilton,
Feb. 22, 1899
Feb. 22, 1899
Col., Nov. 29, 1900.
Note. — In 1799 there were two lieutenant-colonels, Blakeney and Michel.
In 1800 to 1802 there were three lieutenant-colonels, Blakeney, Michel, and
Hawker.
In 1802, on reduction of establishment, Lieutenant-Colonel Hawker was
placed on half-pay, but was brought back to the regiment to command
it in 1803, vice Michel.
In 1805 to 1816 there were two/i8o5 to 1810, Hawker and Talbot.
lieutenant-colonels, . \i8io to 1816, Hawker and Hervey.
11841 to 1845, Townsend and Havelock.
1845 to J&fS, Havelock and Harvey (King
from April 1848 -vice Harvey).
1848 to 1851, King and Doherty.
1851 to 1857, Doherty and Steuart.
1857 to 1860, Steuart and Ainslie.
C 1 88 1 to 1882, Knox and Russell.
In 1 88 1 to 1887 there were two) 1882 to i
lieutenant-colonels,
, Knox and Morton,
to 1886, Morton and Dennis.
1886 to 1887, Morton and Hamilton (H. B).
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
465
SUCCESSION OF ADJUTANTS
NAME.
Date of
Appointment.
Rank on
Appointment.
Remarks.
William Hamilton, .
July 22,1715
Cornet
He was succeededby Thorn-
borough.
G. Thornborough,
1717
Reduced to 2s. a day, half-
pay, June 24, 1717.
Nicholas Cowse,
May 18, 1743
Cornet, 1745 5 Adjt. second
time, 1752.
Philip Mercier, .
Mar. 15,1755
Qt.-master
Appointed Lieut., 2nd Bat.
of a troop
23rd Foot, Dec. 7, 1756.
Jeremiah Hurley,
Dec. 7, 1756
Arthur Ormsby, .
Nov. 27, 1766
Cornet
Previously Troop Quarter-
master.
Thomas Paterson,
Nov. 27, 1771
Lieutenant
Previously Troop Quarter-
master.
James Wilson, .
June 7,1776
Born 1741, entered army
1759-
John Magee,
Sept. 12, 1780
James Latham, .
April 30, 1789
Lieutenant
Lawrence Drought, .
Jan. 6, 1796
Cornet, June 30, 1796.
George Humphrey, .
Aug. 28, 1800
Lieutenant
John Babington,
June 25, 1802
Cornet
Benjamin Shotten, .
Sept. i, 1804
Cornet
Lieutenant, Mar. 20, 1806.
Charles M'Carthey, .
May 5,1814
Lieutenant
Patrick Leary, .
Dec. 21, 1826
Cornet
Lieutenant, June 29, 1830.
William Clarke,
April 23, 1838
Cornet
Lieutenant, Jan. 4, 1841.
Richard P. Apthorp, .
Nov. 25, 1842
Cornet
Lieutenant, Nov. 5, 1846.
Henry E. Reader,
Nov. 4, 1850
Lieutenant
Harry T. Clements, .
Dec. i, 1854
Lieutenant
James Giles,
Sept. 9,1859
Lieutenant
Edward E. Digby Boycott,
June 10, 1862
Lieutenant
F. J. S. Hay Newton, .
Mar. 15,1864
Lieutenant
Joseph Harpur, .
May 1 6, 1865
Cornet
Lieutenant, July 20, 1866.
James R. Bray, .
Aug. 3,1872
Lieutenant
James Kentish, .
Mar. 15, 1873
Lieutenant
Honourable H. G. Gough,
Oct. 23,1875
Lieutenant
C. D. V. Tuthill,
Aug. 27, 1879
Lieutenant
G. H. C. Hamilton, .
June 30, 1885
Lieutenant
Captain, July 24, 1885.
H. W. Mitchell, .
Sept. 1,1887
Captain
Sir James Percy Miller, Bt,
Sept. i, 1 888
Lieutenant
Captain, Sept. 8, 1888.
E. J. Tickell, .
Sept. i, 1892
Captain
Maj., Feb. 22, 1899, D.S.O.
R. C. Stephen, .
Sept. 1,1896
Captain
F. R. Lawrence, D.S.O., .
Nov. 1 8, 1899
Lieutenant
Captain, July 1 1, 1900.
2 G
MEMOIRS AND SERVICES OF THE COLONELS
AND LIEUTENANT-COLONELS OF THE i4TH
(KING'S) HUSSARS, A.D. 1715 TO A.D. 1900
COLONELS
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JAMES DORMER1
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, ALSO CALLED
'DORMER'S DRAGOONS,' JULY 22, 1715.
JAMES DORMER, sixth son of Robert Dormer, of Rousham and James Dormer.
Dorton, Bucks, who died 1693, and of Anne Cottrell, his second wife,
daughter of Sir Charles Cottrell, Master of the Ceremonies to
Charles I., Charles II., and James I., and Ambassador at Brussels in
1663, was born on the i6th March 1679. He obtained his first com-
mission as Lieutenant and Captain in the ist Regiment of Foot
Guards, I3th June 1700, and was wounded in that rank at the battle
of Blenheim, 2nd August I7O4,2 where a brother officer of the same
name, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Dormer, was killed.
James Dormer early evinced strict attention to duty, zeal for the
service, and personal bravery, which were recognised by the celebrated
John, Duke of Marlborough, and in 1707 he was rewarded with the
rank of Colonel in the army, being shortly after appointed Colonel of
a newly raised Irish Regiment of Foot, with which he embarked for
Spain in 1709, for service in the war of the Spanish succession. He
distinguished himself at the battle of Saragossa in 1710, also in the
advance to Madrid the same year, but he was surrounded when serving
under General Stanhope in the mountains of Castile during the winter,
and made a prisoner with his regiment at Brihuega. He appears to have
been awarded £200 for his losses by pillage at Brihuega and at Bilbao
on his way home on parole. He was exchanged, and on arriving in
England was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1712, after
1 Lieutenant-General James Dormer was the founder and first colonel of the
I4th Dragoons.
2 New style, i3th August 1704.
467
468 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
James Dormer, the death of Lord Mohan in the notorious duel with the Duke of
Hamilton, Dormer was appointed Colonel of Mohan's Regiment of
Foot, which was disbanded the following year at the Peace of Utrecht
(nth April 1713). In 1715, when an augmentation of the army
took place, he was commissioned to raise a regiment of dragoons
in the south of England, the present 'Fourteenth (King's) Hussars.'
Dormer commanded a brigade during the Jacobite rising in Lanca-
shire in 1715-16, and was engaged with the rebels at Preston,
being wounded at the storming of the avenue leading to Lancaster.
In 1720 he was transferred to the Colonelcy of the 6th Regiment of
Foot, promoted to be Major-General in 1727, and to be Lieutenant-
General in 1735. About 1727-28 he was Envoy-Extraordinary at
Lisbon, where he had a dispute with Mr. Thomas Barnett, the British
Consul.
In 1738 Dormer was rewarded with the Colonelcy of the ist troop
of Horse Grenadier Guards, which he retained till his death. In 1740
he was Governor of Hull. He died in 1741 at Crendon, Bucks.
Lieutenant-General Dormer was a member of the Kit-Cat Club, and
collected a fine library : he was an acquaintance of Swift. He must
not be confused with Colonel Charles Dormer, who commanded Lord
Essex's Dragoons, now ' The Queen's Own ' 4th Hussars, and who
fell at the head of that regiment at the battle of Almanza in 1707.
Lieutenant-General James Dormer died unmarried and bequeathed
his Chersley estate to his cousin, Sir Clement Cottrell, Knight (after-
wards Cottrell-Dormer), Master of the Ceremonies to George II. The
portrait is from an oil painting in possession of his descendant, Captain
Charles Cottrell-Dormer of Rousham Hall, Oxford, late of the I3th
Hussars.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CLEMENT NEVILLE
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, APRIL 9, 1720.
Clement Clement Neville entered the army at the Revolution in 1688, and
Neville. served under King William III. in the Netherlands. He also served in
the wars of Queen Anne ; was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy
of Munden's Regiment of Foot, with which he served in Spain, and
signalised himself at the battle of Saragossa in 1710, but was made
prisoner at Brihuega. He was shortly afterwards exchanged, and at
the close of the campaign, on I5th November 1711, he was rewarded
with the rank of Colonel in the army. At the Peace of Utrecht, which
was on nth April 1713, his regiment was disbanded, and in the
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 469
summer of 1715 he was appointed the first Lieutenant-Colonel of the Clement
1 3th Dragoons. In 1720 he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the
I4th Dragoons, from which, on 27th June 1737, he was removed to
the 8th Dragoons, and in 1739 he was promoted to the rank of Major-
General. In 1740 he was appointed Colonel of the 6th Horse, now
the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, and in 1743
he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He died in
1744. His photogravure is from an old mezzo-tint engraving by John
Brooks from a painting by Hoar, representing him in Lieutenant-
General's uniform, time of George II.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ARCHIBALD HAMILTON
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, JUNE 27, 1737.
Archibald Hamilton entered the army in November 1688, and at Archibald
the Revolution he adhered to the Prince of Orange, afterwards King Hamilton-
William III., under whose command he served in Flanders. In the
reign of Queen Anne he served in Portugal and Spain, and his
regiment (Mountjoy's Foot) was nearly annihilated at the battle of
Almanza in 1707, where he was taken prisoner. This corps was
subsequently incorporated into other regiments, and the officers sent
home to recruit, and at the Peace of Utrecht, nth April 1713, it was
disbanded. In the summer of 1715 he was appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel of the nth Dragoons, and in May 1732 he was promoted to
the Colonelcy of the 27th Foot, from which he was removed in 1737
to the Colonelcy of the I4th Dragoons. He became Major-General
ist January 1742, and Lieutenant-General about 1748. He died the
following year. In St. Peter's Church, Dublin, there is a marble
monument erected to Lieutenant-General Archibald Hamilton, bearing
the family arms and crest borne by the Killyleagh and Abbotstown
branches of the Irish house of Hamilton, the present representatives
of which are Colonel Gawne W. Rowan Hamilton of Killyleagh and
Lord HolmPatrick of Abbotstown.1 The inscription records that
Lieutenant-General Hamilton was at the siege of Derry in 1688,
1 Colonel H. B. Hamilton (page 505) and Colonel G. H. C. Hamilton (page 509)
both belong to the Abbotstown branch of the Irish house of Hamilton, and use
the same arms and crest as are on this monument, but there is nothing to
prove the lineage and descent of Lieutenant-General Archibald Hamilton in any
pedigree of these families so far as can be ascertained ; he may therefore have
belonged to one of the other branches of the Irish Hamiltons, which are likewise
descended from the Rev. Hans Hamilton, Vicar of Dunlop, the ancestor of the
Earls of Clanbrassill (extinct).
470
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Archibald
Hamilton.
where he distinguished himself, and that he served abroad with
reputation during all the wars of William III. and Anne, and died on
the 1 5th July 1749.
The Rt. Hon.
James, Lord
Tyrawley.
FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAMES, LORD TYRAWLEY
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, JULY 24, 1749.
The Honourable James O'Hara, Lord Kilmaine, and second Lord
Tyrawley, was born in the year 1690. He was the only son of Sir
Charles O'Hara, first Lord Tyrawley, of County Mayo, Ireland, and
was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (com-
manded by his father) on the i$th March 1703. In 1706 he pro-
ceeded with his regiment to the relief of Barcelona. In the following
year he served on the staff of the army in Spain, and was wounded at
the battle of Almanza (SE. of Spain) on 25th April 1707, where, it is
said, he was instrumental in saving the life of the British Commander,
the Earl of Galway. Afterwards he served under the Duke of Marl-
borough, and was severely wounded in the wood of Tasniare, near
Tournai, during the battle of Malplaquet, nth September 1709. He
served for several years at Minorca, and on 29th January 1713
obtained the Colonelcy of his regiment, the Royal Fusiliers (9th
Regiment of Foot), in succession to his father. In 1722 Colonel
O'Hara was awarded an Irish Peerage (Baron Kilmaine), and upon
the decease of his father in 1724 he succeeded to the dignity of Baron
Tyrawley. In 1727 he was appointed A.D.C. to His Majesty King
George II. On 23rd November 1735 his lordship became Brigadier-
General, and he was promoted Major-General on 2nd July 1739. In
August 1739 he was removed from the Royal Fusiliers to the Colonelcy
of the 5th Horse (now the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards). In
March 1743 Lord Tyrawley became Lieutenant-General, and in April
of the same year he obtained the Colonelcy of the 2nd troop of Horse
Grenadier Guards, from which, in 1745, he was removed to the 3rd
troop of Life Guards, which gave him the privilege of taking the Court
duty of Gold Stick.
In 1746, when King George II. had resolved to disband the 3rd and
4th troops of Life Guards, Lord Tyrawley was removed to the loth
Foot, and in 1749 he obtained the Colonelcy of the I4th Dragoons.
On 27th November 1752 he was removed to the 3rd Dragoons, and
in 1755 to the 2nd or Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards. He
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 471
became Governor of Portsmouth, ist May 1759, was promoted The Rt. Hon.
General on 7th March 1761, and advanced to the rank of Field- Tyiawley?*
Marshal, loth June 1763.
On the 28th January 1728 he was appointed Envoy-Extraordinary
to the Court of Portugal, where he remained as Ambassador till I741-
He was very popular, and on his departure received from the King of
Portugal fourteen bars of gold. He returned to England with three
wives and fourteen children (Walpole's letters), and at once gained a
reputation for wit at the expense of Lords Bath and Grantham and
the House of Commons. From November 1743 to February 1745 he
was Ambassador-Extraordinary at the Court of Russia, and on his
return he received the command of the 3rd troop of Life Guards
as already noted above.
In 1752 he returned as Ambassador to Portugal, and was also
Governor of Minorca till 1756, when he was sent out on the Gibraltar
expedition. On I4th December 1757 he was president of the court-
martial on Sir John Mordaunt, having been relieved at Gibraltar on
i6th April 1757. He was also president of the court-martial on Lord
George Sackville in 1760. In 1762, when a Spanish invasion of
Portugal was threatened, Tyrawley was appointed Plenipotentiary and
General of the English forces, but was soon superseded as being too
old, and he returned to England in 1763. He was sworn of King
George HI.'s Privy Council, I7th November 1762. Lord Tyrawley
had a seat at Blackheath, and married Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-
General Sir W. Stewart, second Viscount Mountjoy, but left no legiti-
mate issue. He died at Twickenham, I3th July 1773, and was buried
at Chelsea Hospital.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LOUIS DEJEAN
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, NOVEMBER 27, 1752.
Louis Dejean served many years in the ist troop of Horse Louis Dejean.
Grenadier Guards, in which corps he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel, and in 1746 he was promoted to the Colonelcy of 37th
Regiment of Foot, which was subsequently disbanded. On i6th
October 1752 he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the I4th Dragoons,
was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1756, and removed on
5th April 1757 to the 3rd Irish Horse, now 6th Dragoon Guards
(Carabiniers). In 1759 he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-
General.
472 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Louis Dejean. He died at Dublin in 1764. His portrait is taken from an old
mezzo-tint engraving kindly lent by S. M. Milne, Esq. The original
painting was by Ph. Mercier, engraving by P. Faber.
FIELD-MARSHAL JOHN, DUKE OF ARGYLL
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, APRIL 5, 1757.
John Campbell John Campbell entered the army in the reign of King George II.,
served at the battle of Dettingen in Bavaria, fought on 26th June 1743,
and in 1745 he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 54th
Regiment, afterwards 43rd or Monmouthshire Light Infantry, with
which corps he served a short period in the Netherlands. The
rebellion breaking out in Scotland, he quitted Flanders, and in
January 1746 he joined Lieutenant-General Hawley, with a thousand
Argyllshire Highlanders, on the day of the unfortunate battle of
Falkirk, I7th January 1746. He subsequently joined the Duke of
Cumberland at Perth, and accompanied His Royal Highness to the
North, and was present at Culloden, i6th April 1746. He was
promoted to the rank of Colonel, and appointed Aide-de-Camp to His
Majesty King George II. in November 1755. In the following month
he was nominated Colonel of the 54th Regiment, then first embodied,
from which in 1757 ^e was removed to the I4th Dragoons, and
in 1759 he was promoted to the rank of Major-General and appointed
Colonel of the Argyllshire Fencibles. In January 1761 he became
Lieutenant-General. On the decease of his uncle Archibald, third
Duke of Argyll, in 1761, his father, General John Campbell of the Scots
Greys, succeeded to that title, and Lieutenant-General Campbell of
the I4th Dragoons became Marquis of Lome. In the following year
he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, and in 1765 he
was removed to the Royal Regiment of Foot. He was again
appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland in 1767, and in 1770 he
became fifth Duke of Argyll. In 1778 he became General, was
removed to the 3rd Foot Guards in 1782, and advanced to the rank
of Field-Marshal in 1796. He became a great improver of land, was
distinguished for his many social virtues, public and private, being
highly honoured and respected in society, and he died lamented on
24th May 1806, aged eighty-two years. The photogravure of him, in
General's uniform, is from a picture by Gainsborough, belonging to the
late Duke of Argyll, recently in Argyll Lodge, Kensington, photo-
graphed by His Grace's kind permission in 1899.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 473
GENERAL CHARLES FITZROY, LORD SOUTHAMPTON
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, SEPTEMBER II, 1765.
Charles Fitzroy, son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, grandson of Charles, Charles
second Duke of Grafton, and brother of Augustus Henry, Duke °f^z
Grafton, was born 25th June 1737. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter ampton)
of Colonel William Cosby. He was appointed Ensign ist Foot Guards,
1752; Lieutenant, 1756; promoted Captain, with rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel, 1758; and appointed Colonel of the iiQth Prince's Own
Regiment of Foot in 1762. This regiment was disbanded in 1763. In
1765 he became Colonel of the I4th Dragoons, succeeding the Marquis
of Lome. He was present at the battle of Minden, ist August 1759,
as aide-de-camp to Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, and carried the
famous order for the advance of the cavalry, which Lord George
Sackville (afterwards Sackville-Germain) neglected. He gave evi-
dence at the court-martial which tried Sackville. In 1760 he was
appointed groom of the bedchamber to the king, and resigned in 1762.
He was engaged at the battle of Kirchderkern, I5th July 1761. On
2Oth October 1772 he was removed from the I4th Dragoons to the
Colonelcy of the 3rd King's Own Dragoons. On I7th October 1780
he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Southampton, and on 27th
December of the same year he became groom of the stole to the
Prince of Wales. He moved the address to the throne in the House of
Lords at the opening of Parliament in 1781, and made a speech on
i8th February 1782 on Lord Carmarthen's motion protesting 'against
the elevation to the Peerage of any person labouring under a heavy
censure of a court-martial ' — a motion aimed at Lord George Sackville-
Germain, who had just been created Viscount Sackville of Drayton,
denying that, as had been alleged or insinuated, the court-martial in
question had been animated by a factious spirit. He also spoke,
without definitely committing himself to either side, on the Regency
Bill, i6th February 1789.
He became Colonel in 1762, Major-General in 1772, Lieutenant-
General in 1777, and General on 25th October 1793. He married, on
27th July 1758, Anne, daughter of Sir Peter Warren, K.B., vice-admiral
of the red, by whom he had issue nine sons and seven daughters. His
eldest son, George Ferdinand, succeeded him. Lord Southampton
was lord of the manor of Tottenham Court, Middlesex, and had his
principal seat at Fitzroy Farm, near Highgate, the grounds of which he
had laid out in the artificial style then in vogue. He died in 1797.
474 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Charles His photogravure is from an old mezzo-tint engraving of a picture
(LorTsouth- ky Sir J. Reynolds, circa 1790, kindly lent by S. M. Milne, Esq.
ampton).
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL DANIEL WEBB
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, OCTOBER 2O, 1772.
Daniel Webb. Daniel Webb was born in 1703. He was an officer in the Eighth,
now the Seventh, ' Princess Royal's' Dragoon Guards, for many years,
at a period when the corps acquired a high reputation for discipline,
efficiency, and valour, and was designated ' Ligonier's Horse.' He rose
to the rank of Major in the regiment ; commanded a squadron at the
battle of Dettingen in 1743, where the regiment was highly dis-
tinguished under the eye of His Majesty King George II. He also
commanded a squadron at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. A few
days after this battle he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy in
succession to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Ligonier, who became
Colonel of the 48th Foot. Lieutenant-Colonel Webb performed the
duties of commanding officer of the Eighth Horse until November
1755, when he was rewarded with the Colonelcy of the 48th Foot; and,
in 1759, he was promoted to the rank of Major- General. He served in
Germany under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, and commanded a
brigade of cavalry at the battle of Warbourg in 1760. In 1761 he was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General. In 1766 he was removed
to the 8th Foot, and in 1772 to the I4th Dragoons, the command of
which corps he retained until his decease in the following year (1773).
GENERAL GEORGE WARDE
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS, NOVEMBER II, 1773.
George Warde. George Warde was born in 1727, and for many years held a com-
mission in the nth Dragoons, becoming Major of that regiment in
1756. In 1758 he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
4th Dragoons, and he brought that corps into so excellent a state of
discipline and efficiency, that he received the expression of the high
approbation of His Majesty King George III. on several occasions,
when His Majesty reviewed the regiment. He was promoted to the
rank of Colonel in 1772. In the following year the king rewarded him
with the Colonelcy of the I4th Dragoons ; and four years later, in 1777,
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THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 475
he was advanced to the rank of Major-General. In 1778 he was re- George Warde.
moved to the 1st Irish Horse, now the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon
Guards, and he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in
1782. In 1792 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, and
while in that country he devoted much of his time in bringing his
regiment into a perfect condition for active service. He possessed
sound ideas of what cavalry ought to be ; he had an aversion to slow
movements, and although nearly seventy years of age, he exercised his
regiment five times a week, often leading it across the country, over
hedge and ditch, to the astonishment of every one. In 1796 he was
promoted to the rank of General. He was celebrated for philanthropy,
and is represented by historians as ' a man of inviolable disinterested
integrity, public and private ; and the bestower of benefactions scarcely
less secret than extensive.' He died in March 1803.
GENERAL SIR ROBERT SLOPER, K.B.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, APRIL 2, 1778.
Robert Sloper was appointed by King George II. to a commission Sir Robert
in the loth Dragoons, and in December 1755, at the augmentation of p€r'
the army, His Majesty promoted him to the Majority of that regiment.
In February 1759 he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
1st Dragoon Guards, and he held the command of that regiment
during the remainder of the seven years' war in Germany, where he
was repeatedly commended by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick and
other general officers under whose command he served. While under
his orders, the ist Dragoon Guards were preserved in a high state of
discipline and efficiency. He was promoted to the rank of Major-
General in 1771, and in 1778, King George III. rewarded him with the
Colonelcy of the I4th Light Dragoons. He was promoted to the rank
of Lieutenant-General on 3Oth November 1782, and to that of General
on 3rd May 1796. In the following year he was removed to the 4th
Dragoons. He was further rewarded, on 6th June 1788, with the
dignity of a Knight Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, and was appointed Governor of Duncannon Fort. From 1784
to 1786 Lieutenant-General Sloper was Commander-in-Chief in India,
and he died in the year 1802.
476
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
John William
Egerton
(Earl of
Bridgewater).
GENERAL JOHN WILLIAM, EARL OF BRIDGEWATER
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS, JUNE I, 1797.
John William Egerton (eldest son of the Reverend John Egerton,
afterwards Lord Bishop of Durham) was appointed Cornet in the 7th
Dragoons in January 1771 ; he became Captain in 1776, and was
removed as Major, in 1779, into the 22nd Light Dragoons, from which
he was removed to the 2Oth Light Dragoons in 1781. In 1782 he was
promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 2ist Light Dragoons,
which corps was disbanded the following year in consequence of the
termination of the American War. In 1790 he was appointed to the
Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 7th Light Dragoons, was promoted to the
rank of Colonel in 1793, and to that of Major-General in 1795. He
served some time on the staff in Ireland, and was removed to the
eastern district of England in 1796. He appears to have been the
general officer under whose directions the I4th Light Dragoons were
dismounted at Clonmel in 1795, and embarked shortly afterwards at
Waterford for Bristol, under orders for service in the West Indies.
Then again we find him as Major-General on the staff at Chelmsford,
when the Fourteenth, in very diminished numbers, arrived there from
St. Domingo in 1797, in which year His Majesty conferred on him the
Colonelcy of the regiment, and he was responsible for the remounting
of the regiment and the refilling of its ranks on that occasion. On
29th April 1802 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General.
On the decease of his cousin, Francis, third Duke of Bridgewater, in
1803, he succeeded to the title of Earl of Bridgewater, and in 1812 he
was promoted to the rank of General. He retained the Colonelcy of
the I4th Light Dragoons twenty-six years, and was particularly proud
of the high reputation the regiment had acquired during the Peninsular
War. He died in 1823.
The photogravure of him is from a portrait by H. Edridge, in the
uniform of the I4th Light Dragoons, taken in 1805, with the Prussian
Eagle conspicuous on the helmet. This drawing was kindly placed
at the service of the author by the Right Honourable A. W. B., third
Earl Brownlow, a descendant of Lord Bridgewater.
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$.m. GENERAL SIR JOHN ORMSBY VANDELEUR, G.C.B.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
OCTOBER 28, 1823.
John Ormsby Vandeleurwas appointed Ensign in the 5th Regiment Sir John
of Foot, 2Qth December 1781 ; Lieutenant in 67th Regiment, 2ist July
1783; Lieutenant in gth Regiment, 1788; Captain, 7th March 1792;
removed to the 8th Light Dragoons, October 1792 ; Major, 1st March
1794; Lieutenant-Colonel, ist January 1798; Colonel, 25th April 1808;
Major-General, 4th June 1811 ; Lieutenant-General, I9th July 1821;
General, 28th June 1838. From April 1794 to December 1795 he was
employed in Holland, and present in the actions which took place
under the Duke of York on 2nd and i8th May and on 1st June 1794-
95, besides several minor affairs. From August 1796 to October 1802
he was employed at the Cape, and from October 1802 to July 1806 he
served in the East Indies. He served the campaigns there of 1803,
1804, and 1805, commanding the 8th Light Dragoons, and part of the
time commanded a brigade of cavalry under General Lord Lake. He
was present at the battles of Leswarree, Futtyghur, and Afzulghur, and
at the sieges of Agra and Bhurtpore. At Leswarree, ist November
1803, his brigade turned the enemy's left flank, charged and took
2000 prisoners, besides cutting many to pieces. In November 1804, at
Futtyghur, the Mahratta chief Holkar was surprised and defeated, and
on both these occasions Brigadier-General Vandeleur received the
thanks of Lord Lake for his services. At Afzulghur, on 2nd March
1805, the Mahratta chief Ameer Khan was defeated, and Brigadier-
General Vandeleur commanded the second line of the cavalry of the
Bengal army under Major-General Smyth, consisting of the 8th Light
Dragoons and 3rd and 5th Bengal Cavalry, which made a successful
charge and defeated the enemy with great loss, Captain Dean's
squadron of 8th Light Dragoons retaking the artillery which had been
lost when the first line (24th and 25th Light Dragoons and a Bengal
regiment of cavalry) was repulsed. In 1807 he commanded the igth
Light Dragoons. In 181 1 General Vandeleur was given the command of
a brigade as Major-General in the Peninsular War. He served with the
Light Division, and was wounded at Ciudad Rodrigo, I9th January
1812, when leading the division to the breach at the time Major-
General Crauford fell mortally wounded. He was with the Light
Division at the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria in command of his
brigade, which captured 300 prisoners a few days before the latter
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Sir John battle, having intercepted and cut off a French brigade, and forced the
Vandeleur. remainder to disperse in the mountains.
In July 1813 he was given the command of a brigade of cavalry
attached to the column under Lieutenant-General Lord Lynedoch, and
afterwards under Lord Niddry, and participated in all the operations
of that column. At the close of the Peninsular War he was directed
by the Duke of Wellington to conduct one of the divisions of the
British cavalry and artillery from Bordeaux to Calais, and in October
1814 was appointed to the staff of the army in Flanders, and served at
the battle of Waterloo in command of the 4th Brigade of Cavalry, in
which were the nth, I2th, and i6th Light Dragoons. He afterwards
commanded the whole of the British cavalry from the time that the
Marquis of Anglesey was wounded till King Louis XVIII. entered
Paris. Sir John Vandeleur received the Grand Cross of the Order of
the Bath, a cross for Ciudad Rodrigo, and the battles of Salamanca,
Vittoria, and Nive ; was a knight of the second class of the Russian
Order of St. Wladimir, and a commander of the Bavarian Order of
Maximilian Joseph. On I2th January 1815 he was appointed Colonel
of the 1 9th Light Dragoons, Colonel of the Fourteenth in 1823, and
Colonel of the i6th Light Dragoons (Lancers) in 1830. He died in
1849. His portrait, in Lieutenant-General's uniform, is from an en-
graving by Villain, kindly given by Mrs. Frank E. Vandeleur, whose
husband was a relative of Sir John's.
P.CLOI. GEN. SIR EDWARD KERRISON, BART., G.C.H., K.C.B.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
JUNE 1 8, 1830.
Sir Edward Edward Kerrison was born in 1774. He was the only son of
Ba".1S°n> Matthias Kerrison, Esquire, of Hexne Hall, near Bungay, Norfolk.
He became Cornet in the 6th Dragoons, 23rd June 1796; Lieutenant,
ist February 1798 ; Captain, i8th October 1798 ; Captain in the 7th
Hussars, 1798; Major, I2th May 1803; Lieutenant-Colonel, 4th April
1805; Colonel, 4th June 1813; Major-General, I2th August 1819;
Lieutenant-General, loth January 1837; and General, nth November
1851.
In 1799 Captain Kerrison, as he then was, served at the Helder in
Holland, and was present at the battles of the I9th September, 2nd
and 6th October. In 1808-9 he was in the campaign under Sir
John Moore, and was present at Corunna, i6th January 1809. He
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 479
commanded the 7th Hussars in the Peninsular, French, and Belgian Sir Edward
campaigns of 1813, 1814, 1815, being present at the battles of Orthes, g^nson>
27th February 1814; Toulouse, roth April 1814; and Waterloo, i8th
June 1815. He was also at the actions of Sauveterre and the passage
of the Oleron in the Pyrenees.
In Spain, on the 25th December 1808, when engaged with the
enemy on the plains of Leon, he was severely wounded, his arm being
broken in two places, and subsequently at the battle of Waterloo he
received a slight wound and his horse was shot under him. At the battle
of Orthes,the charge headed by Major-General Lord Edward Somerset,
in which Colonel Kerrison with the 7th Hussars took the chief part,
was highly commended by the Duke of Wellington in his despatches.
At Waterloo, after being wounded and his horse shot under him, he
continued with his regiment, and took part in the occupation of Paris.
On his return to England after the war, Kerrison was appointed a
Knight Commander of the Bath. He was created a Baronet on the
27th July 1821. On 2Oth October 1813 he married Mary Martha,
daughter of Alexander Ellice, Esquire, of Pittencrieff, Fifeshire, N.B.
His only son, Edward Clarence Kerrison, was born in 1821, and became
the second Baronet on the death of his father. His second daughter,
Emily Harriet, became in 1834 the wife of Philip Henry, Earl Stan-
hope, the well-known historian: she died in 1873. From 1812 to
1818 Sir Edward Kerrison was M.P. for Shaftesbury in the Conserva-
tive interest; M.P. for Northampton, 1818 to 1824; M.P. for Eye,
1824 to 1852. He died at his London house in Great Stanhope Street
on the 9th March 1853. He also had a residence at Wick, Sussex.
Sir Edward Kerrison received the gold medal for Orthes, and the
silver war medal with two clasps for Sahagun and Benevente, and
numerous other distinctions. He was a Knight Commander of the
Bath, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Hanover.1 The
picture of Sir Edward Kerrison was taken when he was a colonel, in
the uniform of the 7th Hussars, and is from an engraving by W. C.
Edwards, published 1818, from a painting by M. A. Shee, Esq., R.A.
$.m. GENERAL THE HON. SIR HENRY MURRAY, K.C.B.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT
DRAGOONS, MARCH 1 8, 1853.
Henry Murray, fourth son of David, second Earl of Mansfield, by The Hon.
Louisa, daughter of Charles, ninth Baron Cathcart, and Countess of?irHenry
Murray.
1 The Order of the Guelphs.
480 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
The Hon. Mansfield in her own right, was born 6th August 1784, entered the
army as Cornet, i6th May 1800; became Lieutenant, nth June 1801 ;
Captain, 24th August 1802; Major, 26th March 1809; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 2nd January 1812; Colonel, 22nd July 1830; Major-General
28th June 1838; Lieutenant-General, nth November 1851 ; General,
6th February 1855. He served in Naples, Sicily, and Calabria
in 1800-7. He was Aide-de-Camp to his uncle, Lord Cathcart,
Commander of the Forces in Ireland in 1805 ; accompanied the
expedition to Egypt in March 1807, and was present as an Aide-de-
Camp at the attack on Alexandria, siege and storming of Rosetta,
and on every other occasion when our troops were engaged.
He served at Walcheren in 1809, including the siege and surrender
of Flushing. He went with the i8th Hussars to the Peninsula
in January 1813, and was present at the crossing of the Eslar. He
commanded the Eighteenth at the action of Morales de Toro, in
support of the loth Hussars, but was injured in the knee on this
occasion, and had to proceed to England. Served in the campaign of
1815, including the battle of Quatre Bras. He commanded the rear
regiment of the column during the retreat of the following day, and at
the battle of Waterloo he led the i8th Hussars in the brilliant charge
of Sir Hussey Vivian's Brigade at the conclusion of the action. In
1842 Major-General Murray was appointed to the command at
Limerick, and afterwards at Plymouth, where he remained till 1852,
and was there during the riots of 1848. Sir Henry Murray was a
Commissioner of Chelsea Hospital, and of the Royal Military College
at Sandhurst.
His regimental career was a very varied one. He first became
Cornet in the i6th (Queen's) Light Dragoons, then Lieutenant, 6oth
Regiment; then exchanged to roth (Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons;
then became Captain-Lieutenant in the 2Oth Light Dragoons, and
Captain when that rank (Captain-Lieutenant) was abolished in 1802.
He was next appointed Major in the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment.
Later he exchanged to the i8th Hussars, became its Lieutenant-
Colonel in 1812, and commanded it for many years.
General Murray became Knight Commander of the Bath in 1860,
and he died the same year on the 29th July. There is an interesting
inscription to his memory on a monument in the Citadel Church
at Devonport.
His photogravure, which represents him when quite young as an
officer in the i8th Hussars, is from a pencil drawing (face coloured)
by Cosway, belonging to Sir Henry's daughter, Miss Murray of
Wimbledon Lodge, who kindly supplied it.
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$.001. LIEUT.-GENERAL WILLIAM BECKWITH, K.H.,
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT DRAGOONS,
NOVEMBER 12, i860.
William Beckwith became Cornet, i6th Light Dragoons, 1813 ; William
Lieutenant, 1815; Captain, 1822; Major, 1828; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1833; Beckwith.
Colonel, 1846 ; Major-General, 1854; Lieutenant-General, 26th November
1 86 1 ; and General, 28th October 1869. He served in the Peninsular
War with the i6th Light Dragoons from July 1813 to the end of the
war in 1814, including the battles of the Nivelle, 9th, and the Nive,
loth December 1813, for which he had the war medal and two clasps.
He was through the campaign of 1815, including the retreat on I7th
June and the battle of Waterloo on 1 8th June 1815, and received the
Waterloo medal. He served in the I4th Light Dragoons from 1817
to 1833, when he left on promotion to a half-pay Lieutenant-Colonelcy
on 6th December 1833. In 1831 Major Beckwith, as he then was,
greatly distinguished himself when in command of a squadron of the
Fourteenth at the Bristol riots, and he was awarded the dignity of a
Knight of the Hanoverian Order of the Guelphs in that year.
He died on 23rd February 1871.
GENERAL HENRY RICHMOND JONES, C.B.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
FEBRUARY 24, 1871.
Henry Richmond Jones was appointed Cornet in the 6th Dragoon Henry
Guards (the Carabiniers) in 1825; Lieutenant, 1826; Captain, 1830 ;
Brevet-Major, 1846; Major, 1850; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1851 ; Colonel,
28th November 1854; Major-General, 2nd April 1865; Lieutenant-
General, 6th December 1873 5 and General, ist October 1877. He
commanded the Carabiniers in the Crimea from I4th August 1855,
including the battle of the Tchernaya and the siege and fall of
Sebastopol, for which he received the Crimean war medal with clasp,
fifth class of the Medjidie, and Turkish medal. During the Indian
Mutiny campaign of 1857-58 he commanded General Penny's
column after that officer was killed by the first shot fired by the
enemy in -the action of Kirkrowlie, on 3Oth April 1858, when he
captured a gun ; was in command of a brigade of cavalry at the
capture of Bareilly (Oude), 7th May 1858. He commanded the left
column of Lord Clyde's force in the attack on Benhi Madhu's army at
Dunderke*ra, and the cavalry with Lord Clyde's troops in the Trans-
gogra campaign, including the affairs at Magedia, Chandal, Baukee,
2 H
482
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Henry
Richmond
Jones.
and the pursuit of the rebels to the Raptee. He received for these
services the Indian Mutiny medal and the Companionship of the
Order of the Bath.
General Jones served continuously for thirty-seven years in the
Carabiniers (1825-62), became full Colonel of the Fourteenth in
1871, and of the Carabiniers on i$th May 1873. He held the latter
appointment till his death in October 1881, having resided for many
years at Leamington. His portrait is from a photograph kindly
given by the General's only child, Mrs. Robert O. Milne of Leamington.
GENERAL JOHN WILKIE
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS, MAY 15, 1873.
John Wilkie. John Wilkie became Cornet, nth May 1838; Lieutenant, 29th May
1840; Captain, I7th May 1844 ; Major, 27th February 1852 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel, loth February 1854 ; Colonel, 28th November 1854; Major-
General, 6th March 1868 ; Lieutenant-General, 6th October 1876 ; and
General, 2ist December 1878.
He commanded the loth Hussars in the Crimean campaign from
I7th April 1855, including the capture of Tchorgaun, battle of the
* Tchernaya, siege and fall of Sebastopol, for which he received the
medal with clasp, fifth class of the Medjidie, and Turkish medal. He
died in 1882.
Charles
William
Thompson.
GENERAL CHARLES WILLIAM THOMPSON, K.S.F., J.P.
APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS, MAY 1 8, 1 882.
Charles William Thompson, second son of General Thomas
Perronet Thompson and his wife, Anne Elizabeth, daughter of the
Rev. Thomas Barker of York, was born at Bombay, 2ist November
1815, and received his first commission, 26th February 1836, as Ensign
in the 8ist Regiment. He served as Captain in the British Legion
in Spain under Sir de Lacy Evans, previous to his entering the army,
and was engaged at Arlaban on i6th, I7th, and i8th January 1835,
at Hernani on 3Oth August 1835, and in the action of 5th May 1836,
before San Sabastian, where he was severely wounded in the hip and
hand. For these services he received the Spanish medal, and was
made Knight, first class, of the Order of San Fernando. In 1841 he
came as Lieutenant from the 8ist Regiment to the I4th (King's) Light
Dragoons, and became Captain in 1848. He was engaged with his
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 483
regiment at Ramnuggur on 22nd November 1848, where his horse Charles
was wounded; also at Chillian wallah, I3th January 1849, where he
commanded a squadron, and at Goojerat on 2ist February 1849. He
was present with the Fourteenth at the crossing of the Chenab, the
Jhelum, and the Indus ; at the surrender of the Sikh army at Rawul
Pindhi, the capture of the bridge of boats at Attock, and the pursuit
of the Afghans to Peshawur in April 1849. F°r this campaign he
received the Punjaub war medal and two clasps, and on the 4th October
1880 he was awarded the good service pension. In 1849 he exchanged
as Captain with Captain Pearson Scott Thompson into the 7th
(Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards, subsequently commanding this
regiment for ten years, and returning with it from India in 1867, when
he retired on half-pay as Colonel, living for a time at Dover, and
afterwards settled at Wethersfield Place in Essex, where he was
made a Justice of the Peace. He died there, 3rd October 1896, in his
eightieth year, greatly and deservedly respected by all. He became
Major, 1855; Lieutenant - Colonel, 1857; Colonel, 1862; Major-
General, 1868; Lieutenant- General, 1880; Honorary General, 1 88 1.
In May 1882 he was appointed Colonel of the I4th (King's) Hussars,
his old regiment, for which he had the deepest regard, as both he and
his father had been engaged in it on active service,1 and the Four-
teenth held him in the highest respect. His last request was to be
shrouded in his old military cloak, which, he was proud to relate, he had
shared with a brother officer on the field of Goojerat when bivouacking
during the night after the battle, and this wish was carried out.
General Thompson was twice married, and left a numerous family.
His second wife survived him. One son of the General's is a Captain
in the 8ist (Loyal North Lancashire) Regiment, and another is Major
in the 7th Dragoon Guards, a detachment of which latter regiment
carried the deceased General to his grave at Wethersfield.
LIEUT.-GEN. THE HON. CHARLES WEMYSS THESIGER
APPOINTED COLONEL OF I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS, OCTOBER 4, 1896.
Charles Wemyss Thesiger, son of Frederick, the first Lord Chelms- The Hon.
ford, Lord High Chancellor of England, was born I2th October 1831. ^myL
Thesiger.
1 General C. W. Thompson's father was Lieutenant in the I4th (Duchess of
York's Own) Light Dragoons, 1812-14, and was present at the actions of Nivelle,
Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. He received the Peninsular War medal with four clasps,
and was attached to the staff of Major-General (afterwards Sir Henry) Fane. He
died a General in 1869, aged eighty-six years.
484
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
The Hon.
Charles
Wemyss
Thesiger.
When just seventeen years of age, in 1848, he was given a cadetship
in the then East India Company's service, and on 27th February 1849
was appointed Cornet in the 5th Madras Light Cavalry, with which
regiment he served till 1853, when he was transferred to the
I4th Light Dragoons. He served with the regiment in India both at
Meerut and Kirkee, and on i/th June 1857 ne went to the Innis-
killing Dragoons. In 1858 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the
Earl of Eglinton, Lord - Lieutenant in Ireland, but resigned that
appointment the same year on his regiment being ordered to India.
In 1860 he served in the China War as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-
General Pattle (King's Dragoon Guards), commanding the cavalry
brigade, and was present at the affairs of the I2th August and the
1 8th and 2ist September 1860, at Taku Forts and Pekin, for which
services he received the China War medal and two clasps. In 1867 he
returned with his regiment (the Inniskilling Dragoons) to England,
and commanded it as Lieutenant-Colonel from 1868 to 1878, when he
retired on half-pay. On 3rd April 1878 he was appointed Inspecting
Officer of Auxiliary Cavalry. In 1885, being promoted to the rank of
Major-General, he was appointed to the command of the Curragh
Brigade, and to the post of Inspector-General of Cavalry in Ireland.
In 1890 he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and
awarded a pension of £100 a year for distinguished service. In 1892
he was appointed Colonel of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, and in
1896 he was transferred to the I4th (King's) Hussars. He became
Cornet, 1849; Lieutenant, 1853; Captain, 1858; Major, 1861 ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, 1868; Colonel, 1873; Major- General, 1885; Lieu-
tenant-General, 1890; retired, 1891.
H. Killigrew.
Sol. Rapin.
Wm. Boyle.
B. Newcomin.
H. Des-
grangues.
Wm. Wright.
LIEUTENANT -COLONELS OF THE
i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
The first Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment was
HENRY KILLIGREW, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain of
a troop in the newly raised regiment of Dormer's Dragoons on
22nd July 1715.
SOLOMON RAPIN became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1716 or 1717.
WILLIAM BOYLE became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1717.
BEVERLY NEWCOMIN became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1720.
H. DESGRANGUES was Lieutenant-Colonel in 1731.
WILLIAM WRIGHT was Lieutenant-Colonel, 7th February 1737.
He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment at Prestonpans, where
^e^^W^ \./rt& SSf/'M . r>. //. . 4te44a&9~i
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 485
Sir John Cope's army was defeated by the rebels under the young Wm. Wright.
Pretender on 2ist September 1745, on which occasion Major Bowles
of the I4th Dragoons greatly distinguished himself.
JAMES NORRIS became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1749. James Norris.
THOMAS ERLE was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, I4th Dragoons, Thomas Erie.
4th September 1754; he remained at the head of the regiment as
Lieutenant-Colonel till I5th July 1773, although he became a Major-
General on 3Oth April 1770, and he was appointed Colonel of the
28th Foot, 1 3th July 1773. It is probable that he died in 1777, as his
name does not appear in the Army List after that year.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN BURGOYNE, BART.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE I4TH DRAGOONS,
JULY 15, 1773.
John Burgoyne was born in 1739, and was son of Sir Roger Sir John
Burgoyne, Bart, of Sutton, Bedfordshire. He was cousin of Lieutenant-
General the Right Honourable John Burgoyne, and entered the army
at an early age. He served in the 7th Fusiliers, and was Major in the
52nd Regiment, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5 8th Foot in
1764, in Ireland, and afterwards of the I4th Dragoons in 1773. He
became Colonel in 1777. Whilst commanding the regiment he is
believed to have established the first code of ' Standing Orders ' which
the regiment ever possessed.1
Sir J. Burgoyne commanded the regiment till 1781, when he was
commissioned to raise the 23rd Light Dragoons for service in India,
and having done so in Bedford, he proceeded with them to Madras,
where he became Major-General in 1782, having previously, in 1780,
succeeded his father in the baronetcy. It was during Sir John Bur-
goyne's command that the I4th Dragoons became ' Light Dragoons/
in 1776.
Sir John Burgoyne was under arrest in Madras for two years,
having had a dispute with the East India Company. He was tried by
court-martial, and honourably acquitted. He died in India in 1786.
Sir John's son, Sir Montagu Burgoyne, who commanded the Scots
Greys, brought an action against the Company at his father's death,
and got very heavy damages. Sir John Burgoyne's portrait, in uniform
of 23rd Light Dragoons, is from Romney's painting belonging to his
great-grandson, Colonel Sir John Montagu Burgoyne, Bart, now of
Sutton Park, Beds, who kindly allowed it to be photographed.
1 See ante, pp. 36, 38, 50.
486
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Grice
Blakeney.
John Michel.
GENERAL GRICE BLAKENEY
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
NOVEMBER ip, 1781.
Grice Blakeney became Cornet in the I4th Dragoons in 1757-58;
Lieutenant, 1 761; Captain, 1 767; Major, 1 776; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel,
1780 ; and succeeded Colonel Sir John Burgoyne, Bart, in the command
of the regiment in 1781. He became Colonel, 1790; Major-General,
1794; Lieutenant-General, 1st January 1801 ; and General, 25th October
1809. He remained Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth several
years after he became Major-General, until on the 29th April 1802
he was succeeded by Colonel Michel in the command.
It was during Colonel Blakeney's command that the regiment
became (in 1798) the 'Duchess of York's Own Light Dragoons,' and
up to 1790 the code of regimental 'Standing Orders' introduced by
Colonel Sir John Burgoyne were adhered to, and very favourably noted
by the Inspecting-Generals, especially by Lord Luttrell in 1785.
In 1799, at Canterbury, Major-General Wilford mentions that 'no
established orders existed in the corps for its direction and guidance.'
Although General Grice Blakeney's name appears as the senior
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth in the Army Lists up to the
year 1802, it is probable that after he became Major-General in October
1794, Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Carter was practically
the commanding officer till 1799, and from that date probably Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Michel, who was the second Lieutenant-Colonel, took the
command. During the campaign in St. Domingo (1795-97) the regiment
out there was under command of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur
Carter, the Major. In his later years General Grice Blakeney was
appointed Colonel of the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, and remained
so until 1814. He died in 1816.
GENERAL JOHN MICHEL
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (DUCHESS OF
YORK'S OWN) LIGHT DRAGOONS, DECEMBER 5, 1799; COM-
MANDED THE REGIMENT, 1802-1803.
John Michel became Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, 24th August
1795 ; Colonel, 29th April 1802. He commanded the regiment, 29th
April 1802-3, when he was placed on half- pay and succeeded by Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hawker. He entered the army 1781, and served at the
siege of Fort St. Philip in Minorca, and was taken prisoner on its
surrender in 1782. He was promoted Major-General, 25th October
1809; Lieutenant-General, 4th June 1814; and General, loth January
1837. He died in 1844.
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GENERAL SIR SAMUEL HAWKER, G.C.H.
(Colonel of the ^rd Dragoon Guards?)
APPOINTED THIRD LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I^-TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
JUNE 12, ISOOJ COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1803-16.
Samuel Hawker was born in 1763. He entered the army as a Cornet Sir Samuel
in the i6th Light Dragoons, I5th May 1779, and embarked with that Hawker>
regiment for the Netherlands, 24th April 1793, where he saw much
active service. He commanded the picquet at the storming of the
breach at Valenciennes, and was in temporary command of the regiment
when senior Captain from the close of the year 1793. He led the i6th
Light Dragoons, under the personal direction of H.R.H. the Duke of
York, in a charge upon a nine-gun battery covered by cavalry, which
was ' executed with great gallantry. ' J This regiment under Captain
Hawker was highly spoken of in the despatches of the Duke of York,
commanding the troops. On loth May 1794 the army was attacked
at Tournay by the French, who were 30,000 strong. On this occasion
the 1 6th Light Dragoons were led by Captain Hawker,2 and charged
a field battery of eight guns supported by cavalry and infantry, when
Captain Hawker's horse was killed under him, and he was himself
severely wounded in the chest. The i6th Light Dragoons returned
to England in 1796, when Captain Hawker was personally thanked
for his services by H.M. King George III., in the presence of the other
members of the royal family.
He became Major, Sussex Fencible Cavalry, 6th April 1797. On 6th
June 1799 he was appointed to the Lieutenant- Colonelcy of the Sussex
Fencible Cavalry, and was removed to the i4th Light Dragoons as
third Lieutenant-Colonel on I2th June 1800. On 25th April 1808 he
was appointed one of the Aides-de-Camp to H.M. King George III. with
the rank of Colonel in the army as a mark of His Majesty's approbation
of his services, and of the efficient state of the I4th Light Dragoons
under his command. In December 1808 he embarked for Portugal
with his regiment, and was engaged in several actions with the French
army, particularly at the memorable battle of Talavera (27th and 28th
July), where the regiment distinguished itself, and was highly com-
mended in the official despatches. Being severely wounded at Talavera,
he returned shortly afterwards to England. He was promoted Major-
General on 4th June 1811, and relinquished command of the regiment
at that date. He was appointed to serve as a Major-General upon the
staff of Great Britain on 2$th November 1811, and was employed in
1 Historical Record of the idth (Queen's) Light Dragoons (Lancers), by Richard
Cannon, Esqre. (1842), pp. 37, 38. 2 Ibid.
488
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Sir Samuel
Hawker.
command of the Eastern District until the 24th September 1814. He
became Lieutenant-General, iQth July 1821, and was appointed Captain
of Yarmouth Castle, in the Isle of Wight, on 22nd July 1829.
On 22nd April 1831 he was nominated by H.M. King William III.
to the Colonelcy of the 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. In
1831 Lieutenant-General Hawker was nominated a Knight Commander
of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover (K.C.H.), and in 1836 he was
advanced to the dignity of G.C.H. He became General on 28th June
1838, and died on 2/th December following at the age of seventy-five,
after a long and faithful service of nearly sixty years.
Sir Samuel Hawker's family are still settled at Binfield, Bracknell,
Berkshire, where his eldest surviving son, Mr. F. A. Hawker, has the
family residence ; and Mr. Adolphus Hawker, late of the War Office, is
another son. There were nine sons, all in their sovereign's service, either
naval, military, or civil. The late Colonel Peter Hawker of Longparish,
Hampshire, who was the author of Instructions to Young Sportsmen} was
a relative of the late Sir Samuel Hawker, and he served under him as a
Captain in the I4th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular War. Captain P.
Hawker also wrote a diary, published a few years ago, which contains
some of his experiences with the old I4th Light Dragoons. Sir S.
Hawker, in his later years, was a favourite at Court with H.M. King
William IV., and on one occasion, when staying at Windsor Castle on a
visit to the King, he had the good luck to hook a trout in the Thames,
not far from the Castle, which weighed fourteen pounds. Fishing was
one of the old General's favourite pastimes. When quite a young
officer he commanded the escort of cavalry which escorted Lord
George Gordon as a prisoner to the Tower in 1780. The photogravure
of Sir Samuel is from a photograph of an oil painting by Lucas, taken
in the uniform of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, of which he was Colonel
1831-38, kindly given by F. A. Hawker, Esq., his son.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NEIL TALBOT
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
AUGUST 22, 1805.
Neil Taibot. Neil Talbot entered the army as an Ensign in the 27th Regiment,
25th June 1789; was promoted Lieutenant, 3Oth November 1791,
Captain in the iiSth Regiment, loth July 1794. On I9th October
1796, Captain Talbot was removed to the i4th Light Dragoons. He
was promoted to a Majority on 25th June 1802, and to a Lieutenant-
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THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 489
Colonelcy on 22nd August 1805. ^n December 1808 he embarked Neil Taibot.
with his regiment for the Peninsula. He was engaged in an affair
with the enemy near Sexmiro on i ith July 1810, when a portion of the
1 4th Light Dragoons charged a square of French infantry 200 strong.
The square withstood the charge and opened a terrific fire on the
charging horsemen. The gallant Lieutenant - Colonel Taibot, a
Quartermaster (M'Cormick), and eleven men of the regiment fell dead
close up to the bayonets. The affair arose out of an attempt to cut
off the French picquets on the Agueda, in front of Ciudad Rodrigo.
At the battle of Talavera, 28th July 1809, Lieutenant-Colonel
Taibot had a horse killed under him, and from shortly after that battle,
when Colonel Hawker was wounded and was obliged soon after to
proceed to England, Lieutenant-Colonel Taibot practically commanded
the regiment in the field until the day of his death, though Colonel
Hawker was the actual Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding until his
promotion to Major-General in 1811.
COLONEL SIR FELTON BATHURST HERVEY,
BART, C.B., K.H., A.D.C.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
AUGUST 2, l8lO| COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1814-19.
Felton Bathurst Hervey entered the army as a Cornet in the Sir Felton
3rd Dragoon Guards on 6th May 1800, was promoted to a company H^"1 Bart
of infantry on 9th July 1803, and removed to the I4th Light Dragoons,
28th July 1803. He was promoted Major on the 8th May 1806,
and became second Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment in succession
to Lieutenant-Colonel Taibot. Colonel S. Hawker, who was the com-
manding officer of the Fourteenth at this time, had previously gone
to England in consequence of his wound received at the battle of
Talavera on 28th July 1809, and from that date to the day of his death,
Lieutenant-Colonel Taibot had commanded the regiment in the field,
and upon his lamented death, Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey assumed the
command, and held it during the remaining four years of the war. It
was under him that the Fourteenth became so famous as a light
cavalry regiment, and was constantly employed on the outpost duties,
while Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey gained a great reputation, having
been highly distinguished by his soldier-like conduct on many notable
occasions when he was present with the regiment. His chief actions
were the following : — Passage of the Douro, I2th May 1809, where he
lost an arm; Venta de Serra, 8th March 1811, where he made a sue-
490 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Sir Felton cessful charge with three squadrons of the I4th Light Dragoons against
Bart ^our squadrons of the nth and 26th French Dragoons, and captured
14 men and 14 horses, losing only 2 men and 2 horses ; Fuentes
d'Onor, on 5th May 1811, where he had his horse killed under him
and received a severe contusion; at Carpio on 25th September 1811,
against the Lancers of Berg; after the capture of Badajoz on the
night of the loth April 1812, an enterprise against a large body of
French cavalry ; battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812; battle of Vittoria,
2ist June 1813 ; battle of Orthes, 27th February 1814.
He became the only Lieutenant-Colonel and commanding officer of
the Fourteenth on 4th June 1811, when Colonel Hawker was promoted
to the rank of Major-General, and remained so until his death in
1819. On the 4th June 1814, Lieutenant-Colonel Hervey was ap-
pointed A.D.C. to the Prince Regent (afterwards George IV.) with
the rank of Colonel in the army, and he was created a baronet for
his services in 1818. At the battle of Waterloo he served on the
personal staff of the Duke of Wellington, and was afterwards appointed
Secretary to the Master- General of the Ordnance. His premature
death on 24th September 1819 was deeply regretted by all ranks of
the regiment and by his numerous friends. The following is a list
of his medals, orders, crosses, etc. : — Crosses for the battles of Fuentes
d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, and Orthes ; gold medals for the battles
of Fuentes d'Onor, 1811, and Salamanca, 1812; medal for the battle
of Waterloo, 1815 ; Companion of the Order of the Guelphs; Com-
panion of the Order of the Bath ; Russian Order of St. George of
Wladimir ; Austrian Order of Maria Theresa ; Portuguese Order of
Tower and Sword ; Bavarian Order of Joseph Maximilian ; Prussian
Order of Merit ; Knight of St. Henry of Saxony. The officers of the
I4th Light Dragoons presented a sword to Sir Felton Hervey in I8I3,1
which is reproduced in the photogravure with his portrait, kindly sup-
plied by Captain Sir F. Hervey Bathurst, Bart., Grenadier Guards.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES MASSEY BAKER
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS,
SEPTEMBER 30, 1819.
Charles Massey Charles Massey Baker entered the army as an Ensign in the 27th
Regiment on 3oth March 1788; became Lieutenant, 3Oth November
1 Sir Felton Hervey's picture at Somborne Park, Stockbridge, hangs with the
sword below. The inscription attached to the latter is as follows :— ' From the Officers
of the xivth Light Dragoons to Lieutenant- Colonel Hervey. MDCCCXHI.'
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 491
1791; and Captain, 22nd Dragoons, 3ist August 1795. He was Charles Massey
removed to the I4th (Duchess of York's Own) Light Dragoons on Baker>
3rd March 1804, and became Major, 3Oth January 1813. On the
death of Colonel Sir F. B. Hervey, Bart., C.B., A.D.C., he was pro-
moted Lieutenant-Colonel, and appointed to the command of the
regiment 3Oth September 1819. He commanded the Fourteenth during
the next ten years, and retired from the army, I5th April 1829. He
was a Captain at the battle of Talavera on 28th July 1809, and his
horse was killed under him in that action.
COLONEL JOHN TOWNSEND, A.D.C.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE I4/TH LIGHT
DRAGOONS, APRIL 1 6, 1829.
John Townsend entered the army as a Cornet in the i4th Light John
Dragoons on 24th June 1805, was promoted to a Lieutenantcy, 27th Townsend-
February 1806, and to a troop on the 6th June 1811. He served
in the Peninsula from December 1808 until taken prisoner near the
city of Pau, in France, on 8th March 1814, including the different
affairs of the loth and nth May, and in crossing the Douro on the
1 2th May 1809 ; battle of Talavera, July 1809; affair with the enemy's
advanced posts on the nth July 1810 in front of Ciudad Rodrigo,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Talbot, who was killed ;
passage of the Coa ; skirmishes of the rearguard from Almeida to
the lines of Torres Vedras in 1810; affairs during the enemy's retreat
from Santarem to the frontiers of Spain, from 6th March to 4th April
1811; battle of Fuentes d'Onor, where he was wounded, I5th May
1811; affair with the enemy's lancers, 25th September 1811; siege
of Badajoz, 1811 ; affairs with the enemy's cavalry at Usagre and
Llerena in front of Salamanca, loth April 1812, and near Castrillos,
1 8th July 1812 ; battle of Salamanca, 22nd July 1812 ; affair with the
enemy's rearguard near Penaranda, 23rd July 1812 ; several skirmishes
from Madrid to Ciudad Rodrigo, November 1812 ; and from May 26th,
when near Salamanca, to the date of the battle of Vittoria on 2 1st
June 1813, in which he took part; taking of a gun from the enemy
near Pampeluna, and several engagements and skirmishes from the
entry of the British army into France until the battle of Orthes on
27th February 1814. He embarked with the Fourteenth for America
in October 1814, and was present at the attack on New Orleans on
8th January 1815. He was promoted to a Majority in the regiment
492
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
John
Townsend.
on 1 3th September 1821, and to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy on the
retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, i6th April 1829. He em-
barked in command of the regiment for India on the 24th May 1841,
and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
with the rank of Colonel in the army, on the 2$rd November 1841.
He returned from India on leave of absence in the early part of the
year 1845, and died at Castle Townsend, in Ireland, on the 22nd April
1845, after nearly forty years' service in the I4th Light Dragoons.
The photogravure of Colonel Townsend is from an oil portrait
presented to the officers' mess by the late Captain Stuart Robertson,
when serving in the Fourteenth.
William
Havelock.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM HAVELOCK, K.H.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE I4TH (KING'S)
LIGHT DRAGOONS, APRIL 30, 1841 ; COMMANDED THE REGI-
MENT, 1845-48.
William Havelock, son of H. Havelock, Esquire, formerly of
Ingress Park, near Dartford, was born in 1795. He was educated at
Charterhouse School, and then studied under a private tutor before
entering the army, which he did on I2th July 1810, as Ensign in
the 43rd Light Infantry. The celebrated Major-General Sir Henry
Marshman Havelock, K.C.B., was his younger brother. At the
age of fifteen he carried the colours of his regiment in the action
of Coa. He was promoted Lieutenant on I2th May 1812, and
became Captain in the 32nd Regiment on the I9th February 1818.
He exchanged to the 4th Light Dragoons on the I9th July 1821,
and was promoted Major on the 3ist December 1830. Major
Havelock was promoted from the 4th Light Dragoons to be second
Lieutenant-Colonel on the augmentation of the I4th Light Dragoons
to the Indian establishment, on the 3oth April 1841, and succeeded
to the command of the regiment on the death of Colonel Townsend,
23rd April 1845. His services in Europe were as follows: — In the
Peninsular War from July 1810, till the end of the war in 1814, in-
cluding the battles of Busaco, Sabugal, Salamanca, and Vittoria ;
passage of the Bidassoa ; the battle of the Nivelle ; the affair near
Bayonne ; and the battles of Orthes and Toulouse. He served also
in the campaign of 1815, and was wounded at Quatre Bras. At the
battle of Waterloo he was Aide-de-Camp to General Baron Alten, and
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 493
received for his services the Cross of the Hanoverian Order. Sub- William
sequently he served at Corfu, and afterwards, on exchanging as avec
Captain to the 4th Light Dragoons, proceeded with his regiment
to Bombay, where he was Aide-de-Camp to Sir Charles Colville ; then
to Madras, where he was Military Secretary to Lord Elphinstone.
After his promotion into the I4th Light Dragoons in 1841, he served
in the various movements of Major-General Sir Charles Napier's force
in the Bombay Contingent, and afterwards proceeded with the Four-
teenth to the Punjaub, where on the 22nd November 1848 he fell
mortally wounded, at the head of his regiment, when gallantly leading
a charge against the Sikh forces of Shere Singh at Ramnuggur, on
the banks of the Chenab.
Colonel Havelock married Miss Chaplin, related to the late Chief-
Justice Tindal, and he left a large family. One of his sons, Colonel
A. C. Havelock, was appointed Colonel in the Madras Staff Corps
in 1885, and another is Sir Arthur E. Havelock, G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I.,
G.C.I. E., late Governor of Madras. Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock
was a Knight of the Hanoverian Order of the Guelphs, and had
received several war medals, to which no officer was better entitled
for his thorough knowledge of his profession, as well as for his
personal courage. Major-General Sir William Napier in his History
of the War in the Peninsula mentions young Lieutenant Havelock,
as he then was, of the 43rd Regiment, after the passage of the
Bidassoa, at the second combat at Vera, in the Pyrenees, in October
1813. When on a critical occasion our allies, the Spaniards,
were wavering under the heavy fire of two French regiments,
posted behind a strong line of abattis, Lieutenant William Have-
lock, attached to Baron Alten's staff, was sent to ascertain how
General Giron, who commanded the Andalusians, was progressing.
He came up with them near the Puerto, between Vera and Sarre,
and seeing the hesitation (Napier says), ' His fiery temper could not
brook the check. Taking off his hat he called upon the Spaniards
to follow him, and putting spurs to his horse, at one bound cleared
the abattis and went headlong amongst the enemy. Then the soldiers,
shouting for " El chico bianco " — " the fair boy," so they called him,
for he was very young and had light hair — with one shock broke
through the French, and this at the very moment when their centre
was flying under the fire of Kempt's skirmishers from the Puerto
de Vare." *
1 History of the War in the Peninsula, vol. v. book xxii. chap. 4, p. 319.
494
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
William
Havelock.
His picture is from a pencil-sketch copied from a water-colour
portrait, in staff undress uniform, taken by Prince Soltikoff at Madras
about the year 1842, when Havelock was Military Secretary to Lord
Elphinstone, Governor of Madras, and was kindly supplied by his sons,
Colonel A. C. Havelock, late Madras Staff Corps, and Sir Arthur
Havelock, G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., late Governor of Madras.
Edward
Harvey.
MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD HARVEY
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE I4TH (KING'S)
LIGHT DRAGOONS, APRIL 23, 1845.
Edward Harvey entered the army as Cornet in the 4th Light
Dragoons on the 24th March 1825 ; was promoted Lieutenant on the
4th May 1826, and Captain of infantry on the I2th October 1830. He
exchanged to the I4th Light Dragoons, 2/th December 1833, and was
promoted Major on the 3<Dth April 1841. On 3ist December 1841
he received the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was appointed
second Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment on 23rd April 1845, on the
decease of Colonel Townsend. He subsequently retired from the regi-
ment in April 1848, and was succeeded as second Lieutenant-Colonel
by Major J. W. King, who subsequently commanded the Fourteenth
after Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock fell at Ramnuggur. Lieutenant-
Colonel Harvey served at the investment of Kolapore, East Indies, in
1827; was employed on the staff in the operations against Ibrahim
Pasha in Syria, 1840-41, and was present at the skirmish with the
Egyptian troops near Askelon, I5th January 1841. He was placed on
half-pay, 25th April 1848, as an unattached Lieutenant-Colonel, became
Colonel, 2Oth June 1854, and Major-General, 26th October 1858. For
his war services he received the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, the
Syrian war medal, and a gold medal from the Sultan. After rejoining
his regiment in India in 1842, subsequent to the Syrian campaign,
he served with the wing of the I4th Light Dragoons, in 1844, at the
bombardment and capture of the Mahratta fortresses of Panulla and
Pownaghur, and was in command of the 3rd Brigade of the Field
Force when, on the assault of Panulla by the ist and 2nd Brigades,
the fortress of Pownaghur was taken by the 3rd Brigade, for which
he received in General Orders the thanks of the Bombay Government.
He died in 1864.
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 495
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN WALLACE KING, CB.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUT.-COL., I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT DRAGOONS,
APRIL 25, 1848; COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1848-50.
John Wallace King became Cornet, 24th March 1825 ; Lieutenant, John Wallace
I4th February 1828; Captain, 5th Dragoon Guards, 28th December King-
1832 ; Major, 1845 ; exchanged from 5th (Princess Charlotte of
Wales's) Dragoon Guards into the I4th Light Dragoons with Major W.
H. Archer, 8th September 1846; promoted second Lieutenant-Colonel,
I4th Light Dragoons, 25th April 1848; and after the death of
Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock at Ramnuggur he got command of the
regiment. He commanded the regiment through the rest of the Sikh
war, being present at the battles of Chillianwallah and Goojerat, and
in the pursuit of the Sikhs across the Jhelum, and of the Afghans
through the Khyber Pass. He died at Lahore in July 1850, when in
command of the regiment. He received a C.B. for his services in the
Punjaub, and was very favourably mentioned in Major-General Sir
Joseph Thackwell's despatches after the battle of Goojerat.
GENERAL HENRY EDWARD DOHERTY, C.B.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUT.-COLONEL IN THE I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT
DRAGOONS, NOVEMBER 23; COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1850-57.
Henry Edward Doherty became Cornet, 3ist December 1833 ; Henry Edward
Lieutenant, I5th July 1836; Captain, i;th May 1839; Major, 22nd Doherty.
October 1847; Lieutenant-Colonel, 23rd November 1848; Colonel,
28th November 1854; Colonel on half-pay, 25th August 1857 ; Major-
General, 8th February 1863 ; Lieutenant-General, 25th October 1871 ;
General, ist October 1877. He served with the I4th Light Dragoons
throughout the Punjaub campaign of 1848-49, including the action of
Ramnuggur, passage of the Chenab, battles of Chillianwallah and
Goojerat, pursuit of the enemy across the Jhelum, and of the Afghans
across the Indus through the Khyber Pass, for which he received the
medal with two clasps. At Ramnuggur he brought the charging
squadrons under Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, who was killed, across
the nullah and out of the enemy's entrenchments, and at the battle of
Goojerat he commanded a mixed body of Her Majesty's Dragoons and
Native Light Cavalry. He received a C.B. for his services. On the
death of Colonel King, in July 1850, he succeeded to the command of
496 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Henry Edward the regiment, which he retained till August 1857. He was placed
Doherty. on the retjrecj nst by the royal warrant of 2 5th June 1881, and he
died in 1885.
His portrait was kindly supplied by his nephew, Major D. H.
Doherty, late 3rd (King's Own) Hussars.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CHARLES STEUART, C.B.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT
DRAGOONS, JULY 7, 1850; COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1857-61.
Charles Charles Steuart became Cornet, loth December 1825 ; Lieutenant,
5th February 1829; Captain, 9th November 1838; Major, 25th April
1848 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 7th July 1850; Colonel, 28th November 1854 ;
Major- General, 3rd October 1864; and Lieutenant-General, 6th May
1873. He served with the I4th Light Dragoons in the Punjaub cam-
paign of 1848-49, including the battles of Chillianwallah, when he
received a sabre-wound, and Goojerat, pursuit of the enemy across the
Jhelum, and of the Afghans over the Indus through the Khyber Pass,
for which he received the medal and clasps. He commanded a cavalry
brigade in the Persian expedition of 1857, for which he received the
medal, and C.B. on ist January 1858 ; commanded the 2nd Brigade of
the Central India Field Force under Sir Hugh Rose in 1858, and was
present at the siege and capture of Rathgur, action of Barodia, relief
of Saugor, and capture of Garrakota, forcing the Muddenpore Pass,
siege and capture of Jhansi, and the battles of the Betwa and Koonch,
for which he received the Indian Mutiny medal and clasp.
He succeeded to the command of the I4th Light Dragoons on
26th August 1857, and retired from the regiment when it was at
Newbridge in June 1861. He was appointed Colonel of the nth
(Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, I9th January 1873, and died on the
22nd May 1873.
GENERAL CHARLES PHILIP DE AINSLIE
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT
DRAGOONS, AUGUST 26, 1857.
Charles Philip Charles Philip de Ainslie, representative of the ancient family of
De Ainslie of Dilphington, Roxburghshire, N.B., entered the service
as Second-Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on loth April 1825; became
Lieutenant, 28th June 1826; Captain, i6th March 1830; Major, I4th
October 1842 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 22nd October 1847; Colonel, 28th
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 497
November 1854. He served in several cavalry regiments, in the 4th Charles Philip
('Queen's Own') Light Dragoons, in the 1st Royal Dragoons, I4thde Ainshe-
(King's) Light Dragoons, and 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards.
His first commission in the I4th Light Dragoons was that of Major,
dated 3rd February 1843, when he came from the Royal Dragoons.
He subsequently commanded the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon
Guards, and came back again to the I4th Light Dragoons in August
1857 as second Lieutenant-Colonel. He remained with the regiment
till 28th August 1860, when the establishment was reduced to one
lieutenant-colonel on returning from India, and he was placed on half-
pay. He became Major-General, 1862; Lieutenant-General, 1871;
General in 1877 ; and was appointed Colonel of the Royal Dragoons
in March 1869.
From June 1827 to May 1828, Lieutenant De Ainslie was Aide-de-
Camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Bradford, K.C.B.,Commander-
in-Chief at Bombay.
From May 1840 to ist April 1842, Captain De Ainslie was Aide-
de-Camp to Major-General Lord Greenock, K.C.B., commanding the
forces in Scotland. On the 25th August 1857, Colonel De Ainslie
from half-pay came back to serve for the second time in the I4th
(King's) Light Dragoons, and joining that corps in India as its second
Lieutenant-Colonel, he commanded the cavalry at Kirkee, and after-
wards as Brigadier-General at Jhansi. In May 1866, as Major-General,
he commanded the troops in the Windward and Leeward Islands,
with headquarters at Barbadoes, and afterwards at Jamaica.
He was the author of Historical Record of the Royal Dragoons,
published by Chapman and Hall, 1887; and died at the Buckingham
Palace Hotel, London, in 1890.
MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR SCUDAMORE, C.B.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) LIGHT DRAGOONS,
JUNE 19, 1861.
Arthur Scudamore was appointed Cornet, 29th May 1835; Lieu- Arthur
tenant, i8th February 1838; Captain, 22nd October 1847; Major, I st Scudamore.
June 1854; Lieutenant-Colonel, 2Oth July 1858; Colonel, 9th November
1862; and Major-General in 1875, with ante-date to 28th June 1868.
He served with the 4th Light Dragoons throughout the campaign of
1839, under Lord Keane, in Afghanistan, including the siege and
capture of Ghuznee, for which he received a medal ; also throughout
the Punjaub campaign of 1848-49 with the I4th Light Dragoons,
2 I
498
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Arthur
Scudamore.
including the action of Ramnuggur, where he was wounded (sabred in
the face) ; passage of the Chenab, battle of Chillianwallah and battle
of Goojerat, where he was dangerously wounded ; and for these services
he received the medal with two clasps. He commanded the regiment
(in the absence of Colonel Steuart, C.B., who was commanding a brigade)
during the campaign of 1858 in Central India, under Major-General Sir
Hugh Rose, K.C.B., and was present at the siege and capture of Rathgur,
action of Barodia, relief of Saugor, and capture of Garrakota. He
commanded the detached force sent against Maltone1 Pass, was present
at the siege and capture of Jhansi, where he commanded the outposts
during the investment ; was present at the battle of Koonch, and at all
the affairs during the advance on Calpee, including the action of
Golowlee ; also present at the action of Morar and recapture of
Gwalior. He commanded a flying column for six months in the
Gwalior and Jhansi districts, and for his distinguished services was
three times mentioned in despatches, received the brevet rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, the C.B., and the Indian Mutiny medal, with clasp
for Central India.2 He was appointed to the command of the I4th
Light Dragoons, ipth June 1861, and it was during his command
that the regiment was converted into Hussars at Newbridge, on I7th
August 1861. On the 8th October he exchanged to the command
of the /th Hussars with Lieutenant- Colonel Sir William Russell, Bart,
C.B., who came to command the I4th Hussars.
On ist April 1873, Colonel Scudamore was appointed to command
the 34th Brigade Depdt at Exeter, and commanded a cavalry brigade
in the Dartmoor Manoeuvres held during the autumn months of 1873.
He died in 1880.
Sir William
Russell, Bart.
COLONEL SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, BART., C.B.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
OCTOBER 8, 1 86 1.
William Russell was born 5th April 1822. He was eldest son of Sir
William Russell, Bart, M.D., of Charlton Park, Gloucestershire, who
was created a Baronet in 1832. He entered the army as Cornet in the
7th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons (Hussars) on 2nd July 1841,
having succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1839. He served with
his regiment in Canada and the East Indies, his commissions bearing
1 Mdlthon (Malleson).
2 Lieutenant-Colonel Scudamore was President of the court-martial which tried
Tantia Topee at Goona and Sipri (Central India) in April 1859.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 499
date as follows : Lieutenant, 27th February 1846; Captain, i6th April Sir William
1847; Major, I3th August 1857 J Lieutenant-Colonel, 2Oth July 1858 ; Russell> Bart-
Colonel, 2Oth July 1863, Major-General, 24th December 1868 ; retired
with honorary rank of Lieutenant-General in 1881. He served on the
Staff in the Crimea in 1855-56, and received the medal ; served in the
Indian campaign from February 1858 to March 1859 with the 7th
Hussars"; was present at the repulse of the enemy's attack on the
Alumbagh, siege and capture of Lucknow, for which he received the
brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He commanded the 7th Hussars at
the affairs of Barree and Sirsee, action of Nawabgunge, occupation of
Fyzabad, passage of the Goomtee at Sultanpore, throughout the
Byswarra campaign, including the affairs of Pandoo Nuddee, Palee-
ghat, Hyderghur, and pursuit of Benhi Madho's force to the Goomtee ;
also in the Trans-Gogra campaign, including the affair near Churda
and pursuit, taking the fort of Meejeedia, attack on Bankee with
pursuit to the Raptee, advance into Nepaul and affair of Sitkaghat :
for which services he was several times mentioned in despatches and
received the C.B. and medal with clasp, having commanded a brigade
of cavalry during some of the time in India. In October 1861 he
exchanged with Lieutenant-Colonel Scudamore, C.B., into the I4th
(King's) Hussars, and commanded the regiment from 1861 to 1864.
He was Aide-de-Camp to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1847 to
1852, and again in 1854 ; and Master of the Horse in Ireland, 1848-51.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire and sat as M.P. for
Dover (as a Liberal), 1857-59, and for Norwich, 1860-74. He died
in 1892.
MAJOR-GENERAL PEARSON SCOTT THOMPSON, C.B.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
NOVEMBER 29, 1864.
Pearson Scott Thompson entered the army as Cornet in the 7th Pearson Scott
Dragoon Guards, 5th August 1842. He became Lieutenant, 7th June7
1844; Captain, 3rd September 1847; Major, 2Oth July 1858; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 3rd July 1860; Colonel, 6th January 1867. He served against
the emigrant Boers in 1845, beyond the Orange River in South
Africa, and again throughout the Kaffir campaign of 1846-47 with the
7th Dragoon Guards. He exchanged to the I4th (King's) Light
Dragoons in 1849 with Captain C. W. Thompson, who went to the 7th
Dragoon Guards, and who was subsequently full Colonel of the I4th
(King's) Hussars, 1882-96. Captain P. S. Thompson served with
500
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Pearson Scott the I4th Hussars in the Central India Field Force in 1858 under
Thompson. Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., and was present at the siege
and capture of Jhansi, 5th April 1858 ; at the capture of the fort of
Lohari, 6th May 1858 ; action of Koonch, 7th May 1858 ; battle of
Golowlee, 22nd May ; capture of Calpee, 23rd May ; capture of the
Morar cantonments, i6th June ; recapture of the town and fortress of
Gwalior, ipth June 1858. He commanded a flying column in Bundel-
cund,1 consisting of cavalry, artillery, and native infantry, 27th July
1858 to 2nd November 1858 ; commanded at the affair near the
village of Garotha, captured three guns from the enemy, and com-
manded the cavalry at the affair of Malthone. For his services at
Garotha he received the thanks of the Governor-General in Council at
Bombay, ' for the dashing and successful attack made by the troops
under his command/ — he was then a Captain. He was awarded the
brevets of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for his services in the field
during the Indian Mutiny campaign.
On i6th June 1861 he became Major in the I4th Light Dragoons, and
on 29th November 1864 was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy,
succeeding Colonel Sir William Russell, Bart, C.B., in the com-
mand of the regiment. He retired on half-pay from the command of
the regiment, 28th April 1875, having always received the highest
credit from the authorities, more particularly for his excellent stable
system and the management of his young horses. In 1869 he was
awarded the Companionship of the Bath, in recognition of his dis-
tinguished services, and on i8th October 1876 he was appointed to
the command of the Sunderland Brigade Depot, which he held till his
promotion to the rank of Major-General, ist October 1877. He died
at Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1878, deeply regretted, and he was always
most highly esteemed by his brother officers and all who had served
under him.
Francis
Pemberton
Campbell.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCIS PEMBERTON
CAMPBELL
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
APRIL 29, 1875.
Francis P.Campbell became Ensign, 3rd November 1854; Lieu-
tenant, 9th March 1855 ; Captain, I4th January 1862 ; Major, 2nd
December 1868 ; and Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th April 1875. He served
1 Bundelkhand (Malleson).
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 501
with the 79th Highlanders in the Crimea from I2th July 1855, includ- Francis
ing the siege and fall of Sebastopol and assault of the Redan, on the
8th September, for which he received the medal with clasp and the
Turkish medal. He also served with the 79th Highlanders in the
Indian Mutiny campaign, including the siege and capture of Lucknow,
action of Bareilly, Shahjehanpore, and Mohundeer. From September
1858 he served with the ist Punjaub Cavalry, and was present at the
capture of Rampore Kassia and pursuit, passage of the Gogra, affairs
of Churda and attack on Bankee, with pursuit to the Raptee, advance
into Nepaul, and affair at Sitkaghat. He also served with Colonel Sir
Alfred H. Horsford's force on the frontier of Nepaul from January to
June 1859, f°r which services he received another medal and clasp.
He commanded the I4th Hussars when the regiment embarked
for India in 1876; and on the I4th June 1876, after a short illness, he
died of acute dysentery at Bangalore, at the early age of thirty-nine
years, very deeply regretted.
MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT, C.B.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
JUNE IS, 1876.
William Arbuthnot, eldest son of the late Archibald F. Arbuthnot, William
Esq. (who was son of Sir William Arbuthnot, first Baronet), and Arbuthnot.
the late Honourable Gertrude Sophia, daughter of the first Viscount
Gough, was born 27th September 1838. He was educated at Eton,
and entered the army as Ensign in the Rifle Brigade, 25th March
1856. He became Lieutenant, 3rd June 1859 J exchanged into the I4th
(King's) Hussars in 1861 ; became Captain, 29th November 1864;
Brevet-Major, 1 5th August 1868; Major, I4th Hussars, loth August
1870; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 5th June 1876; Colonel, I5th June 1881 ;
Major-General, iQth March 1890.
He served with the Rifle Brigade in the Indian Mutiny campaign,
1857-58, including the operations on the Ramgunga, the siege and
capture of Lucknow, and subsequent operations in Oude, for which he
received the medal with clasp. He also served in the Abyssinian
campaign, 1867-68, as Aide-de-Camp and Assistant Military Secretary
to Major-General Lord Napier of Magdala, who commanded the
expedition, and was present at the capture of Magdala, for which he
was mentioned in despatches, and received the medal and the brevet
rank of Major.
502
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
William
Arbuthnot.
He served in the Transvaal campaign in the South African
war of 1 88 1, where he commanded the I4th (King's) Hussars. He
was present in the Soudan Expedition, 1885, at Suakin, as Deputy
Adjutant-General, for which services he received the medal with clasp,
the bronze star, and the Companionship of the Bath.
Major-General Arbuthnot passed the final examination of the Staff
College in 1863, and held the following Staff appointments : — A.D.C. to
Lieutenant-General, Madras, 3Oth June 1858 to 27th February 1861 ;
A.D.C. to Brigadier-General, Aldershot, 4th February 1862 to 3Oth
September 1862 ; A.D.C. to Brigadier-General, Dublin and Curragh
Division, 22nd March to 3ist December 1864 ; A.D.C. to General
Officer Commanding Abyssinian Expedition, 8th January 1868 to
1 7th April 1868; Assistant Military Secretary to General Officer
Commanding Abyssinian Expedition, i8th April 1868 to 24th May
1868 ; Brigade-Major of Cavalry, Aldershot, ist February 1869 to I5th
August 1870; Garrison Instructor, Aldershot, ist January 1873 to 2Oth
January 1873 ; Deputy- Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Malta,
ist April 1882 to October 1882; Brigadier-General, Egypt, 2 ist October
1882 to 24th December 1883 ; Deputy- Adjutant and Quartermaster-
General, Malta, 25th December 1883 to iQth February 1885; Deputy-
Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Expeditionary Force, Suakin,
2Oth February 1885 to I3th June 1885 ; Assistant Adjutant-General,
Headquarters of Army, 28th December 1885 to ist April 1890.
He died near London, September 1893, and was buried in Brompton
Cemetery. A detachment of the regiment was present at his funeral
to do honour to his memory, as well as the Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Fourteenth, Colonel the Hon. G. H. Gough, with others who had
served under his command.
John Hunter
Knox.
COLONEL JOHN HUNTER KNOX
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
JUNE 15, l88l.
John Hunter Knox was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William
Knox of Britas, near Thurles, Ireland, formerly of the I3th Light
Dragoons. He entered the army as Cornet, 3oth March 1858 ; became
Lieutenant, 8th February 1861 ; Captain, 2nd October 1866; Major,
1 5th June 1876; Lieutenant-Colonel, I5th June 1881 ; Colonel, I5th
June 1885. He served with the I4th Hussars in the Transvaal during
the Boer campaign of 1881, and succeeded to the command of the
THE HTM (KING'S) HUSSARS 503
regiment after Colonel Arbuthnot's retirement in June 1881. He died John Hunter
very suddenly when in command of the regiment at Secunderabad, Knox>
India, on the 24th October 1885, of liver disease.
MAJOR-GENERAL FRANCIS SHIRLEY RUSSELL, C.M.G.
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S)
HUSSARS, JULY I, 1 88 1.
Francis Shirley Russell was born I3th December 1840, educated at Francis Shirley
Radley and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree RusselL
with honours in 1862. He entered the army as Cornet in the I4th
Hussars, 6th February 1863; became Lieutenant, 23rd August 1864;
Captain, I3th June 1868; Brevet-Major, ist April 1874; Major, I4th
Hussars, i$th June 1881 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, ist July 1881 ; Colonel,
ist July 1885; Major-General, 2Oth January 1897; retired, 1898. He
served in the Ashanti War from I7th December 1873, was attached to
Wood's regiment, and commanded the post of Accrofooma on the lines
of communication, for which services he received the brevet rank of
Major and the medal with clasp. He served in the latter phase of the
Zulu War of 1879 as Deputy- Assistant Adjutant-General, 2nd Division,
and was present in the engagement at Ulundi on the 4th July 1879,
for which he received the medal with clasp. He was present with the
I4th (King's) Hussars in the Boer campaign in South Africa in the
year 1881. Major-General Russell passed the final Staff College
examination in 1873, and held the following staff appointments : —
A.D.C. to General Officer Commanding the Forces in Ireland,
ist March 1869 to 3<Dth June 1870.
Special Service, Ashanti Expedition, 4th December 1873 to 28th
March 1874.
Instructor in Tactics, Royal Military College, i8th September
1875 to 27th December 1876.
Special Service, South Africa, i6th May 1879 to 2Oth October
1879-
Military Attache^ Berlin, 1887-90.
In 1881 he exchanged from the I4th Hussars to the Royal
Dragoons with Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Morton, and commanded the
Royal Dragoons from 1885 to 1887.
In 1891 he was awarded the Companionship of the Order of
St. Michael and St. George.
In February 1892, Colonel Russell was appointed to command the
5o4 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Francis Shirley Aberdeen Volunteer Brigade, and in 1895 he was returned in the Con-
servative interest as Member of Parliament for Cheltenham. He is a
J.P. and Deputy- Lieutenant of the county of Aberdeen, where he has
a country residence, ' Aden.' He is author of Cavalry Field Duty,
Russian Wars with Turkey, Memoir of the Earl of Peterborough, and
other works. He became Colonel of the ist (Royal) Dragoons, 9th
June 1900.
COLONEL CHARLES FALKINER MORTON
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
JUNE 10, 1882; COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1885-87.
Charles Charles Falkiner Morton, son of the late T. C. Morton, Esq.,
Falkiner Barrister-at-Law, of Calcutta, was born 7th November 1843 ; educated
Morton. ' ^J '
at Eton, and entered the army as Cornet in the ist Royal Dragoons,
1 8th February 1862 ; became Lieutenant, 2 ist July 1863 ; Captain,
I2th June 1869 ; Major, loth April 1881 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, ist July
1 88 1 ; Colonel, ist July 1885. He served with the Royal Dragoons
in Great Britain and Ireland, 1862-82, when he exchanged into the
1 4th (King's) Hussars with Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Russell, and
joined the regiment at Secunderabad, in India. Upon the death of
Colonel Knox in 1885, Colonel Morton succeeded to the command
of the regiment, which he retained till 3Oth June 1887, bringing the
Fourteenth home from India in 1886, and retired on half-pay when
quartered at Shorncliffe.
In July 1887, Colonel Morton commanded the wing of the Four-
teenth which took part in the Queen's Jubilee Review at Aldershot
on 9th July, his services being specially retained for a fortnight after
3Oth June to cover the Jubilee celebrations.
He was employed in the Army Remount Establishment as Assis-
tant Inspector of Remounts in London from igth October 1887 to
I9th October 1892, and was placed on retired pay, 7th November 1900,
after upwards of thirty-eight years' service in the cavalry.
COLONEL JAMES DENNIS
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
OCTOBER 25, 1885.
James Dennis. James Dennis was born 1 3th August 1838; entered the army as
Cornet in the 5th Dragoon Guards, 5th March 1861, and became
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 505
Lieutenant in the 5th Lancers, I2th October 1868, having been trans- James Dennis,
ferred to that regiment on 24th March 1863. He became Captain,
3rd Dragoon Guards, roth June 1874, and exchanged to the I4th Hussars
on 3ist October 1874. He became Major, ist July 1881 ; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 25th October 1885; Colonel, 2$th October 1889. He was
Adjutant of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers from 25th June 1869 to
9th July 1871. He was present with the I4th Hussars in the Trans-
vaal campaign of the South African War, 1881. On I7th November
1886 he exchanged into the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) with
Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Hamilton (who came to the I4th Hussars),
and commanded the Carabiniers from 1887 to 1891. He went on
retired pay in 1891, after thirty years' service in the cavalry.
COLONEL HENRY BLACKBURNE HAMILTON
APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
NOVEMBER 17, 1886; COMMANDED THE REGIMENT, 1887-91.
Henry Blackburne Hamilton, eldest son of the late Rev. Henry Henry
Hamilton, M.A., of 17 Devonshire Place, London, formerly Ensign in Hamilton!6
the 85th (Duke of York's) Light Infantry,1 and afterwards Rector for
many years of Thomastown, County Kildare, Ireland, and his wife,
Frances Margaret, daughter of the late Ralph Peters, Esq., of Platbridge
House, Wigan, Lancashire, was born 3rd July 1841 ; educated at Con-
naught House, Brighton, Elstree Hill School, and Eton ; graduated
B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1864, M.A., 1868 ; entered the army
as Cornet in 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), 2ist July 1864; be-
came Lieutenant, I5th May 1866; Captain, 24th March 1869 ; Major,
ist July 1 88 1 ; Lieutenant- Colonel, I7th March 1886 ; and Brevet-
Colonel, I7th March 1890. He was Instructor of Musketry in the
Carabiniers from 1866 to 1869, and served with them in the Afghan
campaign of 1879-80, in the Khyber Division of the Cabul Field Force,
commanded by Lieutenant-General R. O. Bright, C.B.2
In Afghanistan, in March 1880, Captain Hamilton, as he then was,
commanded a detached troop of the Carabiniers with an expeditionary
force despatched against the Mohmunds into the Chardeh Valley, under
Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. Hodding;3 also in June 1880, a detached
1 Now the 2nd Battalion the King's (Shropshire) Light Infantry.
2 Afterwards General Sir Robert O. Bright, G.C.B.
3 Afterwards Brigadier-General G. C. Hodding, C.B.
506 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Henry squadron (no sabres) with the Lughman Valley expedition, com-
manded by Brigadier-General C. G. Arbuthnot, C.B.1
On 5th July 1880 he was present with his regiment in the successful
attack on and destruction of the villages of Nargozi, Arab Khel, and
Jokan by a mixed force commanded by Colonel Charles Acton of the
5 ist (King's Own) Light Infantry,2 when he led the ist squadron of
the Carabiniers which opened the attack.3 Received the Afghan War
medal and was mentioned in despatches, being also recommended for
a Brevet- Majority by his commanding officer (Colonel J. Fryer, C.B.).
Exchanged in November 1886, as Lieutenant-Colonel, with Lieu-
tenant-Colonel James Dennis, into the 1/j.th (King's) Hussars, and was
appointed to command that regiment ist July 1887. After retaining
the command for the usual period of four years, Colonel Hamilton
went on half-pay, ist July 1891, having been quartered with the
Fourteenth at Shorncliffe, Brighton, Aldershot, and Hounslow.
During his command he revised and published annually the
Regimental Almanack,4 and he introduced and published a book of
Regimental Standing Orders, none being then known in the regiment.
The ' Standing Orders ' introduced by Colonel Sir John Burgoyne,
Bart, who commanded the Fourteenth from 1773 to 1781, had entirely
disappeared, probably about the year 1792, and no traces of them
remained.5 In July 1896 Colonel Hamilton was placed on retired pay
after thirty-two years' service in the cavalry.
COLONEL THE HONOURABLE G. H. GOUGH, C.B.
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
JULY I, 1891.
The Hon. The Honourable George Hugh Gough, son of the second Viscount
G. H. Gough. Gcn^ was born 25th July 1852 ; educated at Eton and Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1872; and entered the army
as Cornet in the I4th (King's) Hussars, 28th October 1871. He
became Sub-Lieutenant, ist November 1871; Lieutenant, ante-dated,
28th October 1871 ; Adjutant, 23rd October 1875 ; Captain, 23rd July
1 Afterwards General Sir Charles G. Arbuthnot, G.C.B.
2 Now the ist Battalion (The King's Own) Yorkshire Light Infantry.
3 See Regimental Records of the bth Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers\ p. 66, by
Captain Alexander Sprot. Chatham : Gale and Polden. 1888.
4 See ante p. 431, Regimental Almanack.
5 See ante p. 50.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 507
1879; Brevet-Major, i8th November 1882; Major, I4th Hussars, The Hon.
1 6th December 1885; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, i$th June 1885 ; a H' Gough'
Brevet-Colonel, i6th December 1889; Lieutenant-Colonel, I4th Hussars,
ist July 1891 ; and Substantive Colonel, I3th July 1898.
He passed the final examination at the Staff College in 1883, and
held the following staff appointments : —
A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General commanding 2nd Division Expedi-
tionary Force in Egypt, 4th August 1882 to 2nd November 1882 ;
D.A.A. and Q.M.-General, Curragh Camp, ist July 1887 to 3Oth
September 1889; Private Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, January
1897 till October 1899, acting in the interval as Assistant Military
Secretary at the Horse Guards from July to September 1898. Colonel
Gough commanded the I4th (King's) Hussars from ist July 1891 to
June 1896, being stationed at Hounslow, Aldershot, Leeds, Manchester,
and Cahir. He served in the South African War of 1881 in the
Transvaal campaign as Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Sir Thomas
D. Baker, K.C.B., and afterwards to Major-General Sir H. E. Wood,
V.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B.; also in the Egyptian expedition of 1882 as
Aide-de-Camp to Lieutenant-General Sir E. B. Hamley, K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., commanding 2nd Division, and was at the battle of Tel-el-
Kebir (horse killed), mentioned in despatches, received the medal with
clasp, bronze star, brevet of Major, and fourth class of the Medjidie.
In the Soudan expedition, 1884 and 1885, on the Nile, he was in
command of the mounted infantry ; was present at the action of Abu
Klea (wounded), mentioned in despatches, and received two clasps and
brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. When H.M. Queen Victoria opened the
Manchester Ship Canal on 2 ist May 1894, tne r4th (King's) Hussars
and the 2nd (King's) Liverpool Regiment lined the route of the royal
procession through Manchester, on which occasion the whole of the
troops, including the volunteers, were under the command of Colonel
the Honourable G. H. Gough, and on the 26th of the same month he
was awarded the Companionship of the Bath (Military Division).
When the South African War broke out, Colonel Gough was
appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of the Cavalry Division in
October 1899, and proceeded to Cape Colony, where he served till
his much-lamented death, which occurred on the 28th March 1900
at Norval's Pont, to the inexpressible grief of his numerous friends
and brother officers, with whom he was most popular. He was buried
with full military honours on the 3Oth March, in the cemetery at
Bloemfontein, a squadron of his old regiment being present at the
ceremony. The Daily News correspondent at the seat of war states in
508 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
The Hon. a wire published on 2nd April in the Westminster Gazette, that ' Lord
G. H. Gougb. Roberts ancj other officers holding high command followed the remains
of Lord Wolseley's former private secretary to the grave. It was an
impressive sight as the procession moved solemnly through the streets
of Bloemfontein, the troops walking in a slow march, with arms
reversed, and bands playing the " Dead March." The coffin was covered
with the Union Jack and wreaths of flowers. At the cemetery the
trumpeters sounded the "Last Post" over the grave of the soldier
whom all comrades honour.'
The same journal also contains the following from a military
correspondent in South Africa : — ' Colonel the Honourable George
Gough — George, as he was affectionately known to all his intimates —
will be sincerely mourned by all who knew him. His friends were
legion. Few officers were able so quickly to gain the affection and
respect of all privileged to serve under him, and few officers will be
so missed and so regretted. The last time I saw him was, I think,
in 1895, when he won the open military point-to-point race in County
Meath, over a big country, riding against all the best men of the
Dublin garrison, and further handicapped by the fact that the country
was absolutely strange to him. I shall never forget seeing him canter-
ing home, bare-headed, some fifty lengths in front of the foremost of his
pursuers, his face radiant with delight at his victory. I think that no
officer in command of a regiment — and he was then in command of
the 1 4th Hussars — has ever before or since won this race. When men
come to command they are usually not so keen about racing over
a country. Not so George Gough : no day was too long and no
fence was too big for him. He was in every way the beau-ideal
of a light cavalry officer.'
A former colleague writes to the Army and Navy Gazette of 7th
April as follows : — ' I cannot tell you how shocked we all are to hear
the news of the death of Colonel the Honourable George H. Gough,
C.B. A truer-hearted and more upright and honourable gentleman,
a better soldier, and more courteous and industrious official, never
served on the staff at headquarters. To know him was to feel affec-
tion for him ; to be associated with him in office was to admire the
abilities which were hidden under that quiet yet manly exterior. He
was an officer who was capable of anything, for like most quiet men
he was blessed with wonderful powers of judgment, whilst his know-
ledge of the duties and requirements of his own arm of the service
was exceptional. In his death the army has indeed sustained a great
loss, and throughout the War Office he will be sincerely mourned.'
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 509
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL A. J. ENGLISH
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
JULY I, 1896.
Augustus John English was born 26th September 1851, and entered A. J. English,
the army as a Sub-Lieutenant, I4th (King's) Hussars, 3Oth December
1871. He became Lieutenant, 3Oth December 1873; Captain, i6th
January 1884; Major, I7th August 1887; and Lieutenant-Colonel,
1st July 1896.
He was extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Madras, I2th
June 1877 to nth November 1878, and again from nth January
to 24th May 1881 ; and Aide-de-Camp from 2nd June 1879 to 22nd
November 1880.
He retained the command of the Fourteenth till 2 1st February 1899,
when he was placed on retired pay after twenty-seven years' service.
During his command of the regiment he served at Cahir and New-
bridge. In 1 88 1 he was present with the Fourteenth in the Transvaal
campaign in South Africa.
COLONEL GILBERT H. C. HAMILTON
APPOINTED LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS,
FEBRUARY 22, 1899.
Gilbert Henry Claude Hamilton was born 3Oth July 1852, being Gilbert H. C.
eldest son of the late Lieutenant-General Henry Meade Hamilton, Hamilton-
C.B., and Henrietta, daughter of the late Rev. Sir Erasmus Dixon
Borrowes, Bart., of Barretstown Castle, County Kildare, Ireland.
He was appointed Sub-Lieutenant, I4th Hussars, ist September
1875 ; Lieutenant on same date ; Captain, 24th July 1885 ; Major, 23rd
August 1893 I Lieutenant-Colonel, 22nd February 1899; Colonel, 29th
November 1900 ; and he held the post of Adjutant, I4th Hussars, from
30th June 1885 till 3ist August 1887. Colonel Hamilton was A.D.C. to
Major-General, Madras, 28th September 1877 to 8th December 1888;
A.D.C. to Brigadier- General, Afghan campaign, nth January 187910
3rd June 1879, and from nth January 1880 to August 1880. He was
Adjutant to the Yorkshire Dragoons (Yeomanry), 22nd February 1888
to I7th April 1893, and he has commanded the I4th (King's) Hussars
since 22nd February 1899.
The following account of Colonel Hamilton appeared recently in
a number of the Navy and Army Illustrated newspaper : —
' Gilbert Hamilton holds a unique record, for he is the first
510 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Gilbert H, C cavalry officer in the army who has ever risen straight from the
ranks to command a cavalry regiment, and he deserves the position
he has won for himself, if ever a man did, for he has shown himself
an exceptionally fine soldier and officer. He joined the 2nd Life
Guards as a trooper at the age of seventeen and a half, and before
he was twenty-three he had won his commission, being appointed
to the regiment he now commands. His war services comprise the
Afghan War of 1879, in which he was, first, aide-de-camp to Sir Sam.
Browne, and afterwards galloper to the officer commanding the cavalry
brigade at Cabul, and also the Boer War of.iSSi. In all military
exercises Colonel Hamilton is facile princeps. He holds the record
score for shooting with the Martini- Henry carbine, and won twice
running the Inter-Regimental Revolver competition. So much for
his shooting powers. As a swordsman he competed seven times at
the Royal Military Tournament in the sword versus sword mounted
competition, and for six years out of the seven was either first or
second — in fact only on one occasion was he knocked out before
reaching the final.'
Gilbert Hamilton comes of a soldier stock. His father, the late
Lieutenant-General H. M. Hamilton, C.B., served in several campaigns.
One of his brothers, Bruce Meade Hamilton, late of the East Yorkshire
Regiment, is now Major-General Commanding 2ist Brigade in the war
in South Africa, and has already distinguished himself there in many
engagements. He is a Staff College man. Hubert, also a Staff College
man, is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, late Major in the Royal West
Surrey Regiment, and gained the ' Distinguished Service Order '
recently in the campaign in Egypt, when serving with the Egyptian
army. He also is at the front, and is Military Secretary to Lieutenant-
General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., Commanding-
in-Chief the Forces in South Africa ; whilst the youngest, Keith, is
serving in South Africa with his regiment the Oxfordshire Light
Infantry, in which he is a Captain. Father and sons together
have up to the present date earned twenty medals between them.
Colonel Gilbert Hamilton was mentioned in despatches and received
the medal for his services in the Afghan wars of 1878, 1879, and
1880, and he has been commanding the Fourteenth in the present
campaign in South Africa until 2ist November 1900, when he was
appointed Brigadier- General to command the 4th Brigade of Cavalry
in Lieutenant-General French's Cavalry Division. His portrait repre-
sents him wearing his active service dress (khaki) as he went to
South Africa.
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EXTRACTS FROM WAR OFFICE MS. ARMY LISTS
AT THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
1715
BRIGADIER DORMER'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Colonel .
Lieutenant- Colonel
Major .
Captains
Captain-Lieutenant
Lieutenants ,
Cornets .
Surgeon .
Chaplain
Cornet and Adjutant
James Dormer
Henry Killigrew
Solomon Rapin
Henry Pelham
William Boyle
Beverly Newcomin
James Stevens
Peter Davenport
Cuthbert Smith
Jonathan Pirke
James Fleming
Henry Lasalle .
Thomas Ellis .
Rigley Molyneux1
Edward Strode
Thomas Delahay
Andrew Forrester
Caleb Harbett .
Peter Pickering
William Hamilton
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. . . 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
(Ensign, 2ist November 1710)
. 22nd July 1715
. 22nd July 1715
1730
COLONEL NEVILL'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Colonel .
Lieutenant- Colonel
Major . . .
Captain ,
Captain- Lieutenant
Lieutenants .
Cornets .
Clement Nevill
Beverly Newcomin
Cuthbert Smith
Richard Bowles
Josias Patterson
John Watson .
Thomas Ellis .
William Hamilton .
Rigley Molyneux
Nathaniel Forth
William Ross .
James Baillie .
Peter Smith
David Liesly .
Henry Echlin .
1 Or ' Molineux.'
. 9th April 1720
. ist December 1720
. I2th February 1725
. 2nd May 1724
. 1 3th September 1721
. 28th October 1715
. 5th April 1720
. 25th August 1720
. 1 3th September 1 72 1
. ist January 1725
. 3rd June 1717
. 1 3th September 1701
. I4th April 1724
(Ensign, 4th November 1717)
. 5th May 1724
. . ist January 1725
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
1736
COLONEL NEVILL'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Colonel
Lieut.-Colonel
Major
Captains .
Capt. -Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Clement Nevill
Henry Desgrangues
Cuthbert Smith
James Norris
O'Brien M. Dilkes
Richard Bowles
Josiah Paterson
Alexander Knapton
William Hamilton
Lieutenants
Cornels
Nathaniel Forth
William Ross
Francis Bayley
Wroth Watson
James Baillie
Henry Echlin
John Maine
Trevor Smith
EXTRACT FROM AN OLD ARMY LIST
1740
FOURTEENTH, OR BRIGADIER HAMILTON'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
(Quartered in Ireland]
DATE OF
RANK.
NAMES OF OFFICERS.
PRESENT
DATE OF
COMMISSION.
FIRST COMMISSION.
Colonel .
Archibald Hamilton
2yth June 1737
Cornet, 1688
Lieut. -Col. .
William Wright
7th July 1737
Cornet, I2th Aug. 1712
Major .
Michael O'Brien Dilkes .
I3th Jan. 1737
Cornet, I2th Aug. 1712
Captains
R. Bowles
2nd May 1724
Cornet, I5th July 1719
James Norris .
1 2th Dec. 1833
Cornet, ist May 1705
James Clark .
I3th Jan. 1737
Cap.-Lieut. .
Josias Paterson
1 3th Sep. 1721
Lieut., 2 ist Dec. 1708
Lieutenants .
Thomas Ellis .
5th April 1720
Cornet, 3rd July 1711
William Hamilton .
25th August 1720
Cornet, 22nd July 1715
William Ross .
28th Feb. 1729
Cornet, 3rd June 1717
Alexander Knapton
3oth August 1733
Ensign, 24th April 1706
James Baillie .
2Qth June 1739
Cornet, I3th Sep. 1721
Cornets .
Peter Smith .
1 4th April 1722
Ensign, 4th Nov. 1717
John Maine
ist May 1734
Trevor Smith .
2nd August 1734
Arthur Forth .
2oth June 1739
George Nash .
22nd Nov. 1739
Henry Malone
22nd Nov. 1739
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
EXTRACTS FROM WAR OFFICE MS. ARMY LISTS AT
THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
1745
MAJOR-GENERAL HAMILTON'S REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Colonel
Lieut. -Colonel
Major
Captains
C apt. -Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Archibald Hamilton
William Wright
Cuthbert Smith
M. O'Brien Dilkes
Richard Bowles
James Norris
Josias Paterson
Thomas Ellis
William Hamilton
Lieutenants .
Cornets
Nathaniel Forth
William Ross
Alexander Knapton
James Baillie
Wroth Watson
Peter Smith
Henry Echlin
John Maine
Trevor Smith
1752
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE RIGHT HON. LORD TYRAWLEY'S REGIMENT
OF DRAGOONS
Colonel . Rt. Hon. Lord Tyrawley
Lieut.-Colonel . James Norris
Major
Captains
Capt.- Lieutenant
Lieutenants
James Bailie
Marcus Norman
John Pomeroy
John Arabin
Peter Smith
William Ross
John Maine
Trevor Smith
Arthur Forth
George Nash
Cornets . . Henry Malone
Andrew Jacob
Nicholas Cowse
James Bailie
Lewellin Nash
Thomas Goddard
Chaplain . . Peter Vatass
Adjutant . . Nicholas Cowse
(i8th May 1743 ; 3rd June 1752)
Surgeon . . Thomas Irving
(I7th August 1747)
2 K
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE OFFICERS WHO
SERVED IN THE i4TH DRAGOONS, A.D. 1715-54
(The names of the Officers of the Regiment at its formation, in 1715,
are printed in italics.)
NAME.
Arabin, John
Baillie, James, or
Bailie or Baily
Baillie, .
Baily, James, or
Bailie
Bartellot,
Bayly, .
Beauclerk,
Bentley,
Bettesworth, .
Blakeney, Grice .
Blennerhasset, D. .
Bowles, Richard .
Boyle, William
Brett, Barnaby
Brown, Robert
Chenevix, Daniel .
Clark, James.
Cowse, Nicholas .
Davenport, Peter .
Dejean, Louis
RANK AND DATES SO FAR i
AS CAN BE ASCERTAINED.
REMARKS.
Captain, serving in 1754
Lieut , 1739 ; Capt., 1746 ; Cornet, 1721
Major, 1 9th June 1751
Quartermaster, 1731
Cornet, 1747 ; Lieut., 1754
Chaplain, December 1729
Was serving, 1741
Cornet, 1725
Cornet, 1746 .
Quartermaster, 1717 (or
earlier)
Cornet, 1717 .
Cornet, 8th March 1747 .
Quartermaster, 1754
Capt., 1724; Maj., vice''. Wounded and greatly distinguished
Dilkes, I3th Mar. 1741- j at battle of Prestonpans, 2oth
Was serving, 1748
Died 1718 or 1719
Was serving, 1719
Commanded regiment, 1781-99
42
Captain, 22nd July 1715
Quartermaster, 1750
Cornet, 2oth June 1753
Lieutenant, 1755
Captain, 4th April 1754
Capt., vice Dilkes, 1737
Cornet, I2th Sept. 1745
Lieut., 22nd July 1715
Colonel, 27th Nov. 1752
September 1745
Major, 1716, vice Rapin ; Lieut. -
Col., 1717, vice Rapin
Became Captain, 8th March 1757
From Lieutenant, 3rd Horse
Was serving, 1748
Twice Adjutant ; retired on half-pay
as Cornet of Horse, Dec. 1755
Went in 1757 to 3rd Irish Horse,
now 6th Dragoon Guards (Cara-
biniers)
Delahaye, Thomas Cornet, 22nd July 1715
Desgrangues, Hy. Lieutenant-Colonel, 1731 \ Was in army up to 1752
Diggs, Thomas .'Maj., 1717 ; Brev. Lieut.-
Col. about June 1718
Dilkes, M. O'Brien I Capt. 1723; Maj., vice Was M.P. and got leave to attend
Smith, i4th Jan. 1737-8; Parliament, 1735-36; left regi-
ment in 1741-42
Dormer, James . Capt. and Col., 22nd July Went to 6th Foot, 1720; died
1715; Founder of the Lieutenant-General, 1742
Regiment
Echlin, Henry . Cornet, ist January 1725 I Was serving up to 1739
Ellis, Thomas . Cornet, 22nd July 1715 ; Was serving, 1740, as Lieutenant
Lieutenant, 1720
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
LIST OF OFFICERS WHO SERVED IN THE i4TH DRAGOONS, 1715-54
NAME.
Erie, Thomas
Fleming, James
Ford, John .
Forrester, Andrew
Forth, Arthur
Forth, Nathaniel .
Hamilton, Wm. .
Hamilton,
Hamilton, G.
Hamilton, Arch. ,
Hamilton, H.
Herbert,1
Irving, Thomas
Jacob, .
James, Richard
Killigrew, Henry
Knapton, Alex.
Lasalle, Henry
Leslie, — - .
Lidserfe,
Maine, John .
Maine, .
Malone, Henry
Medland,
Molyneux, Rigley
Monck, William
Morines, Peter
Nash, George
Nash, Llewellin
Neville,2 Clement
RANK AND DATES SO FAR
AS CAN BE ASCERTAINED.
Lieut.- Col., 4th Sept. 1754
Lieut., 22nd July 1715
Lieut., 1 5th March 1755 .
Cornet (junior), 22nd July
1715
Cornet, 2oth June 1739 .
Lieutenant, 1st Jan. 1725
Cornet, 22nd July 1715 ;
Lieut., 25th Aug. 1720 ;
Captain, 1746
Major, 1725-27
Major, 1749-50
Colonel, 27th June 1737 ;
Maj.-Gen., 1742
Quartermaster, 1724
Surgeon, 1733
Surgeon, I7th Aug. 1747
Surgeon, 1734
Quartermaster, 1753
Captain and Lieut. -Col.,
22nd July 1715
Lieutenant, 1733
Lieu-
tenant in army, 1707
Lieut., 22nd July 1715
Cornet, 1733
Quartermaster, 1740
Cornet, 1734 ; Lieutenant,
1746; Capt.-Lieut., 1754
Quartermaster, 1746
Cornet, 1739 .
REMARKS.
Left as Major-General, 1773
Was serving, 1718
Came from 4th Horse
Was serving, 1754
First commission, I5th Sept. 1719;
went to Neville's regiment, 1739
Was employed in England, 1724,
1726, and 1742, to bring over re-
cruit horses to the regiment in
Ireland ; was the first Adjutant of
Dormer's Dragoons, July 22, 1715
Died Lieut. -Gen., 8th July 1749
Left regiment about 1717
Was serving as Lieutenant, 1740;
first commission, 1706
Became Capt.-Lieut., 3rd June 1717
Serving in 1748
. jWas serving, 1740, as junior Cor-
net ; died 1753
Serving, 1734
Cornet, 1730 .
Cornet, 22nd July 1715 ;] Was serving, 1734
Lieut., 1725 (or earlier)!
Cornet, 1742
Capt, vice Boyle, 1717
Cornet, 1739 ; Lieut., 1754
Cornet, 1747; Lieut., 1757
Colonel, gth April 1720 .
Newcomin, Beverly Captain, 22nd July 1715
Norman,
Norris, —
Patterson,or Pater-
son, Josias
Captain, 1750
Captain, vice Pearce, 1733
or 1734; Major, 1746;
Lieut.-Col., 1749
Lieut, 1717 ; Capt.-Lieut.,
1731 ; Capt., v. Bowles,
1741-42 (i3th March)
From Lieut.-Col., I3th Dragoons,
he went to 8th Dragoons, 1737
Lieut.-Col., 1720 ; was serving in
1 730 (or later)
His first commission as Lieutenant
was dated 2ist December 1708
1 This may have been ' Caleb Harbet,' who was the first surgeon appointed to the I4th
Dragoons, July 22, 1715. The same names are often spelt in different ways in the old Army Lists.
2 Or Nevill.
516 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
LIST OF OFFICERS WHO SERVED IN THE I4TH DRAGOONS, 1715-54
NAME.
RANK AND DATES SO FAR
AS CAN BE ASCERTAINED.
REMARKS.
Pearce, Edward
Pelham, Henry
Pepper, Thomas
Pickering, Peter
Pirke, Jonathan
Pomeroy, John
Rapin, Samuel
Ross, William
Smith, Cuthbert .
Smith, John .
Smith, Peter .
Smith, Trevor
Smith, .
Stevens, Janus
Strode, Edward, or
Stroud
Thornborough, G. .
Tyrawley, James?
Lord
Vatass, Peter
Vernon, Edward .
Waldegrave, Chas.
Watson, Wroth .
Wright, William .
Wrighton,
Captain, 1724 .
Captain, 22nd July 1715
Cornet, Jan. 1755 5 Lieu-
tenant, 1756
Chaplain, 1717
Lieut, 22nd July 1715
Captain, 1750-52
Captain and Major, 22nd
July 1715 ; became
Lieut.-Col., 1716 or 1717
Cornet, 3rd June 1717 ;
Lieutenant, 1729
Lieut, 22nd July 1715 ;
Captain about 1720 ;
became Major, 1725
Cornet, I2th March 1754
Cornet, I4th April 1724;
Lieutenant, 1741-42
Cornet, 1734 .
Quartermaster, 1738
Capt - Lieut, 22nd July
1715 ; Captain, 1717
Cornet (senior), 22nd July
1715
Was appointed Adjutant,
6th June 1717
Lieut. - Gen., appointed
Colonel, 24th July 1749
Chaplain, 24th Dec. 1745
Lieut., 20th June 1753 ;
Captain, 1756
Quartermaster, 1725
Cornet, 2nd Jan. 1722
Lieutenant - Colonel, 7th
July 1737
Quartermaster, 1740-41
Became Sir E. Pearce, Bart., about
1732 ; died about 1734
Was serving, 1729
Was wounded in the King's ser-
vice, probably at Lancaster or
Preston, though not mentioned
by Cannon : got six months'
leave for his wounds in 1716;
left regiment, 1717
Was serving as Lieut, 1740; first
commission, Dec. 1716; retired,
half-pay, in Tyrawley's regiment,
2oth June 1753
Was serving, 1730
First commission, 1717
Serving in 1740 as Cornet
Serving in 1740
Lieutenant, 3rd June 1717
He was reduced to 2s. a day half-
pay, at age of twenty years
From Colonel of the loth Foot
Remained in the regiment till 1797,
and appears to have been on leave
the whole of his service. He was
seventy-five years of age on re-
tirement
He went with Lieut. Wm. Hamil-
ton, in 1725, to Great Britain, to
buy horses for the regiment in
Ireland
Was serving, 1739 ; first commis-
sion, 1720
Was serving in 1746; commanded
regiment at Prestonpans, 2Oth
September 1745
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
EXTRACTS FROM ARMY LISTS, A.D. 1754 TO 1901
I4TH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Stations (in 1754) — 3. Pbillipstown ; 3. Tullamore. (In 1755) — i. Navan ; 2. Ballyshannon ;
3. Belturbet. (In 1756)— Ireland.
1754
1755
'756
Colonel .
L. Dejean
Lewis Dejean
Lewis Dejean
Lt.- Colonel
T. Erie
Thomas Erie
Thomas Erie
Major
James Bailie
James Bailie
Marcus Norman
Captains .
Marcus Norman
Marcus Norman
John Arabin
J. Arabin
John Arabin
Daniel Chenevix
Daniel Chenevix
Daniel Chenevix
Edward Vernon
Capt.- Lieut.
John Mayne
John Mayne
John Mayne
Lieutenants
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith
Arthur Forth
Edward Vernon
Robert Brown
George Nash
James Bailie ,
John Ford
Edward Vernon
Robert Brown
Thomas Pepper
James Bailie
John Ford
Arthur Molesworth
Cornets .
Andrew Jacob
Andrew Jacob
Andrew Jacob
Nicholas Cowse
Nicholas Crowse
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Thomas Windh. God-
T. Wind. Goddard
Thomas Windh. God-
dard
R. Brown
dard
John Smith
J. Smith
John Smith
Robert Howard
Thomas Pepper
James O'Brien
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Surgeon .
T. Irwin
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Adjutant .
Nicholas Cowse
Philip Mercier
Philip Mercier
Quartermasters.
Hugh Hamilton
Hugh Hamilton
Hugh Hamilton
D. Blennerhasset
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Barnaby Brett
Barnaby Brett
Barnaby Brett
Joseph Laughee
Joseph Laughee
Joseph Laughee
P. Mercier
Philip Mercier
Philip Mercier
T. Paterson
Thomas Paterson
Thomas Paterson
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Station — Ireland. Uniform— Red ; facings, lemon yellow.
1757
1758 1759
Colonel . . Lewis Dejean
John Campbell John Campbell
Lt.- Colonel . Thomas Erie
Thomas Erie Thomas Erie
Major . . Marcus Norman
Marcus Norman Marcus Norman
Captains . . ' John Arabin
Daniel Chenevix Robert Brown
Daniel Chenevix
Robert Brown John Ford
Edward Vernon
John Ford
Thomas Pepper
Capt.- Lieut. . John Mayne
John Mayne
John Mayne
Lieutenants . Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith
Robert Brown
Thomas Pepper
Arthur Molesworth
|John Ford
Arthur Molesworth
Llewellin Nash
Thomas Pepper
Llewellin Nash
Robert Howard
Arthur Moles worth
R. Howard
Thomas Windh. God-
dard
Cornets .
Andrew Jacob
Andrew Jacob
John Smith
Llewellin Nash
Thomas Windh. God-
James O'Brien
Thomas Windh. God-
dard
Grice Blakeney
dard
John Smith
Philip Savage
John Smith
James O'Brien
Henry Butler
Robert Howard
Grice Blakeney
Thomas Patterson
James O'Brien
Philip Savage
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Surgeon .
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Adjutant .
Jeremiah Hurley
Jeremiah Hurley Jeremiah Hurley
Quartermasters Hugh Hamilton
Arthur Ormsby
Barnaby Brett
Joseph Laughee
Philip Mercier
Thomas Paterson
Agent
Mr. Geo. Cockburn,
Mr. Geo. Cockburn,
Dublin
Dublin
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
i4TH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Station — Ireland. Uniform — Red ; facings, lemon.
1760
1761
1762
Colonel .
John Campbell, Maj.-
John Campbell, Maj.-
John, Marquis of
Gen.
Gen.
Lome, Maj.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel . Thomas Erie
Thomas Erie
Thomas Erie
Major
John Forde
John Forde
John Forde
Captains .
Robert Brown
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Arthur Molesworth
Arthur Molesworth
Arthur Molesworth
Robert Howard
Robert Howard
Capt.-Lieut.
John Mayne
John Mayne
John Mayne
Lieutenants
Trevor Smith
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Thos. W. Goddard
Thos. W. Goddard
Robert Howard
James O'Brien
Grice Blakeney
Thos. W. Goddard
Grice Blakeney
Philip Savage
James O'Brien
Philip Savage
Henry Butler
Cornets . . John Smith
John Smith
John Smith
Grice Blakeney
Henry Butler
Thomas Patterson
Philip Savage
Thomas Patterson
Richard O'Brien
Henry Butler
Edward O'Brien
John Uniacke
Thomas Patterson
John Uniacke
i Edward O'Brien
John Head
Chaplain . . Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant . . Jeremiah Hurley
Jeremiah Hurley
Jeremiah Hurley
Surgeon . . Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Agent . .Mr. George Cock-
Mr. George Cock-
Mr. George Cock-
burn, Dublin
burn, Dublin
burn, Dublin
1763
1764
1765
Colonel .
John, Marquis of
John, Marquis of
John, Marquis of
Lome, Maj.-Gen.
Lome, Maj.-Gen.
Lome, Maj.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thomas Erie, Col.
Major
John Forde
Arthur Molesworth Arthur Molesworth
Captains .
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper Thomas Pepper
Arthur Molesworth
Robert Howard Robert Howard
Robert Howard
Henry Butler Henry Butler
Capt.- Lieut.
John Mayne
John Mayne
John Mayne
Lieutenants
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Llewellin Nash
Thos. W. Goddard
Thos. W. Goddard | Thos. W. Goddard
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney Grice Blakeney
Philip Savage
John Head
Glynne
Henry Butler
Glynne William Owen
Cornets .
John Smith
Thomas Patterson Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
William Owen
Robt. Thos. Hearn
John Uniacke
Robt. Thos. Hearn
Matthew Jacob
John Head
Matthew Jacob Edward Smith
James Butler
Edward Smith i Simon Pepper
William Owen
Simon Pepper
Parsons
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
Jeremiah Hurley
Jeremiah Hurley
Jeremiah Hurley
Surgeon .
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving ; Thomas Irving
Agent . . I
Mr. George Cock-
Mr. George Cock- Mr. George Cock-
burn, Dublin
burn, Dublin
burn, Dublin
520
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Station — Ireland. Uniform — Red ; facings, lemon.
1766
1767
1768
Colonel .
Charles Fitzroy
Charles Fitzroy
Charles Fitzroy
Lt.-Colonel
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thomas Erie, Col.
Major
Arthur Molesworth
John Maine
John Maine
Captains .
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Robert Howard
Robert Howard
Robert Howard
Henry Butler
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Capt.-Lieut.
John Mayne
John Mayne
John Mayne
Lieutenants
Llewellin Nash
Thos. W. Goddard
Thos. W. Goddard
Thos. W. Goddard J. Conway Glynne
J. Conway Glynne
Grice Blakeney ! William Owen
William Owen
Glynne
Robt. Thos. Hearn
Robt. Thos. Hearn
William Owen Edward Smith
Edward Smith
Cornets .
Thomas Patterson Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Robt. Thos. Hearn
Simon Pepper
Simon Pepper
Matthew Jacob ' Wentworth Parsons
Wentworth Parsons
Edward Smith
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Simon Pepper
John Slack
John Slack
Parsons Oliver de Lancey
Oliver de Lancey
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
Jeremiah Hurley Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Surgeon .
Thomas Irving Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Agent
Mr. George Cock-
Wm. Montgomery,
Wm. Montgomery,
burn, Dublin Dublin
Dublin
Station — Ireland. Uniform — Red ; facings, lemon ; white, red, and green-striped lace.
1769
1770
1771
Colonel
Charles Fitzroy
Charles Fitzroy
Charles Fitzroy
Lt.-Colonel
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thomas Erie, Col.
Thos. Erie, Maj.-Gen.
Major
John Maine (John Maine
John Maine
Captains .
Thomas Pepper | Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
| Robert Howard
Robert Howard
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney 1 Grice Blakeney
Simon Pepper
Capt.-Lieut.
John Mayne
Thos. W. Goddard
Thos. W. Goddard
Lieutenants
Thos. W. Goddard
William Owen
Thomas Patterson
William Owen
Robt. Thos. Hearn
Arthur Ormsby
Robt. Thos. Hearn
Thomas Patterson
Wentworth Parsons
Thomas Patterson
Arthur Ormsby
Oliver de Lancey
Arthur Ormsby Simon Pepper
Eyre Power French
Cornets .
Simon Pepper
Wentworth Parsons
John Slack
Wentworth Parsons
John Slack
Josias Paterson
John Slack
Oliver de Lancey
John Browne
Oliver de Lancey
Eyre Power French
Otway Toler
Eyre Power French
Josias Paterson
Benjamin Smith
Josias Paterson
John Browne
Hon. Joseph Dawson
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Surgeon .
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving j Thomas Irving
Agent
Wm. Montgomery,
Wm. Montgomery,
Wm. Montgomery,
Dublin
Dublin
Dublin
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
521
I4TH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS
Station — Ireland. Uniform — Red ; facings, lemon ; white, red, and green-striped lace.
1772
1773
1774
Colonel .
Charles Fitzroy
Daniel Webb, Lieut. -
George Warde
Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Thomas Erie, Maj.-
Thomas Erie, Maj.-
John Burgoyne
Gen.
Gen.
Major
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Thomas Pepper
Captains . . \ Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
i Simon
Pepper
Simon Pepper
Simon Pepper
Wentworth Parsons
Wentworth Parsons
Wentworth Parsons
Cap/.- Lieut.
T. Wyndh. Goddard
T. Wyndh. Goddard
T. Wyndh. Goddard
Lieutenants
Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Arthur Ormsby
Oliver de Lancey
Oliver de Lancey
Eyre Power French
Eyre Powei French
Eyre Power French
Josias Paterson
Josias Paterson
Josias Paterson
John Browne
Cornets .
John Browne
John Browne
Otway Toler
Otway
Toler
Otway Toler
Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith
Hon. Joseph Dawson
Hon. Joseph Dawson
Hon. Joseph Dawson
George Ross Lewin
George
Ross Lewin
George Ross Lewin
Samuel Faulkner
Samuel Faulkner
Samuel Faulkner
Hon. J. Cunninghame
Chaplain . . Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant . . Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Thomas Patterson
Surgeon . . ; Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Thomas Irving
Agent
Wm. Montgomery,
Wm. Montgomery,
Wm. Montgomery,
Dublin
Dublin
Dublin
1775
1776
Colonel.
George Warde George Warde
Lieut.- Colonel
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne
Major ....
Thomas Pepper
Grice Blakeney
Captains
Grice Blakeney
Simon Pepper
Simon Pepper
Wentworth Parsons
Wentworth Parsons
Henry Pigot
Captain-Lieutenant
T. Wyndham
Goddard
T. Wyndham Goddard
Lieutenants .
Thomas Patterson
Eyre Power French
Eyre Power French
Josias Paterson
Josias Paterson
John Browne
John Browne
Otway Toler
Otway Toler
Benjamin Smith
Cornets
Benjamin Smith
George Ross Lewin
George Ross Lewin
Samuel Faulkner
Samuel Faulkner
Hon. J. Cunninghame
Hon. J. Cunninghame
George Warde
George Warde
John Blakeney
John Blakeney
Chas. Stanley Monck
Chaplain, .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant
Thomas Paterson
Thomas Paterson
Surgeon
George Borthwick
George Borthwick
Agent ....
Sir W. Montgomery, Bart.,
Sir W. Montgomery, Bart.,
Dublin
Dublin
522
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — Ireland. Uniform—Red ; facings, lemon ; white, red, and green-striped lace.
1777
1778 1779
Colonel
George Warde G. Warde, Maj.-Gen. i R. Sloper, Maj.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne, Col.
John Burgoyne, Col.
Major
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Captains .
Simon Pepper
Henry Pigot
Henry Pigot
Henry Pigot
John Gordon
John Gordon
John Gordon
Otway Toler
Otway Toler
Cap.-Lieut. and
Captain ,
Otway Toler
Hon.J. Cunninghame
Hon. J. Cunninghame
Lieutenants
Josias Paterson John Browne
John Browne
\ John Browne Samuel Faulkner
Samuel Faulkner
Benjamin Smith George Warde
Nich. Power French
Samuel Faulkner
Nich. Power French
Chas. Stanley Monck
Hon.J. Cunninghame Chas. Stanley Monck
Robert Riddell
Cornets .
George Ross Lewin
Hon. Ed. Warde
Henry Bambrick
George Warde
Henry Bambrick
George Garward
John Blakeney
George Harward
Richard Galway
Chas. Stanley Monck
Richard Gal way
Hugh H. Magan
Hon. Ed. Warde
Hugh H. Magan
Francis Blasse
James Dalrymple
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
James Wilson
James Wilson
James Wilson
Surgeon .
George Borthwick
George Borthwick
George Borthwick
Agent
Sir W. Montgomery,
Sir W. Montgomery,
Bart., Dublin
Bart., Dublin
1780 1781
1782
Colonel .
R. Sloper, Maj.-Gen. JR. Sloper, Maj.-Gen.
R. Sloper, Maj.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
John Burgoyne, Col. SirJ.Burgoyne,Bt.,C.
Grice Blakeney
Major
Grice Blakeney G. Blakeney, Lt.-Col.
Andrew Corbet
Captains .
Henry Pigot
Otway Toler
Chas. Stanley Monck
John Gordon
Chas. Stanley Monck
Sir J. Erskin'e, Bart.
Otway Toler
Hugh H. Magan
Cap.-Lieut. and
Captain
Hon.J. Cunninghame
Hon.J. Cunninghame
Robert Compton
Lieutenants
John Browne
Samuel Faulkner
George Dunbar
Samuel Faulkner Robert Compton
Francis Blasse
Nich. Power French
Hugh H. Magan
Robert Wallace
Robert Riddell
George Dunbar
John King
Robert Compton Francis Blasse
Richard Maginnis
Cornets
Henry Bambrick F. C. Musgrave
Alexander Crawford
Richard Galway Robert Wallace
Joseph Keighley
Hugh H. Magan jjohn King
John Gamble
Francis Blasse
Alexander Crawford
James Leatham
James Dalrymple
Joseph Kighley
John Hubert Moore
F. C. Musgrave
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
James Wilson John Magee I John Magee
Surgeon .
George Borthwick George Borthwick
George Borthwick
Agents
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
523
I4TH REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station (1783-84)— Ireland. Uniform (1783-84)— Red ; facings, lemon yellow ; white,
red, and green-striped lace ; (from 1785) blue ; facings, lemon yellow.
1783
1784
1785
Colonel .
R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen.
R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen. j R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney [Grice Blakeney
Major
Andrew Corbet
William Richardson ! William Richardson
Captains .
Chas. Stanley Monck
Chas. Stanley Monck Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Sir Jas. Erskine, Bt.
Hugh H. Magan
Hugh Tuite
Hugh H. Magan
Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Lewis Saurin
Cap. -Lieut, and
Captain
Robert Compton
Robert Compton
Robert Compton
Lieutenants
Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Robert Wallace
John King
Robert Wallace
John King
Richard Maginnis
John King
Richard Maginnis
Alexander Crawford
Richard Maginnis
Alexander Crawford
James Leatham
Alexander Crawford
James Leatham
Edward Dunn
Cornets .
Joseph Keighley
Joseph Keighley
Joseph Keighley
John Gamble
John Gamble
Avarell Lecky
James Leatham
John Hubert Moore
Charles Norman
John Hubert Moore
Avarell Lecky Hon. Ab. Creighton
Avarell Lecky
Charles Norman ' William Connell
Charles Norman
John Whaley
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
John Magee
John Magee John Magee
Surgeon .
George Borthwick
George Borthwick George Borthwick
Agents
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert Stephen and Robert
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin Wybrants, Dublin
1786
1787
1788
Colonel .
R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen.
R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen.
R. Sloper, Lt.-Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Major
William Richardson
Arthur Carter
Arthur Carter
Captains ,
Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Sir Geo. Dunbar, Bt.
Hugh Tuite
Hugh Tuite
Hugh Tuite
Lewis Saurin
George Montgomery
George Montgomery
Cap. -Lieut, and
Captain
Robert Compton
Robert Compton
Robert Compton
Lieutenants
Richard Maginnis
James Leatham
James Leatham
Alexander Crawford
John Enery
John Enery
James Leatham
Charles Norman
Hon. Ab. Creighton
Avarell Lecky
Hon. Ab. Creighton
David Mellefonl
John Enery
David Mellefont
John Thos. Buller
Cornets .
Charles Norman
William Connell
William Connell
Hon. Ab. Creighto;!
Dennis Bingham
Dennis Bingham
William Connell
William Gore
William Gore
John Whaley
Anthony Lynch
Anthony Lynch
Denis Bingham
Rich. Thos. Nugent
Rich. Thos. Nugent
Lorenzo Moore
Lorenzo Moore
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
John Magee
John Magee
John Magee
Surgeon . ' .
George Borthwick
George Borthwick
George Borthwick
Agents
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
524
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, lemon yellow.
1789
1790
1791
Colonel .
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Lieut.-Gen.
Lieut.-Gen.
Lieut.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney
Grice Blakeney, Col.
Major . •
Arthur Carter
Arthur Carter
Arthur Carter
Captains .
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.
Hugh Tuite
Hugh Tuite
Hugh Tuite
G. Montgomery, Bt.
G. Montgomery, Bt.
David Mellefont
Cap.-Lieut. and
Captain
Robert Compton
Patrick Miller
John Kindillon
Lieutenants
James Leatham
James Leatham
James Leatham
John Enery John Enery
William Tomkins
Hon. Ab. Creighton David Mellefont
Samuel Stapleton
David Mellefont
William Tomkins
John Browne
Samuel Stapleton
J. B. Wandesford
Cornets .
William Connell William Connell
William Connell
William Gore Lorenzo Moore
Lorenzo Moore
Anthony Lynch J. B. Wandesford
Ed. Gerald Butler
Lorenzo Moore Ed. Gerald Butler
Geo. Allen Madden
Henry Dod j Geo. Allen Madden
James Butler
Rich. Isaac Starke
David Thos. Powell
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
John Magee
James Leatham James Leatham
Surgeon .
George Borthwick
George Borthwick George Borthwick
Agents
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert Stephen and Robert
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
1792
1793
1794
Colonel .
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Robert Sloper, K.B.,
Lieut.-Gen.
Lieut.-Gen.
Lieut.-Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Grice Blakeney, Col. ; Grice Blakeney, Col.
Grice Blakeney, Col.
Major
Arthur Carter
Arthur Carter
Arthur Carter
Captains .
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.
Sir G. Dunbar
Hugh Tuite
Hon.J.B.Wandesford
Hon.J.B.Wandesford
David Mellefont
Mungo Noble
Mungo Noble
Cap.-Lieut. and
Captain
John Kindillon
John Kindillon
John Kindillon
Lieutenants . | James Leatham
James Leatham
James Leatham
John Browne
John Browne
John Browne
John B. Wandesford | Thos. David Powell
Thos. David Powell
Stephen Mahon
Hon. James Butler
Hon. James Butler
Robert Christmas
Robert Christmas
Cornets .
William Connell
Dennis Pack
Dennis Pack
Ed. Gerald Butler
William Cane
John George Onge
James Butler
John George Onge
William Pigott
David Thos. Powell
William Pigott
Poitier
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
James Leatham
James Leatham
James Leatham
Surgeon .
John Craven
John Craven
John Craven
Agents
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert
Stephen and Robert
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
Wybrants, Dublin
THE
(KING'S) HUSSARS
REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, lemon yellow.
525
1795
1796
1797
1798
Colonel
Robt. Sloper, K.B.,
Robt. Sloper, K.B.,
Robt. Sloper, K.B.,
John W. Egerton,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Gen.
Maj.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
Grice Blakeney,
Grice Blakeney,
Grice Blakeney,
Grice Blakeney,
Maj.-Gen.
Maj.-Gen.
Maj.-Gen.
Maj.-Gen.
Major
Arthur Carter, Lt.-
Arthur Carter, Lt-
Arthur Carter, Lt.-
Arthur Carter, Lt.-
Col.
Col.
Col.
Col.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bt.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bt.
Sir G. Dunbar, Bt.
Captains .
Sir G. Dunbar, Bt.,
John Kindillon
Hon. James Butler
Hon. James Butler
Maj., March 1794
Hon. James Butler
Hamilton Gorges
Hamilton Gorges
Hon. J.B. Wandes-
Hamilton Gorges
Henry Browne
Henry Browne
ford
Henry Browne
G. H. Montgomery
William Nowlan
Hon. James Butler
G. H. Montgomery
James Leatham
Henry Shepherd
Hamilton Gorges
James Kearnay
William Nowlan
Neil Talbot
Henry Browne
G. H. Montgomery
Cap.- Lieut.
and Cap.
John Kindillon
James Leatham
John George Onge
James Tyrrell
Lieuts.
James Leatham
James Tyrrell
James Tyrrell
John Craven
John Browne
John Craven
John Craven
Poitier
Thomas D. Powell
Dennis Peck
Poitier
John Trump Potts
Robert Christmas
Poitier
John Trump Potts
Jas. Edward White
John George Onge
John Trump Potts
Jas. Edward White
Pat.NugentSavage
James Tyrrell
Jas. Edward White
John Hall
John Lombard
John Hall
Pat.NugentSavage
Edward Turton
John Lombard
Oliver M'Causland
John Deane
Charles S. Sloper
Edward Fitzgerald
John Chapman
Edward Turton
Nixon Brown
Oliver M'Causland
W. F. Leatham
Thos.Dean Pearce
Cornets
Dennis Pack
Edward Turton
W. F. Leatham | James Flanagan
William Pigott
Oliver M'Causland
H. Arnott
Lawrence Drought
Poitier
W. F. Leatham
Charles S. Sloper
Norman Newby
Jas. Edward White
H. Arnott
Large
T. Armstrong
John Sidwell
Charles S. Sloper
James Flanagan
Peter Keogh
Lodge
Large
Thomas Payter
John Craven
John Mahoney
Chaplain .
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Peter Vatass
Adjutant .
James Leatham
Lawrence Drought
Laurence Drought
Lawrence Drought
Surgeon .
John Craven
Hugh Arnot
Hugh Arnott
Ruxton
Assistant
f
Samuel Newman
Surgeons
I
Henry Killaly
Agents
S.andR.Wybrants,
S.andR.Wybrants,
Messrs. Sloper and
Messrs. Sloper and
Dublin
Dublin
Allen, Gray'slnn
Allen, Gray's Inn
526
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
1799 1800 1801
Colonel
John Wm. Egerton, John Wm. Egerton, John Wm. Egerton,
Maj.-Gen. Maj.-Gen. Maj.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
Grice Blakeney,Maj.-
Grice Blakeney,Maj.- Grice Blakeney, Maj.-
Gen.
Gen. Gen.
John Michel
John Michel
Samuel Hawker
Major
Arthur Carter, Col.
T. O'Brien O'Loghlin
T. O'Brien O'Loghlin
Sir G. Dunbar, Bart.,
Hon. James Butler
Hon. James Butler
Lt.-Col.
Captains .
Hon. James Butler
Henry Browne
Henry Browne
Henry Browne
William Nolan
Neil Talbot
William Nolan
Neil Talbot
Richard Pigot
Neil Talbot
Richard Pigot
Thomas Smith
Richard Pigot
Thomas Smith
William Savary
Thomas Smith
Pat. Nugent Savage
Thos. Deane Pearce
Frederick Villebois
Cap.- Lieut, and
Captain
James Tyrrell
William O'Bryen
Pat. Nugent Savage
Lieutenants
Jas. Ed. White
John Lombard
Edward Turton
Pat. Nugent Savage
Edward Turton
Oliver M'Causland
John Lombard
Oliver M'Causland
Chas. Stokes Sloper
Edward Turton Chas. Stokes Sloper
John Chapman
Oliver M'Causland
John Chapman
Nixon Brown
Chas. Stokes Sloper
Nixon Brown
Ed. John Nugent
John Chapman
Thos. Deane Pearce
D. John Mahoney
Nixon Brown
James Flanagan
Edwin Saville
Thos. Dean Pearce
Ed. John Nugent
James Lowry
James Flanagan
D. John Mahoney
Matthew L. Bell
Ed. John Nugent
Elrington Laing
Peter Keogh
D. John Mahoney
Edwin Saville
Samuel Dick
Elrington Laing
James Lowry
S. Neville Bull
»
John Cox, Kt.
George Humphrey
Cornets .
Lawrence Drought
Lawrence Drought
Cecil Bisshopp
Norman Newby Peter Keogh
Hon. Chas. Butler
Peter Keogh
George Collier
T. Campbell
James Lowry
Matthew Bell
Matthew Kemble
William Cooper
Samuel Dick
Strethill Harrison
Edwin Saville
Paymaster
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
Adjutant .
Lawrence Drought
Lawrence Drought
George Humphrey
Surgeon .
John Kidston
John Kidston
John Kidston
A sst.- Surgeon .
Henry Killaly
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Vet.-Surgeon .
Samuel Newman
Samuel Newman
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Lisle St., Leicester
Lisle St., Leicester
Lisle St., Leicester
Square
Square
Square
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
52?
I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform— Blue ; facings, orange. Badge— Prussian Eagle.
1802 1803
1804
Colonel .
John Wm. Egerton, John Wm. Egerton,
John, Earl of Bridge-
Maj.-Gen. Lt.-Gen.
water, Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
Grice Blakeney, Lt.- John Michel, Col.
Samuel Hawker
Gen.
John Michel
Samuel Hawker
Major
Henry Browne
Henry Browne
Henry Browne
James Gambier
Neil Talbot
Neil Talbot
Captains .
Neil Talbot
Richard Pigot
Richard Pigot, Maj.
Richard Pigot
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith
William Savary
Ed. Vincent Eyre
Wm. Savary, Lt.-Col.
Thos. Deane Pearse
Samuel Dick
Thos. Deane Pearse
Samuel Dick
Hon. Chas. Butler
Frederick Villebois
Frederick Villebois
Chas. Auriol, Maj.
John Chapman
Charles S. Sloper
F. B. Hervey
Cap. -Lieut, and
Captain
Ed. Vincent Eyre
Ed. Vincent Eyre
Lieutenants . John Chapman
John Chapman
Nixon Browne
Nixon Browne
Nixon Browne
D. John Mahoney
E. John Nugent
D. John Mahoney
Peter Keogh
D. John Mahoney
James Lowry
George Humphrey
James Lowry
Peter Keogh
Cecil Bishopp
Matthew L. Bell
George Humphrey
Strethill Harrison
Peter Keogh
Cecil Bisshopp
Christ. Reddington
Samuel Dick
Hon. Chas. Butler
Peter Hawker
George Humphrey
Strethill Harrison
Cecil Bishopp
Hon. Chas. Butler
Cornets .
T. Campbell
T. Campbell
T. Campbell
Matthew Kemble
Christ. Reddington
William Gaven
Strethill Harrison
William Gaven
Charles Silvertop
Christ. Reddington
Geo. Aug. Fenwick
John Babington
Aid. Richardson
Charles Silvertop
Valentine Knightly
William Gaven
John Babington
Robert Knipe
T. Henry Skinner
Daniel Capel
Paymaster
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
Adjutant .
George Humphrey
John Babington
J. Babington, Cornet
Surgeon .
John Kidston
John Kidston
John Kidston
Asst.-Surgeons
Samuel Young
J. Hopkins Radford
George Garrett
Samuel Riviere
Charles Waite
Vet. -Surgeon .
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Park Place, St.
Park Place, St.
Park Place, St.
James's
James's
James's
528
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
1805
1806
1807
Colontl .
John, Earl of Bridge-
John, Earl of Bridge-
John Wnx, Earl of
water, Lt.-Gen.
water, Lt.-Gen.
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
Samuel Hawker
Samuel Hawker
Samuel Hawker
Neil Talbot
Neil Talbot
Majors
Neil Talbot
Richard Pigot
Thomas Smith
Richard Pigot
Thomas Smith
F. B. Hervey
Captains .
Thomas Smith Edwd. Vincent Eyre Edwd. Vincent Eyre
Ed. Vincent Eyre i Hon. Charles Butler Hon. Charles Butler
Hon. Charles Butler Frederick Villebois \ John Chapman
Frederick Villebois John Chapman \ D. John Mahony
John Chapman
F. B. Hervey Chas. Massey Baker
F. B. Hervey
D. John Mahony George Humphrey
D. John Mahony
Chas. Massey Baker Peter Hawker
Chas. Massey Baker
George Humphrey i Peter Keogh
George Humphrey
Peter Hawker
Charles Silvertop
Peter Hawker
Peter Keogh
Henry Morritt
Lieutenants
Nixon Browne
Cecil Bishopp
Cecil Bishopp
Peter Keogh
Strethill Harrison
Strethill Harrison
Cecil Bishopp
T. Campbell
T. Campbell
Strethill Harrison
Charles Silvertop
John Babington
Christ. Reddington
John Babington
Valentine Knightley
T. Campbell
Valentine Knightley
Robert Knipe
George R. Purdon
Robert Knipe
Daniel Capel
Charles Silvertop
T. Henry Skinner
Joseph Dowson
John Babington
Daniel Capel
James Agnew
Valentine Knightley
Joseph Dowson
Thos. Potter Milles
Charles Farquhar
James Humfrey
Thompson
George Stevenson
James Agnew
Evelyn P. Dormer
Thomas Potter Milles
Hon. Henry Neville
James Humfrey
John Townsend
George Stevenson
Benjamin Shotten
Evelyn P. Dormer
Charles Eyre
Hon. Henry Neville
David Watts
Cornets
Robert Knipe
Benjamin Shotten
Charles Read
T. Henry Skinner
John Townsend
William Nourse
Daniel Capel
Charles Eyre
Charles Knatchbull
Thos. Potter Milles
David Watts
Houston Wallace
James Humphrey Charles Read
John Gwynne
George Stevenson Augustus Atkins Lovell Ben. Badcock
Hon. J. Ger. de R. de i William Nourse lohn Ponton
Ginkel
Charles Knatchbull 1 Theophilus T. Ellis
Frederick Holbrooke
Houston Wallace Thomas Smith
Hon. Henry Neville
John Gwynne
William Wainman
Benjamin Shotten
Paymaster
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
Adjutant .
Benjamin Shotten Benjamin Shotten Benjamin Shotten
Surgeon . . John Kidston
John Kidston
John Kidston
Asst.- Surgeons
George Garrett
Widmer
Widmer
Matthew Spry
Matthew Spry
Vet.-Surgeon .
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Park PL.StJames's Park PI., St. James's
ParkPl.,St.James's
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
529
I.J.TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
Colonel .
Lt,-Colonels
Majors
Captains .
Lieutenants
Cornets
Paymaster
Adjutant .
Surgeons .
A sst. - Surgeons
Vet.- Surgeon
Agents
1808
1809
1810
John W., Earl of
John W., Earl of
John W., Earl of
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Bridgewater, Lt.- Bridgewater, Lt.-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Samuel Hawker
Samuel Hawker, Col.,
Samuel Hawker, Col.,
A.D.C.
A.D.C.
Neil Talbot
Neil Talbot
Neil Talbot
F. B. Hervey
F. B. Hervey
F. B. Hervey
Hon. Charles Butler
Hon. Charles Butler
Hon. Charles Butler
John Chapman
John Chapman
John Chapman
D. John Mahony
D. John Mahony
D. John Mahony
Charles M. Baker
Charles M. Baker
Charles M. Baker
Peter Hawker
Peter Hawker
Peter Hawker
Peter Keogh
Peter Keogh
Peter Keogh
Valentine Knightley
Valentine Knightley
Valentine Knightley
Hon. Henry Neville
Hon. Henry Neville
Hon. Henry Neville
Thos. W. Brotherton
Thos. W. Brotherton
Thos. W. Brotherton
Thomas P. Milles
Thomas P. Milles
Thomas P. Milles
Patrick Stirling
Patrick Stirling
Patrick Stirling
Cecil Bishopp
T. Campbell
T. Campbell
T. Campbell
John Babington
John Babington
John Babington
Robert Knipe
Robert Knipe
Robert Knipe
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
Evelyn P. Dormer
Evelyn P. Dormer
Evelyn P. Dormer
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Charles Reade
Charles Reade
Charles Eyre
John Hill Forster
John Hill Forster
David Watts j Houston Wallace
Houston Wallace
Charles Reade
John Gwynne
John Gwynne
John Hill Forster
Lovell B. Badcock
Lovell B. Badcock
William Nourse
Theophilus T. Ellis
Theophilus T. Ellis
Charles Knatchbull
William Wainman
William Wainman
Houston Wallace
Phillips
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith
Augustus Foster
Augustus Foster
James Hay
Samuel Hay
Thomas Clifton
Thomas Clifton
William Jones
William Jones
Theobald Shiel
John Gwynne
Hon. A. Southwell
Hon. A. Southwell
Lovell B. Bad cock
William J. Pearson
William J. Pearson
John Ponton
E. B. Impey
John Blackford
Theophilus T. Ellis I. W. E. 'Brydges
I. W. E. Brydges
Thomas Smith
Hon. G. Fortescue
William Wainman
Francis G. Keogh
Augustus Foster
Edward Pellew
Paul C. Parris
James Flanegan James Flanegan
James Flanegan
Benjamin Shotten Benjamin Shotten Benjamin Shotten
John Kidston John Ennis
John Ennis
Widmer Widmer
Widmer
Matthew Spry Matthew Spry
Wm. M'Gillivray
Robert Thompson Robert Thompson Robert Thompson
Mr. Collyer and Son, Mr. Collyer and Son, , Mr. Collyer and Son.
Park Pl.,St.James's Park Pl.,St.Jamos's 1 Park Pl.,St.James's
2 L
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I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
1811
1812
1813
Colonel .
John Wm., Earl of
John W., Earl of
John W., Earl of
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
Samuel Hawker, Col.,
Samuel Hawker, M.-
Samuel Hawker, M.-
A.D.C.
Gen.
Gen.
F. B. Hervey
F. B. Hervey
F. B. Hervey
Majors
Hon. Charles Butler
Hon. Charles Butler
Chas. Massey Baker
John Chapman
John Chapman
Thos. W. Brotherton
Captains .
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Peter Hawker
Peter Hawker
Peter Hawker
Thos. Potter Milles
Thos. W. Brotherton
Thos. W. Brotherton
John Babington
Thomas Potter Milles
Thos. Peter Milles
Daniel Capel
John Babington
John Babington
Hon. Henry Percy
Robert Knipe
Daniel Capel
Francis Anderson
Daniel Capel
Hon. Henry Percy
Joseph Dowson
Hon. Henry Percy
Francis Anderson
John Townsend
Francis Anderson
Joseph Dowson
Lovell B. Badcock
Joseph Dowson
John Townsend
William Wainman
Lieutenants
Evelyn P. Dormer
Evelyn P. Dormer
Evelyn P. Dormer
John Townsend
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
John Hill Forster
John Gwynne
John Hill Forster
John Gwynne
Augustus Foster
John Gwynne
Lovell B. Badcock
William Jones
Lovell B. Badcock
Theophilus T. Ellis
Hon. Arth. Southwell
Theophilus T. Ellis
William Wainman
John Blackford
William Wainman
Augustus Foster
J. W. E. Brydges
Augustus Foster
James Hay
Edward Pellew
James Hay
Thomas Clifton
Francis Fowke
Thomas Clifton
William Jones
Charles Ward
William Jones
Theobald Shiel
Hon. Edward Cust
Theobald Shiel
Hon. Arth. Southwell
Francis Hall
Hon. Arth. Southwell
John Blackford
Archibald Douglas
John Blackford
J. W. E. Brydges
James Clavering
J. W. E. Brydges
Edward Pellew
William Rich. Ellis
Hon. Geo. Fortescue
Francis Fowke
G. Newman Caswell
Francis G. Keogh
Charles Ward
Henry White
Edward Pellew
Hon. Edward Cust
John Gourlay
Francis Fowke
Francis Hall
John Harvey Thursby
Charles Ward
William Percy
T. P. Thompson
Cornets .
Francis Hall
John Gourlay
Chas. G. Humphreys
William Percy
James Clavering
Francis Wm. Taylor
John Gourtay
William Rich. Ellis
William John Lyon
James Clavering
G. Newman Caswell
Daniel James Webb
Wm. Richard Ellis
John Harvey Thursby
G. Newman Caswell
Henry White
John H. Thursday
Chas. G. Humphreys
Francis Wm. Taylor
Alex. Mackintosh
Paymaster
James Flanegan
James Flanegan
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Quartermaster .
Jameson
Jameson
M'Carthy
Surgeon .
James Taylor
Christopher Widmer
Arthur Richardson
A sst.- Surgeons
Widmer
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
George Gardner
Thomas M. Perrott
Vet.- Surgeon .
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
ParkPl.,St.James's
ParkPl.,St.James's
Park Pl.,St.James's
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange ; (from 1815) silver lace. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
Distinction (1816) — ' Peninsula.'
1814
1815
1816
Colonel .
John W., Earl of
John W., Earl of
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
Bridgewater, Lt.-
Bridgewater, Gen.
water, Gen.
Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
S. Hawker, M.-Gen.
S. Hawker, M.-Gen.
S. Hawker, M.-Gen.
F. B. Hervey
F. B. Hervey, Col.
F. B. Hervey, Col.
Majors
Chas. Massey Baker
C. M. Baker, Lt.-Col.
C. M. Baker, Lt.-Col.
Thos. W. Brotherton
Thos. Wm. Brother-
Thomas W. Brother-
ton, Lt.-Col.
ton, Lt.-Col.
Captains .
Thos. Potter Milles
T. P. Milles, Major
T. P. Milles, Major
John Babington
John Babington
John Babington
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Hon. Henry Percy
Hon. H. Percy, Major
Hon.H.Percy,L.-Col.
Francis Anderson
Francis Anderson
Francis Anderson
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Lovell B. Badcock
Lovell B. Badcock
Lovell B. Badcock
William Wainman
William Wainman
William Wainman
Augustus Foster
Augustus Foster
Augustus Foster
Lieutenants
Evelyn P. Dormer
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
Benjamin Shotten
William Jones
William Jones
William Jones
J. W. E. Brydges
J. W. E. Brydges
Hon. Arth. Southwell
Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke
John Blackford
Charles Ward
Charles Ward
J. W. E. Brydges
Francis Hall
Francis Hall
Edward Pellew
Archibald Douglas
James Clavering
Francis Fowke
James Clavering
John Harvey Thursby
Charles Ward
John Harvey Thursby
C. Card. Humphreys
Hon. Edward Cust
Chas. G. Humphreys
Francis Wm. Taylor
Francis Hall
Francis Wm. Taylor
James Bennett
Archibald Douglas
James Bennett
James Blake
fames Clavering
James Blake
Charles M'Carthey
William Rich. Ellis
Charles M'Carthey
George Hutchinson
John Gourlay
George Hutchinson
Hon. Charles Petre
John Harvey Thursby
Hon. Charles Petre
St. John Charlton
T. P. Thompson
St. John Charlton
Stephen Simpson
Chas. G. Humphreys
Charles Wyndham
G. Goodwin Barrett
Francis Wm. Taylor
Thos. Molyneux
Robert C. Hammont!
Wm. John Lyon
Stephen Simpson
William Wilton
James Bennett
Cornets .
Daniel Jas. Webb
Robt. C. Hammond
Constant E. Trent
Charles M'Carthey
David Brown
Francis O. Trent
William Wilton
John Thomas Brooks
Constant E. Trent
Peter Hammond
Francis O. Trent
Edward Lane Parry
John St. Leger
Harrison W. Sober
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe ; Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Benjamin Shotten
Charles M'Carthey Charles M Carthey
Quartermaster
Henry Smith
Henry Smith Henry Smith
Surgeon .
Arthur Richardson
Arthur Richardson Arthur Richardson
A ssf. - Surgeons
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush Elijah Bush
Daniel Owen Davis
Daniel Owen Davis Daniel Owen Davis
Vet. -Surgeon .
Robert Thompson
Black Alexander Black
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
ParkPl.,St.James's
Park Pl.,St.James's
Park Pl.,St.James's
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I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange ; silver lace. Badge — The Prussian Eagle.
Distinction— ' Peninsula.'
1817
1818
1819
Colonel .
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
water, Gen.
water, Gen.
water, Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
F. B. Hervey, Col.
F. B. Hervey, Col.
Sir Felt. B. Hervey,
Bart., Col.
Majors
Chas. Massey Baker,
Chas. Massey Baker,
Chas. Massey Baker,
Lt.-Col.
Lt.-Col.
Lt.-Col.
Thos. Wm. Brother-
Thos. Wm. Brother-
Thos. Wm. Brother-
ton, Lt.-Col.
ton, Lt.-Col.
ton, Lt-Col.
Captains .
Thos. P. Milles, Maj.
Thos. Potter Milles
Thos. Potter Milles
John Babington
John Babington
John Babington
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Daniel Capel
Hon. Henry Percy,
Hon. Henry Percy,
Hon. Henry Percy,
Lt-Col.
Lt.-Col.
Lt.-Col.
Francis Anderson
Francis Anderson
Francis Anderson
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
Joseph Dowson
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Lovell B. Badcock
Lovell B. Badcock
Lovell B. Badcock
Lieutenants
Benjamin Shotten
William Jones
William Jones
William Jones
Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke
Francis Fowke
Charles Ward
Charles Ward
Charles Ward
James Clavering
James Clavering
Francis Hall
John H. Thursby
C. M'Carthey, Adj.
James Clavering
C. M'Carthey, Adj.
Hon. Charles Petre
John H. Thursby
Hon. Charles Petre St. John Charlton
C. Card. Humphreys
St. John Charltoa
Robt. C. Hammond
C. M'Carthey, Adj.
Robt. C Hammond
William Wilton
Hon. Charles Petre
William Wilton
William Beckwith
St. John Charlton
William Beckwith
Cornets
Constant E. Trent
Constant E. Trent
Constant E. Trent
Francis O. Trent
Francis O. Trent
Edward Lane Parry
Peter Hammond
Peter Hammond
John St. Leger
Edward Lane Parry
Edward Lane Perry
Harrison W. Sober
John St. Leger
John St. Leger
Wm. T. Carruthers
Harrison W. Sober
Harrison W. Sober
John Whitla
Henry Gage
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Quartermaster .
Henry Smith
Henry Smith
Henry Smith
Surgeon .
Daniel O'Flaherty
Daniel O'Flaherty
Daniel O'Flaherty
Asst.- Surgeons
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Daniel Owen Davis
Daniel Owen Davis
Daniel Owen Davis
Vet. -Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black Alexander Black
Agents . . Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son, i Mr. Collyer and Son,
Park PL, St. James's
Park PL, St. James's: Park PL, St. James's
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533
I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue; facings, orange ; silver lace. Badge — Prussian Eagle. Distinction — 'Peninsula.
Additional distinctions from 1821 — 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,
'Orthes.'
1820
1821
1822
Colonel .
J. W., Earl of Bridge-
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
J. W., Earl of Bridge-
water, Gen.
water, Gen.
water, Gen.
U-Colonel
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Major
Thos. Wm. Brother-
Thos. Potter Milles
Thos. Potter Milles
ton, Lieut.-Col.
Hon. Henry Percy,
John Townsend
Thos. Potter Milles
Lieut.-Col.
Captains .
John Babington,Maj.
John Babington,Maj.
John Babington,Maj.
Hon. Henry Percy,
John Townsend, Maj.
Lovell Ben. Badcock,
Lieut.-Col.
Lovell B. Badcock
Major
Francis Anderson
William Jones
William Jones
Joseph Dowson
Charles Ward
Charles Ward
John Townsend
Hon. Charles Petre
Hon. Charles Petre
Lovell B. Badcock,
Geo. Goodin Barrett
Geo. Goodin Barrett
Major
St. John Charlton
William Jones
Francis Fowke
Lieutenants
Charles Ward
Chas.M'Carthey.Adj.
Chas.M'Carthey,Adj.
Chas.M'Carthey,Adj.
William Beckwith
William Beckwith
Hon. Charles Petre
Edward Lane Parry
Edward Lane Parry
St. John Charlton
John St. Leger
John St. Leger
Rob. Carr Hammond
John Wm. Gage
John Wm. Gage
William Beckwith
Edward H. Foster
Henry Gage
James Ormsby
Harrison W. Sober
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Edward Lane Parry
Henry Gage
John St. Leger
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Cornets
Harrison W. Sober
J. Williams Willes
J. Williams Willes
Wm. T. Carruthers
Win. James D'Urban
Wm. James D'Urban
Henry Gage
Keith Alex. Jackson
Sir Keith Alex. Jack-
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Thos. Rich. Baker
son, Bart.
J. Williams Willes
Christ. Musgrave
Thos. Rich. Baker
Wm. James D'Urban
John W. S. Smith
Christ. Musgrave
Keith Alex. Jackson
T. D. E. Burroughs
John W. S. Smith
Thos. Rich. Baker
Horatio Ross
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Quartermaster .
Henry Smith
John Houghton
John Houghton
Surgeon .
Daniel O'Flaherty
Daniel O'Flaherty
Daniel O'Flaherty
Asst.- Surgeon .
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Vet.-Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Park Place, St.
Park Place, St.
Park Place, St.
James's
James's
James's
534
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue; facings, orange ; silver lace. Badge — Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — 'Peninsula,
'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes.1
1823
1824
1825
Colonel .
J.W., Earl of Bridge-
Sir John Ormsby
Sir John Ormsby
water, Gen.
Vandeleur, K.C.B.,
Vandeleur, K.C.B.,
Lieut.-Gen.
Lieut.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Majors
Thos. Potter Milles
Thos. Potter Milles
Thos. Potter Milles
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Captains .
Lovell Ben. Badcock,
Lovell Ben. Badcock,
William Beckwith
Major
Major
Edward Lane Parry
William Jones
William Beckwith
John Sam. St. Leger
Charles Ward
Edward Lane Parry
John Wm. Gage
Geo. Goodin Barrett
Sir Thomas Ormsby,
Henry Gage
William Beckwith
Bart.
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Edward Lane Parry
Hon. George Anson
John Sam. St. Leger
Lieutenants
Chas.M'Carthey,Adj.
Charles M'Carthey,
Charles M'Carthey,
John St. Leger
Adjutant
Adjutant
John Wm. Gage
John Wm. Gage
Joshua S. Smith
Henry Gage
Henry Gage
Ambrose Congreve
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Ed. Sherlock Gooch
Thos. Rich. Baker
J. Williams Willes
J. Williams Willes
Christ. Musgrave
Sir Keith A. Jackson,
Josh. Simmons Smith
J. Woolmore Sim.
Bart.
Ambrose Congreve
Smith
Cornets
Wm. James D' Urban
Thos. Rich. Baker
Rich. Thos. Gilpin
Thos. Rich. Baker
Christ. Musgrave
John Griffis, Riding-
Christ. Musgrave
John W. Simmons
master
John W. S. Smith
Smith
Adam Gordon Duff
Horatio Ross
John Griffis, Riding-
George Rooke
John Griffis, Riding-
master
William Maxwell
master
Rich. Thos. Gilpin
Charles Delme
Rich. Thos. Gilpin
Adam Gordon Duff
Jas. Massey Dawson
George Rooke
John Kennedy
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Charles M'Carthey
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Quartermaster .
John Houghton
John Houghton
John Houghton
Surgeon .
Daniel O'Flaherty
Daniel O'Flaherty
Thomas Forster
Asst.- Surgeon .
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Elijah Bush
Vet.- Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Agents
Mr. Collyer and Son,
Messrs. Greenwood,
Messrs Greenwood,
Park Place, St!
Cox, and Hammers-
Cox, and Hammers-
James's
ley
ley
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I4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform— Blue; facings, orange ; silver lace. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
Distinctions— 'Talavera,' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' ' Orthes,' 'Peninsula.'
1826
1827
1828
Colonel .
Sir J. O. Vandeleur,
K.C.B., Lt.-Gen.
Sir J. O. Vandeleur,
K.C.B., Lt.-Col.
Sir J. O. Vandeleur,
K.C.B., Lt.-Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Chas. Massey Baker
Majors
Thos. Potter Milles
John Townsend
Thos. Potter Milles
John Townsend
Thos. Potter Milles
John Townsend
Captains .
William Beckwith
Edward Lane Parry
John William Gage
Henry Gage
Edward S. Gooch
John Methold
William Beckwith
Edward Lane Parry
John William Gage
Edward S. Gooch
John Methold
Charles M'Carthey
William Beckwith
Edward Lane Parry
John William Gage
John Methold
Charles M'Carthey
Joshua S. Smith
Lieutenants
C. M'Carthey, Adj.
Joshua S. Smith
Ambrose Congreve
Thos. Richard Baker
J. Woolmore Sim.
Smith
Joshua S. Smith
Ambrose Congreve
J. Woolmore Sim.
Smith
John Griffis, Riding-
master
Ambrose Congreve
J. Woolmore Sim.
Smith
John Griffis, Riding-
master
William Maxwell
Adam Gordon Duff
William Maxwell
Charles Delme
George Rooke
Charles Delme
Jas. Massey Dawson
Jas. Massey Dawson
John Kennedy
Cornets .
John Griffis, Riding-
master
John Kennedy
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Charles Abbott
William Maxwell
Wm. B. Alexander
Edward Tenison
Charles Delme
Jas. Massey Dawson
John Kennedy
Charles Barton
Charles Abbott
Edward Tenison
Chas. John Griffiths
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Chas. John Griffiths
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Henry Evans
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant
Chas. M'Carthey, Lt.
Patrick Leary, Cor.
Patrick Leary
Quartermaster .
John Houghton
John Houghton
John Houghton
Surgeon .
Thomas Foster
Thomas Foster
Thomas Foster
Asst.- Surgeon .
Elijah Bush
Chas. Clarke Hughes,
M.D.
Chas. Clarke Hughes,
M.D.
Vet.- Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Agents
Messrs. Greenwood,
Cox, and Ham-
mersley
Messrs. Greenwood,
Cox, and Ham-
mersley
Messrs. Greenwood,
Cox, and Ham-
mersley
536
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i4TH (DUCHESS OF YORK'S OWN) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, orange ; silver lace. Badge — Prussian Eagle.
Distinctions — 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,' 'Peninsula.'
Colonel .
Lieut. -Colonel
Majors .
Captains .
Lieutenants
Cornets .
1829
Paymaster
Adjutant
Quartermaster
Surgeon .
Assistant- Surgeon .
Veterinary- Surgeon
Agents .
Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur,
K.C.B., Lt.-Gen.
Charles Massey Baker
John Townsend
William Beckwith
i
Edward Lane Parry
John William Gage
John Methold
Charles M'Carthey
Joshua Simmons Smith
J. Woolmore Sim. Smith
Ambrose Congreve
John Griffis, Riding-master
William Maxwell
Charles Delme
James Massey Dowson
John Kennedy
Charles Barton
Charles Abbott
Edward Tenison
Charles John Griffiths
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Henry Evans
Edward Stanley Curwen
Samuel Rofe
Patrick Leary
John Houghton
Patrick Henry Lavens
Joseph Huey
Alexander Black
Messrs. Greenwood, Cox,
ana Hammersley
1830
Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur,
K.C.B., Lt.-Gen.
John Townsend
William Beckwith
Edward Lane Parry
John William Gage
Joshua Simmonds Smith
J. Woolmore Sim. Smith
Ambrose Congreve
Charles Delme
Christopher Musgrave
John Griffis, Riding-master
William Maxwell
James Massey Dawson
John Kennedy
Charles Barton
Charles Abbott
Edward Tenison
Charles John Griffiths
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Edward Stanley Curwen
Henry Van Straubenzee
Henry Bowyer
James Hodson
Samuel Rofe
Patrick Leary
John Houghton
Patrick Henry Lavens
Joseph Huey
Alexander Black
Messrs. Greenwood, Cox,
and Hammersley
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform (1831) — Blue; facings, orange; silver lace; (from 1832), scarlet; facings, blue; gold lace.
Badges — Prussian Eagle, (and from 1832) the King's Crest. Distinctions — ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes
d'Onor,' Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,' 'Peninsula.'
1831
1832
1833
Colonel .
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt., K.C.B., Maj-
Bt., G.C.H., Maj.-
Bt., G.C.H., Maj.-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Majors .
William Beckwith
Wm Beckwith, K.H.
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.
Edward Lane Parry
Edward Lane Parry
Edward Lane Parry
Captains .
John Wm. Gage
John Wm. Gage
John Wm. Gage
Joshua S. Smith
Joshua S. Smith
Joshua S. Smith
J. Woolmore Sim.
J. Woolmore Sim.
J. Woolmore Sim.
Smith
Smith
Smith
Ambrose Congreve
Ambrose Congreve
Ambrose Congreve
Charles Delme
Charles Delink
Charles Delme
Christ. Musgrave
Christ. Musgrave
James M. Dawson
Lieutenants
John Griffis, Riding-
John Griffis, Riding-
John Griffis, Riding-
master
master
master
Jas. Massey Dawson
James M. Dawson
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Hon. Charles Abbott
Hon. Charles Abbott
Hon. Charles Abbott
Edward Tenison
Edward Tenison
Edward Tenison
Patrick Leary
Chas. John Griffiths
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Francis H. Stephens
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Edward S. Curwen
Charles Thornhill
Edward S. Curwen
Henry Bowyer
James Phelps
Cornets
Henry V. Straubenzee
James Hodson
Edmund Royds
Henry Bowyer
Robt. Alex. Lockhart
Arthur Surtees
James Hodson
Charles Thornhill
Hon. B. C. Yelverton
Robt. Alex. Lockhart
James Phelps
John Henderson
Charles Thornhill
Edmund Royds
William H. Archer
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe.
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
Quartermaster .
John Hough ton
John Houghton
John Houghton
Surgeon .
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Asst.-Surgeon .
Joseph Huey
Joseph Huey
Joseph Huey
Vet.-Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander lilack
Alexander Black
Agents
Messrs. Greenwood,
Messrs. Greenwood,
Messrs. Greenwood,
Cox and Co.
Cox and Co.
Cox and Co.
538
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform — Scarlet ; facings, blue ; gold lace. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian Eagle.
Distinctions — 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor," 'Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' ' Orthes,' ' Peninsula.'
1834 | 1835
1836
Colonel .
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt., G.C.H., Maj.-
Bt., G.C.H., Maj.-
Bt., G.C.H., Maj.-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Major
Edward Lane Parry
Edward Lane Parry
J. Woolmore S. Smith
Captains .
J. Woolmore Sim.
J. Woolmore Sim.
Jas. Massey Dawson
Smith
Smith
Charles Barton
Charles Delmfc
Charles Delme
Edward Harvey
James M. Dawson
James M. Dawson
Edward Tenison
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Francis H. Stephens
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
John Griffis
Edward Tenison
Edward Tenison
Lieutenants
John Griffis, Riding-
John Griffis, Riding-
Patrick Leary, Adj.
master
master
Charles Thornhill
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Patrick Leary, Adj.
James Phelps
Francis H. Stephens
Francis H. Stephens
Edmund Royds
Charles Thornhill
Charles Thornhill
Hon. B. C. Yelverton
James Phelps
James Phelps
John Henderson
Edmund Royds
Edmund Royds
Wm. Henry Archer
Hon. B. C. Yelverton
Hon. B. C. Yelverton
John Henderson
John Henderson
Cornets
William H. Archer
Win. Henry Archer
Lawrence C. Bayntum
Charles Jones
Charles Jones
John B. Culpeper
LawrenceC.Bayntum Lawrence C.Bayntum
Henry Ed. Doherty
John B. Culpeper
John B. Culpeper
C. Edmond Doherty
Henry E. Doherty
Henry Ed. Doherty
Isaac Cornock
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
Quartermaster .
John Houghton
John Houghton
John Houghton
Surgeon .
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Asst.- Surgeon .
Joseph Huey
Joseph Huey
Joseph Huey
Vet.- Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
Agents
Messrs. Greenwood,
Messrs. Greenwood,
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Cox and Co.
Cox and Co.
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Uniform— Scarlet ; facings, blue ; gold lace. Badges— The King's Crest and Prussian Eagle. Dis-
tinctions— 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria/ ' Orthes,' 'Peninsula.'
Additional distinction in 1838 — 'Douro.'
1837
1838
1839
Colonel .
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt., G.C.H., Lt.-
Bt., G.C.H., Lt.-
Bt., G.C.H., Lt-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend
Major
J. Woolmore S. Smith
J. Woolmore S. Smith
Charles Barton
Captains .
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
Francis H. Stephens
Francis H. Stephens
Francis H. Stephens
James Phelps
Charles Thornhill
James Phelps
John Henderson
James Phelps
Edmund Royds
Wm. Henry Archer
Edmund Royds
John Henderson
John B. Culpeper
Lieutenants
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Patrick Leary, Adj.
Henry Ed. Doherty
Hon. B. C. Yelverton
Wm. Henry Aicker
C. Edmond Doherty
John Henderson
John B. Culpeper
Geo. Main Fullerton
Wm. Henry Archer
Henry Ed. Doherty
Isaac Cornock
John B. Culpeper
C. Edmond Doherty
John Henry Tonge
Henry Ed. Doherty
Geo. Main Fullerton
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
C. Edmond Doherty
Isaac Cornock
Riding-master
Cornets .
Isaac Cornock
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Andrew Robertson
Chas. Tindal Griffis
Riding-master
Arch. Robt. Miller
William Bodkin
William Bodkin
William Faber
John Henry Tonge
John Henry Tonge
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Andrew Robertson
Andrew Robertson
William Clarke, Adj.
Archibald R. Miller
Arch. Robt. Miller
Chas. H. J. Rich
William Faber
Henry R. Boucherett
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Patrick Leary
Patrick Leary
William Clarke
Quartermaster .
John Houghton
William Clarke
Samuel Brodribb
Surgeon .
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Asst.-Surgeon .
Joseph Huey
Joseph Huey, M.D.
Jas. Wemyss Moffat
Vet. -Surgeon .
Alexander Black
Alexander Black
James Geo. Philips
Agents ,
Messrs. Cox and
Messrs. Cox and
Messrs. Cox and
Co.
Co.
Co.
540
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station— {in 1841) India. Uniform— Scarlet ; facings, blue; gold lace. Badges— The King's Crest
and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,'
' Vittoria,' ' Orthes,' ' Peninsula.'
' I
1840
1841
1842
Colonel .
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt, G.C.H., Lt.-
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt., G.C.H., K.C.B.,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonels .
John Townsend
John Townsend
John Townsend, Col.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Major
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Charles Barton
Ed. Harvey, LL-Col.
Captains .
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
Francis H. Stephens
Francis H. Stephens
Francis H. Stephens
Wm. Henry Archer
John Henderson
Wm. Henry Archer
Henry Ed. Doherty
Wm. Henry Archer
Henry Ed. Doherty
George Weston
John B. Culpeper
George Weston
Geo. Main Fullerton
Henry Ed. Doherty
Geo. Main Fullerton
Charles Stewart
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Arch. Ed. Bromwich
John Henry Tonge
Lieutenants
C. Edmond Doherty
John Henry Tonge
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Geo. Main Fullerton
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Riding-master
Isaac Cornock
Riding-master
Geo. K. M. Dawson
John Henry Tonge
Arch. Robt Miller
William Clarke, Adj.
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Geo. K. M. Dawson
John H. Goddard
Riding-master
William Clarke, Adj.
James Boalth
Arch. Robt. Miller
Robert H. S. Barry
James Chambre
John H. Goddard
Frederick Holder
Arthur Scudamore
Richard H. Gall
John F. FitzGerald
John A. Todd
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Henry F. Hodson
Chas. W. Thompson
Thomas W. Smith
John Hamilton Gray
Sydney L. Horton
Charles Morant
George E. Hillier
Cornets
William Faber
Wm. Warner Allen
Joseph Cuff Barrett
Geo. K. M. Dawson
J. W. M. G. Hughes
William Nettleship
William Clarke, Adj.
Charles Morant
Francis D. Gray
Robert H. S. Barry
Rd. H. S. Barry
Chas. Potts Rosser
John H. Goddard
Joseph Cuff Barrett
Win. Edward Buller
Wm. Warner Allen
William Nettleship
Richard P. Apthorp
J. W. M. G. Hughes
James Coster
Robert J. Brown
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
William Clarke
William Clarke
William Clarke
Quartermaster .
Samuel Brodribb
Samuel Brodribb
Samuel Brodribb
Surgeon .
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
Patrick H. Lavens
A sst.- Surgeons
Jas. Wemyss Moffat
Jas. Wemyss Moffat
J. Wemyss Moffat
E. W. Stone. M.D.
Vet.-Surgeon
James Geo. Philips
James Geo. Philips
James Geo. Philips
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue ; facings, scarlet. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' ' Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' ' Ortbes.'
' Peninsula. '
1843
1844
1845
Colonel
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt., G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Bt., G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
John Townsend, Col.
John Townsend, Col.
John Townsend, Col.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Majors
Ed. Harvey, Lt.-Col.
Edward Harvey
Ed. Harvey, Lt.-Coi.
Francis H. Stephens
Charles P. Ainslie
Chas. Philip Ainslie
Captains .
Wm. Henry Archer
Wm. Henry Archer
Wm. Henry Archer
Henry Ed. Doherty
Henry Ed. Doherty
Henry Ed. Doherty
George Weston
George Weston
George Weston
Charles Stewart
Charles Steuart
Charles Steuart
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Arch. E. Bromwich
Arch. E. Bromwich
Arch. E. Bromwich
John Henry Tonge
John Henry Tonge
John Henry Tonge
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Geo. K. M. Dawson
William Clarke
William Clarke
William Clarke
Lieutenants
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Riding-master
Riding-master
Riding-master
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
James Boalth
James Boalth
James Boalth
James Chambre
James Chambre
James Chambre
Frederick Holder
Frederick Holder
Frederick Holder
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Richard H. Gall
Richard Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
John F. FitzGerald
John F. FitzGerald
John F. FitzGerald
John A. Todd
John Augustus Todd
John Augustus Todd
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Henry F. Hodson
Henry Fred. Hodson
Henry Fred. Hodson
Chas. W. Thompson
Chas. W. Thompson
Chas. W. Thompson
Thomas W. Smith
Thomas Wm. Smith
Thomas Wm. Smith
John H. Gray
John Hamilton Gray
Charles Morant
Sydney L. Horton
Sydney L. Horton
George E. Hillier
Charles Morant
Charles Morant
Joseph Cuffe Barrett
George E. Hillier
George E. Hillier
William Nettleship
Joseph Cuffe Barrett
Joseph Cuffe Barrett
Balcarres W. Ramsay
William Nettleship
William Nettleship
Francis Delaval Gray
Cornets
Francis D. Gray
Francis Delaval Gray
Chas. Potts Rosser
Charles P. Rosser
Chas. Potts Rosser
Wm. Edward Buller
Wm. Edward Buller
Wm. Edward Buller
R. P. Apthorp, Adj.
Rd. P. Apthorp
R. P. Apthorp, Adj.
James Coster
James Coster
James Coster
R. Johnston Brown
Robert J. Brown
R. Johnston Brown
William McMahon
F. J. G. Whitehead
William McMahon
William Greenham
William McMahon
William Greenham
Geo. Anthony Foster
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Rd. P. Apthorp
Rich. P. Apthorp
Rich. P. Apthorp
Quartermaster .
Samuel Brodribb
Samuel Brodribb
Samuel Brodribb
Surgeon .
Jas. Wemyss Moflfat
Robt. Dunkin Smyth
Robt. Dunkin Smyth
A sst.- Surgeons
E. W. Stone, M.D.
Ed. W. Stone, M.D.
Ed. W. Stone, M.D.
A. S. Thomson, M.D.
A. S. Thomson, M.D.
A. S.Thomson, M.D.
Vet.-Sitrgeon .
James Geo. Philips
James Geo. Philips
James Geo. Philips
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
542
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue ; facings, scarlet. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — 'Douro,' 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,'
1 Peninsula. '
1846
1847
1848
Colonel
Sir Edward Kerrison.
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Wm. Havelock, K.H.
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
Edward Harvey
Majors
Chas. Philip Ainslie
Chas. Philip Ainslie
John Wallace King
Wm. Henry Archer
John Wallace King
Henry Ed. Doherty
Captains . .
Henry Ed. Doherty
Henry Ed. Doherty
Charles Steuart
George Weston
George Weston
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Charles Steuart
Charles Steuart
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Geo. Gardine Shaw
Geo. Gardine Shaw
William Clarke
Arch. E. Bromwich
Arch. Ed. Bromwich
John H. Goddard
John Henry Tonge
John Henry Tonge
William Wilmer
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Geo. K. M. Dawson
Arthur Scudamore
William Clarke
William Clarke
Wm. A. Gaussen
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
Rich. Herbert Gall
Lieutenants
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
Chas. Tindal Griffis,
James Chambre
Riding-master
Riding-master
John F. FitzGerald
James Chambre
James Chambre
John Augustus Todd
Frederick Holder
Frederick Holder
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Chas. W. Thompson
Rich. Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
William Nettleship
John F. FitzGerald
John F. FitzGerald
R. Johnston Brown
John Augustus Todd
John Augustus Todd
Rd. P. Apthorp, Adj.
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
William McMahon
Henry Fred. Hodson
Chas. W. Thompson
Robt. T. Woodman
Chas. W. Thompson
Chas. Morant
Arthur Need
Thomas Wm. Smith
George E. Hillier
William English
Charles Morant
Joseph Cuffe Barrett
Jas. W. Bennett
George E. Hillier
William Nettleship
John Theodore Ling
Joseph Cuffe Barrett
B. D. W. Ramsay
Taylor L. Maynel
William Nettleship
James Coster
Herbert Edwards
B. D. W. Ramsay
R. Johnston Brown
Thomas Barrett
Francis Delaval Gray
William McMahon
Henry E. Reader
James Coster
William Greenham
Ambrose Lloyd
R. Johnston Brown
Cornets
Chas. Potts Rosser
Wm. Edward Buller
Samuel K. Ibbetson
Wm. Edward Buller
Rich. P. Apthorp 1 Augustus J. Cureton
R. P. Apthorp, Adj.
Robt. T. Woodman William D. Boyd
William McMahon
William English
Hon. Rich. Walter
William Greenham
Jas. W. Bennett
Chetwynd
Geo. Anthony Foster
John Cornes William Spilling
Robt. T. Woodman
Herbert Edwards jWm. D'Urban Blyth
William English
Thomas Barrett ; Stanley O. Black
Ambrose Lloyd John Dudgeon
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Samuel Rofe Samuel Rofe
Adjutant .
Rich. P. Apthorp
Rich. P. Apthorp Rich. P. Apthorp
Quartermaster .
Samuel Brodribb
John Palmer
Surgeon .
Robt. Dunkin Smyth
Robt. Dunkin Smyth Archibald Stewart
A sst.-Surgeor.s
Ed. W. Stone, M.D.
Ed. W. Stone, M.D. Robert B. Wigstrom
A. S. Thomson, M.D.
A. S. Thomson, M.D. Charles H. Fasson
Vet.-Surgeon .
James Geo. Philips
James Geo. Philips ; James Geo. Philips
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co. i Messrs. Cox and Co. Messrs. Cox and Co.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
543
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station— India. Uniform— Blue ; facings, scarlet. Badges— The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' ' Orthes,'
'Peninsula.'
1849
1850
1851
Colonel
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Bt.,G.C.H., K.C.B.,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Bt.,G.C.H.,K.C.B.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
John Wallace King
John W. King, C.B.
H. Ed. Doherty, C.B.
Henry Ed. Doherty
H.Ed. Doherty, C.B.
Charles Steuart
Majors
Charles Steuart
Charles Steuart
William Clarke
William Clarke
William Clarke
John H. Goddard
Captains .
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
William Wilmer
William Wilmer
William Wilmer
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Rich. Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
Thomas Garratt
Thomas Garratt
Thomas Garratt
James Chambre
James Chambre
James Chambre
John A. Todd
John A. Todd
John A. Todd
P. S. Thompson
Chas. W. Thompson
P. S. Thompson
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Lieutenants
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Robert J. Brown
William Nettleship
William Nettleship
Rd. P. Apthorp
Robert J. Brown
Robert J. Brown
William McMahon
Rd. P. Apthorp, Adj.
Rd. P. Apthorp, Adj.
Robt. T. Woodman
William McMahon
William McMahon
Arthur Need
Robt. T. Woodman
Robt. T. Woodman
William English
Arthur Need
Arthur Need
John T. Ling
William English
William English
Taylor L. Mayne
John T. Ling
John T. Ling
Herbert Edwards
Taylor L. Mayne
Taylor L. Mayne
Thomas Barrett
Herbert Edwards
Herbert Edwards
Henry E. Reader
Thomas Barrett
Thomas Barrett
Wm. Dundas Boyd
Henry E. Reader
Henry E. Reader
Hon.R.W.Chetwynd
Samuel K. Ibbetson
Wm. Dundas Boyd
William Spilling
Wm. Dundas Boyd
Hon.R.W.Chetwynd
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Hon.R.W.Chetwynd
William Spilling
John Dudgeon
William Spilling
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
M. C. Smith, Riding-
Stanley O. Black
master
John Dudgeon
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
Cornets
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Michael C. Smith
John Holliday
Stanley O. Black
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Fred. Vansittart
John Dudgeon
John Holliday
Geo. A. Franklyn
Michael C. Smith
Fred. Vansittart
John P. Kennedy
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Geo. A. Franklyn
James Leith
John Holliday
John P. Kennedy
Egerton Ford
Fred. Vansittart
James Leith
Henry T. Clements
Geo. A. Franklyn
Egerton Ford
Frederick Coates
Paymaster
Samuel Rofe
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
haugh, Lieut.
haugh, Lieut.
Adjutant .
Rich. P. Apthorp
Rich. P. Apthorp
H. Elmhirst Reader
Quartermaster .
George Shenton
George Shenton
Thomas Bennett
Surgeon .
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
A sst.- Surgeons
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Vet.-Surgeon .
Alex. W. Caldwell
Alex. W. Caldwell
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
544
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue; facings, scarlet. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — 'Douro/ ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,'
' Orthes,' ' Peninsula.' Additional distinctions in 1853 -' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' ' Goojerat.'
1852
1853
1854
Colonel ,
Sir Edward Kerrison,
Hon. Henry Murray,
Hon. Henry Murray,
Bt.,G.C.H., K.C.B.,
C.B., Lt.-Gen.
C.B., Lt.-Gen.
Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
H. Ed. Doherty, C.B.
H. Ed. Doherty, C.B.
H.Ed. Doherty, C.B.
Charles Steuart
Charles Steuart
Charles Steuart, Col.
Majors
William Clarke
William Clarke
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
John H. Goddard
William Wilmer
Captains .
Wm. Wilmer, Major
Wm. Wilmer, Maj.
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Rich. Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
Rich. Herbert Gall
James Chambre
Thomas Garratt
Thomas Garratt
John A. Todd
James Chambre
James Chambre
P. S. Thompson
John A. Todd
John A. Todd
Rich. B. Prettejohn
P. S. Thompson
P. S. Thompson
Robert J. Brown
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
William McMahon
Robert J. Brown
Thomas Barrett
Lieutenants
Robert J. Brown
Rich. P. Apthorp
Arthur Need
Rich. P. Apthorp
William McMahon
William English
William McMahon
Arthur Need
John T. Ling
Arthur Need
William English
Taylor L. Mayne
William English
John T. Ling
Hy. E. Reader, Adj.
John T. Ling
Taylor L. Mayne
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Taylor L. Mayne
Thomas Barrett
John Dudgeon
Herbert Edwards
H. E. Reader, Adj.
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Thomas Barrett
Wm. Dundee Boyd
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
H. E. Reader, Adj.
Hon.R.W.Chetwynd
Fred. Vansittart
Wm. Dundas Boyd
William Spilling
James Leith
Hon.R.W.Chetwynd
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Alex. E. M'Gregor
William Spilling
John Dudgeon
Henry T. Clements
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Claud B. Whish
John Dudgeon
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
W. H. T. C. Travers
Thos. Ed. Gordon
John Holliday, Rid-
Standish R. Jackson
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
ing-master
Robert Chadwick
John Holliday, Rid-
Fred. Vansittart
Chas. W. Thesiger
ing-master
Thos. Price Gratrex
H. W. M. Hathway
Fred. Vansittart
John P. Kennedy
Cornets .
J. P. Kennedy, Ensign
James Leith
L. St. Patrick Gowan
James Leith
Egerton Ford
E. O. V. Haldane
Egerton Ford
Henry T. Clements
Lawrence Mackenzie
Henry T. Clements
Claudius B. Whish
Leonard Redmayne
Claudius B. Whish
W. H. T. Clarke
Geo. Meyrick Dew
W. H. T. Clarke
Standish R. Jackson
James Giles
Standish R. Jackson
George Ross
George Ross
Paymaster
W. Featherstonhaugh
W. Featherstonhaugh
W. Featherstonhaugh
Adjutant .
Henry E. Reader
Henry E. Reader
Henry E. Reader
Quartermaster .
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Surgeon .
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
Asst.-Surgeons
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Robt. B.-Wigstrom
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Vet.-Surgeon .
Alex. W. Caldwell
William C. Lord
William C. Lord
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
THE i4Tii (KING'S) HUSSARS
545
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue ; facings, scarlet. Badges— The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' 'Orthes,'
'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' ' Goojerat.'
1855
1856
1857
Colonel .
Hon. Henry Murray,
Hon. Henry Murray,
Hon. Henry Murray,
C.B., Gen.
C.B., Gen.
C.B., Gen.
Lt. -Colonels
Henry E. Doherty,
Henry E. Doherty,
Henry Ed. Doherty,
C.B.
C.B., Col.
C.B., Col.
Charles Steuart, Col.
C. Steuart, C.B., Col.
C. Steuart, C.B., Col.
Majors . ;; .
William Wilmer
William Wilmer
William Wilmer
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore
Captains . ,~ , .
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Wm. A. Gaussen
Richard H. Gall
Richard H. Gall
Richard H. Gall
John Augustus Todd
John Augustus Todd
John Augustus Tod
Pearson S.Thompson
Pearson S.Thompson
Pearson S.Thompson
Rich. B. Prettejohn
Rich. B. Prettejohn
R. B. Prettejohn
Robert J. Brown
Robert J. Brown
R. Johnston Brown
William McMahon
William McMahon
William McMahon
Thomas Barrett
Thomas Barrett
Thomas Barrett
Arthur Need
Arthur Need
Arthur Need
Henry E. Reader
Henry Brett
William English
Lieutenants
William English
William English
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
John Theodore Ling
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Thos. Ed. Gordon
Taylor L. Mayne
John Dudgeon
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
Wm. D'Urban Blyth
Thomas Ed. Gordon
James Leith
John Dudgeon
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
Alex. E. M'Gregor
Thomas Ed. Gordon
Frederick Vansittart
Hy. T. Clements
Chas. Edwyn Wyatt
James Leith
Claud B. Whish
Frederick Vansittart
Alex. E. M'Gregor
Wm. Hy. Travers
James Leith
H. T. Clements, Adj.
Clarke Travers
Alex. E. M'Gregor
Claud B. Whish
Standish R. Jackson
Henry T. Clements
William H. Travers
Robert Chadwick
Claud B. Whish
Clarke Travers
Chas. W. Thesiger
William Hy. Travers
Standish R. Jackson
L. St. Patrick Gowan
Clarke Travers
Robert Chadwick
Ed. 0. V. Haldane
Standish R. Jackson
Chas. W. Thesiger
Lawrence Mackenzie
Robert Chadwick
L. St. Patrick Gowan
Leonard Redmayne
Chas. W. Thesiger
E. O. V. Haldane
George Meyrick Dew
H. W. M. Hathway
Lawrence Mackenzie
L. St. Patrick Gowan
Leonard Redmayne
E. O. V. Haldane
Geo. Meyrick Dew
Cornets
Lawrence Mackenzie
James Giles
James Giles
Leonard Redmayne
Wm. Hy. Slingsby
Wm. H. S. Beamish
Geo. Meyrick Dew
Beamish
Rich. P. Ridley
James Giles
Thomas Phillips
W. H. S. Beamish
Paymaster
W. Featherstonhaugh
W. Featherstonhaugh
W. Featherstonhaugh
Adjutant .
Henry T. Clements
Henry T. Clements
Henry T. Clements
Riding-master .
Joseph Raiker
Quartermaster .
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Surgeon . .
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
Archibald Stewart
Asst.-Surgeons
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Chas. H. Fasson
Thos. W. Fox, M.B.
Thos. W. Fox
Thos. W. Fox, M.D.
Vet.-Surgeon .
William C. Lord
William C. Lord
William C. Lord
Agents . •• • .
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
2 M
546
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS
Station — India; (1861) Dunkalk. Uniform — Blue; facings, scarlet. Badges — The King's Crest and
Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,'
'Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' 'Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat.' Additional distinction in 1860 — 'Persia.'
1858
1859
1860
1861
Colonel
Hon. H. Murray,
Hon. H. Murray,
Hon. H. Murray,
William Beckwith,
C.B., Gen.
C.B., Gen.
C.B., Gen.
K.H., Maj.-Gen.
Lt.-Cols. .
C.Steuart,C.B.,Col.
C.Steuart,C.B.,Col.
C.Steuart,C.B.,Col.
C.Steuart,C.B.,Col.
C. P. Ainslie, Col.
C. P. Ainslie, Col.
C. P. Ainslie, Col.
Majors
Arthur Scudamore
Arthur Scudamore,
Arthur Scudamore,
Arthur Scudamore,
Rd. Herbert Gall,
Lt.-Col.
C.B., Lt.-Col.
C.B., Lt.-Col.
Lt.-Col.
Rd. Herbert Gall,
Rd. Herbert Gall,
Rd. Herbert Gall,
C.B., Lt.-Col.
C.B., Lt.-Col.
C.B., Lt.-Col.
Captains .
John A. Todd
John A. Todd, Maj.
John A. Todd, Lt.-
John A. Todd, Lt.-
P. Scott Thompson
P. S. Thompson,
Col.
Col.
R. B. Prettejohn
Maj.
P. S. Thompson,
P. S. Thompson,
Robert J. Brown
R. B. Prettejohn
Maj.
Lt.-Col.
William McMahon
Robert J. Brown
Rd. B. Prettejohn,
R. B. Prettejohn,
Thomas Barrett
W. McMahon, Maj.
Maj.
Lt.-Col.
Arthur Need
Thomas Barrett
Robert J. Brown
Robert J. Brown
W. D'Urban Blyth
Arthur Need, Maj.
William McMahon
Arthur Need, Maj.
Thos. E. Gordon
W. D'Urban Blyth
Arthur Need, Maj.
W. D'Urban Blyth
Chas.EdwynWyatt
Thos. E. Gordon
W. D'Urban Blyth
F. B. Chapman
Chas.EdwynWyatt
Thos. E. Gordon
Wm. Hy. Travers
Chas.Ed wyn Wyatt
Clarke Travers
Lieuts.
James Leith
H. T. Clements,
Claud B. Whish
Claud B. Whish
H. T. Clements
Adj.
Wm. H. Travers
Robert Chadwick
Claud B. Whish
Claud B. Whish
Clarke Travers
Lawrence St. P.
Wm. H. Travers
Wm. H. Travers
Standish Radley
Gowan
Clarke Travers
Clarke Travers
J ackson
L. Mackenzie
S. Radley Jackson
S. Radley Jackson
Robert Chadwick
James Giles, Adj.
Robert Chadwick
Robert Chadwick
Lawrence St. P.
Robert Mather
L. St. P. Gowan
L. St. P. Gowan
Gowan
Ed. Essex Digby
E. O. V. Haldane
E. O. V. Haldane
L. Mackenzie
Boycott
L. Mackenzie
L. Mackenzie
George Meyrick
Francis B. Eagle
George M. Dew
George M. Dew
Dew
Henry Bradley
James Giles
James Giles
Wm. Hy. Slingsby
W. H. S. Beamish
W. H. S. Beamish
Beamish
Richard P. Ridley
Richard P. Ridley
Robert Mather
Cornets
Francis B. Eagle
Francis B. Eagle
Francis B. Eagle
Percy Dodgson
Henry Bradley
Henry Bradley
Henry Bradley
Wm. A. Atcherley
Percy Dodgson
Percy Dodgson
Percy Dodgson
W. Sandys Browne
Wm. A. Atcherley
Wm. A. Atcherley
Wm. A. Atcherley
Hon. F. Amherst
W. Sandys Brown
W. Sandys Browne
Chas. A. P. Talbot
Hon. F. Amherst
Hon. F. Amherst
F. J. S. H. Newton
Ed. W. Pritchard
Ed. W. Pritchard
John A. Donnelly
Paymaster
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
haugh
haugh
haugh
haugh
Adjutant .
Henry T. Clements
H.T.Clements, Lt.
James Giles
Rtd.-mas. .
Joseph Raiker
Joseph Raiker
Joseph Raiker
Joseph Raiker
Qr3 master.
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett
Surgeon .
Archibald Stewart
E. J.Franklyn,M.D.
William Arden
William Arden
Ass.-Surg.
R. C. Lofthouse,M. D.
R.C.Lofthouse,M.D.
R. C. Lofthouse,M. D.
R.C.Lofthouse,M.D.
Robt. B. Forsyth-
Robt. B. Forsyth-
Robt. B. Forsyth-
Brown
Brown
Brown
Vet.-Surg.
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs Coxand Co.
Messrs.CoxandCo.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
547
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue ; facings, scarlet. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions —
' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' ' Orthes,' 'Peninsula,'
' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia.' Additional distinction in 1864 — 'Central
India.'
1862
1863
1864
Stations
Manchester
Manchester
Aldershot
Colonel .
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.,
Wm.Beckwith,K.H.,
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
Sir Wm. Russell, Sir Wm. Russell, Bt,
Sir Wm. Russell, Bt.,
Bart., C.B.
C.B.
C.B., Col.
Majors
Rich. Herbert Gall,
Rich. Herbert Gall,
Pearson S. Thomp-
C.B., Lt-Col.
C.B., Lt.-Col.
son, Lt.-Col.
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
R. Johnston Brown
son, Lt.-Col.
son, Lt.-Col.
Captains . .
John Augustus Todd,
Rich. Buckley Prette-
Rich. Buckley Prette-
Lt-Col.
john, Lt.-Col.
john, Lt.-Col.
Rd. Buckley Prette-
R. Johnston Brown
F. Barclay Chapman
john, Lt.-Col.
F. Barclay Chapman
Wm. Hy. Travers
R. Johnston Brown
Wm. Hy. Travers
Clarke Travers
Arthur Need, Lt.-Col.
Clarke Travers
Robert Chadwick
F. Barclay Chapman
Robert Chadwick
John Baskerville
Hy. Travers Clarke
John Baskerville
Robert Mather
Travers
Lawrence Mackenzie
Fra. P. Campbell
Robert Chadwick
Robert Mather
Edward Essex Digby
John Baskerville
Boycott
Lieutenants
Lawrence Mackenzie
Ed. E. D. Boycott
Henry Bradley
James Giles, Adj.
Henry Bradley
William Arbuthnot
Robert Mather
William Arbuthnot
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Ed. E. D. Boycott
Hon. Fred. Amherst
John Hunter Knox
Henry Bradley
John Hunter Knox
F. J. S. H. Newton
William Arbuthnot
Chas. A. P. Talbot
John Mather
William S. Browne
F. J. S. H. Newton
R. J. C. Thompson
Hon. Fred. Amherst
John Mather
John Bradney
John Hunter Knox
R. J. C. Thompson
G. S. Lynch -Staunton
Cornets
Percy Dodgson
Percy Dodgson
Percy Dodgson
Chas. A. P. Talbot
John Bradney
Francis Shirley Rus-
F. J. S. H. Newton
Geo. Staunton Lynch-
sell
John Mather
Staunton
James Logan White
Rawdon John Cort-
Jas.Colquhoun Revell
Jas. George Glyn
land Thompson
Reade
Shaw
John Bradney
Francis Shirley Rus-
Thos.Kingston Baker
Geo. Staunton Lynch-
sell
James Crum
Staunton
Jas. Logan White
Sam. Tudor Ashton
Jas.Colquhoun Revell
John Geo. Glyn Shaw
Hon.John St. Vincent
Reade
Thos.Kingston Baker
Saumarez
Paymaster
W. Featherstonhaugh
W. Featherstonhaugh
Wm. Featherston-
haugh, Lt.and Hon.
Major
In. of Musketry
Lawrence Mackenzie
Lawrence Mackenzie
F.J. S.H.Newton, Lt.
Adjutant .
James Giles
Ed. E. D. Boycott
Do. do.
Riding-master .
Joseph Raiker
Joseph Raiker
Joseph Raiker
Quartermaster .
Thomas Bennett
Thos. Howell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Surgeon .
William Arden
William Arden
W. Arden, Surg.-Maj.
A sst.- Surgeon ,
R.C. Lofthouse.M.D.
R. C.Lofthouse,M.D.
R.C.Lofthouse, M.D.
Vet.- Surgeon .
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
548
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian Eagle.
Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera.' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,'
'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' 'Chillian wallah,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia,' 'Central India.'
1865
1866
1867
Stations
Aldershot
Hounslow
Edinburgh
Colonel .
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.,
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.,
Wm. Beckwith, K.H.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
son
son
son
Majors
R. Johnston Brown
R. Johnston Brown
R. Johnston Brown
F. Barclay Chapman
F. Barclay Chapman
F. Barclay Chapman
Captains .
Wm. Hy. Travers
Wm. Hy. Travers
Robt. Chadwick
Clarke Travers
Clarke Travers
John Baskerville
Robert Chadwick
Robert Chadwick
Fra. P. Campbell
John Baskerville
John Baskerville
Edward Essex Digby
Fra. P. Campbell
Fra. P. Campbell
Boycott
Edward Essex Digby
Edward Essex Digby
William Arbuthnot
Boycott
Boycott
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Henry Bradley
William Arbuthnot
Arthur Nassau Bolton
William Arbuthnot
Hon. Fred. Amherst
John Hunter Knox
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Arthur Nassau Bolton
Lieutenants
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
F. J. S. H. Newton
Fra. John Stuart Hay
Fra. John Stuart Hay
John Mather
Newton
Newton
G. S. Lynch-Staunton
John Mather
John Mather
Francis S. Russell
Geo. Staunton Lynch-
Geo. Staunton Lynch-
SamuelTudor Ashton
Staunton
Staunton
Joseph Boulton
Francis S. Russell
Francis S. Russell
Hon. John St. V.
James Logan White
James Logan White
Saumarez
Jas. Geo. Glyn Shaw
Jas. Geo. Glyn Shaw
Joseph Harpur, Adjt.
Thos. Kington Baker
SamuelTudor Ashton
Thos. Allan Henry
Samuel Tudor Ashton
Joseph Boulton
Geo. W. D. Kempson
Cornets .
Hon. John St. Vincent
Hon. John St. Vincent
George Robert Elves
Saumarez
Saumarez
Malcolm A. Laing
Joseph Harpur
Joseph Harpur, Adj.
Halstead S. Cobden
Thos. Allan Henry
Thos. Allan Henry
James Poynter
Jas. W. Robertson
Geo. W. D. Kempson
Edmund Peel
Geo. W. D. Kempson
George Robt. Elwes
G. B. C. Yarborough
George Robt. Elwes
Malcolm Alf. Laing
Joseph L. Milligan
Malcolm Alf. Laing
Halstead S. Cobden
Charles Kennett
James Poynter
Paymaster
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
Wm. Featherston-
haugh,Lt. and Hon.
haugh,Lt.and Hon.
haugh,Lt.and Hon.
Major
Major
Major
In. of Musketry Francis S. Russell, Lt.
Francis S. Russell, Lt.
Fra. S. Russell, Lt.
Adjutant . . F. J. S. Hay Newton, I J. Harpur, Cornet
Joseph Harpur, Lt.
Lt.
Riding-master . Joseph Raiker
James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster. Thos. Hovvell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Surgeon . . W. Arden, Surg.-Maj.
Ormsby Bowen Miller
Ormsby Bowen Miller
Asst.-Surgeon . Rich. Chapman Loft-
Rich. Chapman Loft-
Rich. Chapman Loft-
house, M.D.
house, M.D.
house, M.D.
Vet. -Surgeon .
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Henry Dawson
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co. Messrs. Cox and Co.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
549
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform— Blue ; busby-bag, yellow; plume, white. Badges— The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,'
'Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallali,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia,' 'Central India.'
1868
1869
1870
Stations . Dublin
Longford
Cahir
Colonel . . Wm. Beckwith.K.H.,
Wm. Beckwith,K.H.,
Wm.Beckwith,K.H.,
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel .Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
son, Col.
son, Col.
son, C.B., Col.
Major . . Fred. B. Chapman
Fred. B. Chapman
Fred. B. Chapman
Robert Chadwick
Fra. P. Campbell
Fra. P. Campbell
Captains .
John Baskerville
William Arbuthnot
William Arbuthnot
Fra. P. Campbell
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Edw. E. D. Boycott
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
William Arbuthnot
John Mather
John Mather
Hon. Fred. Amherst
G. S. Lynch-Staunton
Fra. Shirley Russell
John Hunter Knox
Fra. Shirley Russell
Samuel T. Ashton
Fra. J. S. H. Newton
Samuel T. Ashton
Hon. John St. V.
John Mather
Joseph Boulton
Saumarez
Geo. Robert Elwes
Lieutenants
G. S. Lynch-Staunton
Hon. John St. V.
Joseph Harpur, Adj.
Francis S. Russell
Saumarez
Malcolm A. Laing
Samuel T. Ashton
Joseph Harpur, Adj.
Wm. H. F. Palmer
Joseph Boulton
Thos. Allan Henry
Henry Bulkeley
Hon. John St. V.
Geo. Robert Elwes
Edmund Peel
Saumarez
Malcolm A. Laing
G. B. C. Yarborough
Joseph Harpur, Adj.
Wm. H. F. Palmer
Wm. S. Beaumont
Thos. Allan Henry
Henry Bulkeley
Albert Brassey
Wm. John St. Aubyn
Edmund Peel
Gerald E. M'Carthy
George Robt. Elwes
C. B. C. Yarborough
Chas. Jas. M. Lefroy
Cornets .
Malcolm A. Laing
Wm. S. Beaumont
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Halstead S. Cobden
Albert Brassey
Henry L'Est. Malone
James Poynter
Chas. E. P. Chaplin
Jas. Reginald Bray
Edmund Peel
Gerald E. M'Carthy
W. H. D. Ward
G. B. C. Yarborough
Chas. Jas. M. Lefrov
James Kentish
Wm. S. Beaumont
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Albert Brassey
Henry L'Est. Malone
Jas. Reginald Bray
Paymaster . \ Wm. Featherston-
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
haugh, Lieut, and
Captain
Captain
Hon. Major
Adjutant. . i Joseph Harpur, Lt. Joseph Harpur, Lt.
Joseph Harpur, Lt.
Riding-master . James Harran James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster .
Thos. Howell Clark Thos. Howell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Surgeon .
Ormsby B. Miller Ormsby B. Miller
Ormsby B. Miller
As st.- Surgeon .
Edwin Wilson ! William Hensman
William Hensman
Vet. -Surgeon .
Henry Dawson Henry Dawson | Henry Dawson
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.,
Messrs. Cox and Co.,
and Sir E. Borough,
and Sir E. Borough,
Bt., Armit and Co.,
Bt., Armit and Co.,
Dublin
Dublin
550
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,'
'Orthes,' ' Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillian wallah,' 'Goojerat,' ' Persia,' 'Central India.'
1871
1872 1873
Stations
Ballincollig
Newbridge Dublin
Colonel . .
Wm.Beckwith,K.H.,
Henry Rich. Jones, Henry Rich. Jones,
Gen.
C.B., Maj.-Gen. C.B., Maj.-Gen.
Lt. -Colonel
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp- Pearson S. Thomp-
son, C.B., Col.
son, C.B., Col. son, C.B., Col.
Majors
Fra. P. Campbell
Fra. P. Campbell Fra. P. Campbell
William Arbuthnot
William Arbuthnot William Arbuthnot
Captains . . \ Hon. Fred. Amherst
Hon. Fred. Amherst Hon. Fred. Amherst
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox John Hunter Knox
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra. Shirley Russell Fra. Shirley Russell
Hon. John St. V.
Hon. John St V.IHon. John St. V.
Saumarez
Saumarez Saumarez
Malcolm A. Laing
Malcolm A. Laing
Malcolm A. Laing
Wm. H. F. Palmer
Edmund Peel Joseph Harpur
Edmund Peel
Wm. S. Beaumont Alan C. Gardner
Wm. S. Beaumont
Chas. Jas. M. Lefroy Samuel Barrett
Lieutenants
Joseph Harpur, Adj.
Toseph Harpur, Adj. Wm. Bell M'Taggart
G. B. C. Yarborough
Wm. Bell M'Taggart Henry L'Est. Malone
Albert Brassey
Henry L'Est Malone Jas. Reg. Bray, Adj.
Chas. Jas. M. Lefroy
Jas. Reginald Bray Wm. H. D. Ward
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Wm. H. D. Ward James Kentish
Henry L'Est Malone
James Kentish
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Jas. Reginald Bray
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Arch. Wm. Merry
Wm. H. D. Ward
Arch. Wm. Merry
Richard Garth
James Kentish
Richard Garth
Sub-Lieuts.
Sub-Lieuts.
Cornets .
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Llewellyn Wynn B.
Hon. H. G. Gough
Win. Ernest Hyder
Sparrow
Aug. John English
Arch. Wm. Merry
Hon. H. G. Gough
Hy. Rich. L. Howard
! Jn. S. H. Maxwell
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Paymaster
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
.
Captain
Captain
Captain
Adjutant . . Joseph Harpur, Lt.
Joseph Harpur, Lt.
Jas. Reg. Bray, Lt.
Riding-master .
James Harran
James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster .
Thos. Howell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Thos. Howell Clark
Surgeon . ' '..
Ormsby B. Miller
Ormsby B. Miller
Ormsby B. Miller
Asst.-Surgeon .
Wm. Hensman
Wm. Hensman
Wm. Hensman
Vet.- Surgeon .
Fred. F. Marshall
Fred. F. Marshall Fred. F. Marshall
Agents . .
Messrs. Cox and Co.,
Messrs. Cox and Co., Messrs. Cox and Co.,
and Sir E. Borough,
and Sir E. Borough, and Sir E. Borough,
Bt., Armit and Co.,
Bt., Armit and Co., Bt, Armit and Co.,
Dublin
Dublin Dublin
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The King's Crest and Prussian
Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,'
' Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,' ' Persia,' 'Central India.1
1874
1875
1876
Station
Aldershot
Aldershot
India
Colonel .
John Wilkie, Maj.-
John Wilkie, Maj.-
John Wilkie, Maj.-
Gen.
Gen.
Gen.
Lt. -Co lone I
Pearson S. Thomp-
Pearson S. Thomp-
Francis Pemberton
son, C.B., Col.
son, C.B., Col.
Campbell, Lt.-Col.
Majors . .
Fra. P. Campbell
Fra. P. Campbell
William Arbuthnot
William Arbuthnot
William Arbuthnot
Captains . »
Hon. Fred. Amherst
Hon. Fred. Amherst
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra Shirley Russell
Joseph Harpur
Joseph Harpur
Joseph Harpur
Alan C. Gardner
Alan C. Gardner
Alan C. Gardner
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Samuel Barrett
Algernon Edward S.
James Dennis
Algernon Edward S.
Preston
Henry L'Estrange
Preston
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Malone
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
James Dennis
James Kentish
Lieutenants
Henry L'Estrange
Henry L'Estrange
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Malone
Malone
Richard Garth
James Kentish, Adj.
James Kentish, Adj.
Hon. Hugh George
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Thos. H. H. Garrett
Gough, Adj.
Archibald W. Merry
Archibald W. Merry
Augustus J. English
Richard Garth
Richard Garth
Christ. D. V. Tuthil
Hon. Hugh George
John Shaw Heron-
Gough
Maxwell
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Augustus J. English
Gerald C. Ricardo
Christ. D. V. Tuthill
William Lockhart
Arthur Abney Sandys
M'Call
John Shaw Heron-
Wm. Ed. Stokes
Maxwell
Richard Owen
Sub-Lieuts.
Hon. Hugh George
Fred. Gordon Blair
Wm. Henry Burn
Gough
Gerald C. Ricardo
Ar. Chas. King
Augustus J. English
Wm. Henry Burn
Gilbert Hy. Claude
John Shaw Heron-
Hamilton
Maxwell
Guy St. Maur Palmes
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Fred. Gordon Blair
Gerald C. Ricardo
1
Wm. Henry Burn
Paymaster
Jn. Macartney, Hon.
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd
Capt.
Adjutant,
James Kentish
James Kentish, Lt.
Hon. Hugh George
Gough, Lt.
Riding-master .
James Harran
James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster .
Thos. Howell Clark
Jacob Merill
Surgeon
Vet.- Surgeon
Ormsby Bowen Miller
Fred. F. Marshall
OrmsbyBowen Miller
Fred. F. Marshall
A.C.Gage.Surg.-Maj.
Fred. F. Marshall
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.,
Messrs. Cox and Co.,
Messrs. Cox and Co.
and SirE. Borough,
and Sir E. Borough,
Bt., Armit and Co.,
Bt., Armit and Co.,
Dublin
Dublin
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — (1879) The Royal
Crest within the Garter and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes
d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' 'Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,'
'Persia,' 'Central India.'
1877
1878
1879
Colonel . . .
John Wilkie, Lt.-Gen.
John Wilkie, Lt.-Gen.
John Wilkie, Lt.-Gen.
Lt.- Colonel
William Arbuthnot
William Arbuthnot
Wm. Arbuthnot
Major
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
Captains .
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra. Shirley Russell
Alan C. Gardner
Alan C. Gardner
Alan C. Gardner
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
James Dennis
James Dennis
James Dennis
Henry L'Estrange
James Kentish
James Kentish
Malone
Thos. Ed. Stopford
Thos. Ed. Stopford
James Kentish
Hickman
Hickman
Thos. H. Heaton
Richard Garth
Richard Garth
Garrett
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Rose Wynter
Thos. Ed. Stop ford
Wm. Noel Hill
Wm. Noel Hill
Hickman
Richard Garth
Lieutenants
Hon. Hugh George
Hon. Hugh George
Hon. Hugh George
Gough, Adj.
Gough, Adj.
Gough, Adj.
•'y-
Augustus Jn. English
Christ. D. V. Tuthill
Wm. Henry Burn
Augustus Jn. English
Wm. Henry Burn
Augustus Jn. Engl'sh
John Shaw Heron-
Christ. D. V. Tuthill
Christ. D. V. Tuthill
Maxwell iJohn Shaw Heron-
John Shaw Heron-
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Maxwell
Maxwell
Gerald C. Ricardo
Chas. Fred. Lindsell
Gerald C. Ricardo
Wm. Ed. Stokes
Gerald C. Ricardo
Wm. L. M'Call
William Lockhart
Wm. Ed. Stokes
Arthur Charles King
M'Call
Wm. L. M'Call
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Chas. Cecil Percy
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Hamilton
Stoughton
Hamilton
Guy St. Maur Palmes
Guy St. Maur Palmes
Chas. Cecil Percy
Chas. Cecil Percy
Stoughton
Stoughton
Arch. Allan Cammell
Sub-Lieuts.
Wm. Henry Burn
Arthur Charles King
Chas. Edwd. Skyring
Arthur Charles King
Chas. Edwd. Skyring
Hemery
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Hemery
Hamilton
Guy St. Maur Palmes
Chas. Edwd. Skyring
Hemery
Paymaster
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Hon. Capt.
Hon. Capt.
Adjutant .
Hon. Hugh George
Hon. Hugh George
Hon. Hugh George
Gough, Lt.
Gough, Lt.
Gough, Lt.
Riding-master .
James Harran
James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster .
Geo. Ferris Rumsey,
Geo. Ferris Rumsey
Geo. Ferris Rumsey
Cornet
Surgeon .
Arthur Charles Gage.
Arthur Charles Gage,
Surg. -Major
Surg.-Major
Vet.-Surgeon .
Fred. F. Marshall
Wm. Albert Russell
Wm. Albert Russell
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Stations — (1880) India. (1881) India and South Africa. (1882) India. Uniform — Blue; busby-
bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest within the Garter and Prussian Eagle.
Distinctions— 'Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' 'Orthes,'
'Peninsula,' 'Punjaub,' 'Chillian wallah,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia,' 'Central India.'
1880
1881
1882
Colonel .
John Wilkie, Gen.
John Wilkie, Gen.
John Wilkie, Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
Wm. Arbuthnot
Wm. Arbuthnot
John Hunter Knox
Fra. Shirley Russell
Majors
John Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
James Dennis
James Kentish
Thos. Ed. Stopford
Hickman
Captains .
Fra. Shirley Russell
Fra. Shirley Russell
Richard Garth
Alan C. Gardner
Alan C. Gardner
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Bell M'Taggart
James Dennis
Wm. Noel Hill
James Dennis
James Kentish
Hon. Hugh George
James Kentish
Thos. Ed. Stopford
Gough
Thos. Ed. Stopford
Hickman
Hickman
Richard Garth
Richard Garth
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Rose VVynter
Wm. Noel Hill
Wm. Noel Hill
Hon. Hugh George
Hon. Hugh George
Gough
Gough
Lieutenants
Wm. Hy. Burn
Wm. Hy. Burn
Wm. Hy. Burn
Aug. Jn. English
Aug. Jn. English
Aug. Jn. English
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Adj.
Adj.
Adj.
Gerald C. Ricardo
Gerald C. Ricardo
Arthur Chas. King
Wm. L. M'Call
Wm. L. M'Call
Richard Owen
Arthur Chas. King
Arthur Chas. King
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Hamilton
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Chas. Ed. Skyring
Hamilton
Hamilton
Hemery
Guy St. Maur Palmes
Chas. Ed. Skyring
Chas. C. P. Stough-
Chas. Ed. Skyring
Hemery
ton
Hemery
Chas. C. P. Stough-
Henry W. Mitchell
Chas. Cecil Percy
ton
James Kemp Fraser
Stoughton
Hugh Kirk
Arch. Allan Cammell
Francis Jas. Norman
Sub-Lieuts.
Henry W. Mitchell
Henry W. Mitchell
James Kemp Fraser
Peter M. Staunton
Hugh Kirk
Paymaster
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Hon. Maj.
Hon. Maj.
Hon. Maj.
Adjutant .
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Lieut.
Lieut.
Lieut.
Riding-master .
James Harran
James Harran
James Harran
Quartermaster .
Geo. Ferris Rumsey
Geo. Ferris Rumsey
Geo. Ferris Rumsey
Vet.-Surgeon .
Daniel C. Pallin
Daniel C. Pallin
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
554
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Station — India. Uniform — Blue; busby-bag, yellow; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest
within the Garter and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — 'Douro,' 'Talavera,' 'Fuentes d'Onor,'
'Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' 'Orthes,1 'Peninsula,' 'Punjaub,' 'Chillianwallah,1 'Goojerat,'
' Persia,' ' Central India.'
1883
1884
1885
Colonel .
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
Lt.-Colonels
John Hunter Knox IJohn Hunter Knox
John Hunter Knox
Chas. Falkiner Mor-
Chas. Falkiner Mor-
Chas. Falkiner Mor-
ton
ton
ton
Majors .
James Dennis
James Dennis
James Dennis
James Kentish
T. E. Stopford Hick-
T. E. Stopford Hick-
T. E. Stopford Hick-
man
man
man
Richard Garth
Richard Garth
Captains .
Richard Garth
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Rose Wynter
Wm. Noel Hill
Hon. Hugh George
Wm. Noel Hill
Hon. Hugh George
Gough
Hon. Hugh George
Gough
Aug. John English
Gough
Wm. Henry Burn
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Adj.
Arthur Chas. King
Lieutenants
Wm. Henry Burn
Aug. John English
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Aug. John English
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
ton
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Adj.
Chas. E. Skyring
Adj.
Arthur Chas. King
Hemery
Arthur Chas. King
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Chas. E. P. Stough-
Richard Owen
ton
ton
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Chas. E. Skyring
Henry W. Mitchell
ton
Hemery
James Kemp Fraser
Chas. E. Skyring
Chas. C. P. Stough-
Hugh Kirk
Hemery
ton
Francis Jas. Norman
Chas. C. P. Stough-
Henry W. Mitchell
Arthur Brooks Broad -
ton
James Kemp Fraser
hurst
Henry W. Mitchell
Hugh Kirk
Lawrence Anthony
James Kemp Eraser
Francis Jas. Norman
Stransham
Hugh Kirk
Arthur Brooks Broad-
Geo. Hosk Seymour
Francis Jas. Norman
hurst
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Arthur BrooksBroad-
Lawrence Anthony
son
hurst
Stransham
F. Dunbar - Sinclair
Lawrence Anthony
Bentley-Innes.
Stransham
Paymaster
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Ed. Hy. O'Dowd,
Edwin L. R. Thack-
Hon. Maj.
Hon. Maj.
well, Capt
Adjutant.
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Christ. D. V. Tuthill,
Lieut.
Lieut.
Capt.
Riding-master .
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham
Quartermaster .
Fred. Mugford
Fred. Mugford
Fred. Mugford
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform— Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest within the Garter
and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,'
' Vittoria,' 'Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia,' ' Central
India.'
1886
1887
1888
Stations
India
Shorncliffe
Shorncliffe
Colonel .
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
Lt. -Colonels
Chas. Falkiner Mor-
C. Falkiner Morton,
Hy. B. Hamilton
ton
Col.
James Dennis
H.Blackburne Hamil-
ton
Majors
Thomas E. Stopford
Thomas E. Stopford
Richard Garth
Hickman
Hickman
Hon. Geo. H. Gough,
James Kentish
James Kentish
Brevet Lt.-Col.
Richard Garth
Richard Garth
Aug. John English
Hon. Geo. H. Gough,
Brevet Lt.-Col.
Captains .
Hon. Geo. H. Gough
Aug. John English
Arthur Chas. King
Aug. John English Christ. D. V. Tuthill
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Christ. D. V. Tuthill Arthur Chas. King
ton
Arthur Chas. King Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Charles E. Skyring
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-l ton, Adj.
Hemery
ton, Adj. j Charles E. Skyring
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
Hemery
James Kemp Fraser
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
Chas.C. P. Stoughton
Hugh Kirk
Lieutenants
Charles E. Skyring
Chas. C. P. Stoughton
Arthur B. Broadhurst
Hemery James Kemp Eraser
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Chas.C. P. Stoughton Hugh Kirk
son
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell Arthur Brooks Broad-
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
James Kemp Eraser
hurst
Bart.
Hugh Kirk
Lawrence Anthony
Stuart Robertson
Francis Jas. Norman
Stransham
John Murray
Arthur Brooks Broad-
Lionel Jas. Richard-
hurst
son
Lawrence Anthony
Jas. Percy Miller
Stransham
Stuart Robertson
Lionel J. Richardson
John Murray
James Percy Miller
Stuart Robertson
Richard E. Galindo
Second- Lieuts. .
Denis M. Miller
Cyril Stacey
Rd. G. Brooksbank
John Cheape Stewart
John D. Hamilton
Hy. B. L. Hughes
Paymaster
Edwin L. R. Thack- Hy. John Meares,
Hy. John Meares,
well, Capt
Hon. Major
Hon. Major
Adjutant .
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
Gilbert H. C. Hamil-
H. W. Mitchell, Capt.
ton, Capt.
ton, Capt.
Riding-master .
Thomas Graham
Rich. Odium, Capt.
Rich.Odlum,Hon.Lt.
Quartermaster .
Frederick Mugford
Frederick Mugford
F. Mugford, Hon. Lt.
Agents . . \ Messrs. Cox and Co. Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue; busby-bag, yellow; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest within the Garter
and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — 'Douro,' ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,'
' Vittoria,' '.Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,' 'Persia,' 'Central
India.'
1889
1890
1891
Stations
Brighton
Brighton
Hounslow
Colonel
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
son, Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
Hy. B. Hamilton
Hy. B. Hamilton
Hy. B.Hamilton, Col.
Majors
Hon. George Hugh Hon. George Hugh
Hon. George Hugh
Gough, Bt. Lt.-Col. | Gough
Gough, Col.
Aug. John English Aug. John English iAug. John English
Mich. Arthur Burke Mich. Arthur Burke Mich. Arthur Burke
Captains .
Arthur Chas. King Arthur Chas. King Arthur Chas. King
Gilbert Hy. C. Hamil- Gilbert Hy. C. Hamil- j Gilbert Hy. C. Hamil-
ton ton
ton
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell i Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
James Kemp Fraser,
Hugh Kirk
Hugh Kirk
Acting Paymaster
Arthur B. Broadhurst
Arthur B. Broadhurst
Hugh Kirk
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Arthur B. Broadhurst
son
son
Percy Knight Hale
Robt. Mervyn Rich-
Robt. Mervyn Rich-
Coke
ardson
ardson
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
son
Bart., Adj.
Bart., Adj.
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
Ed. Douglas Brown
Ed. Douglas Brown
Bart.
Stuart Robertson
Walter S. Stanhope
Lieutenants
Stuart Robertson
Stuart Robertson
John Murray
John Murray
John Murray
Ed. James Tickell
Ed. James Tickell
Ed. James Tickell
Denis M. Miller
Denis M. Miller
Denis M. Miller
Cyril Stacey
Cyril Stacey
Cyril Stacey
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
bank
bank
bank
John Douglas Hamil-
John Douglas Hamil-
ton
ton
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Hughes
Hughes
Wm. Gardiner Eley
Second- Lieut s. .
John Douglas Hamil-
Wm. Gardiner Eley , Richard Harold St.
ton Hy. Maxwell Buller
Maur
Hy. Bodvel Lewis Tritton
R. Campbell Stephen
Hughes Richard Harold St.
William Prevost
John Arthur Rowley Maur
Wm. Gardiner Eley
Hy.- Maxwell Buller
Tritton
Paymaster
Jas. K. Fraser, Capt,
Acting Paymaster
Adjutant .
H. W. Mitchell, Capt. : Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
Bart., Capt.
Bart, Capt.
Riding-master .
Richard Odium, Hon.
Richard Odium, Hon.
Richard Odium, Hon.
Lieut.
Lieut.
Capt
Quartermaster .
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Lieut.
Lieut.
Lieut.
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co. | Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform — Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest within the Garter
and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' 'Salamanca,'
' Vittoria," ' Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallah,' ' Goojerat,' 'Persia,' 'Central
India.'
1892
1893
1894
Stations
Leeds
Manchester
Manchester
Colonel .
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
Chas. Wm. Thomp-
son, Gen.
son
son
Lt.-Colonel
Hon. George Hugh
Hon. George Hugh
Hon. George Hugh
Gough, Col.
Gough, Col.
Gough, Col.
Majors
Aug. Jn. English
Aug. Jn. English
Aug. Jn. English
Michael Ar. Burke
Michael Ar. Burke
Arthur Chas. King
Arthur Chas. King
Arthur Chas. King
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Hamilton
Captains .'• •'.
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Gilbert Hy. Claude
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
Hamilton
Hamilton
Ar. Brooks Broad-
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
hurst
Hugh Kirk
Hugh Kirk
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Arthur B. Broad-
Arthur B. Broad-
son
hurst
hurst
Ed. Douglas Brown
Lionel Jas. Richard-
Lionel Jas. Richard-
John Murray
son
son
Edward James Tic-
Robt. Mervyn Rich-
Robt. Mervyn Rich-
kell, Adj.
ardson
ardson
/Ella M. Berkeley
Sir Jas. Percy Miller,
Ed. Douglas Brown
Gage
Bart., Adj.
John Murray
Cyril Stacey
Ed. Douglas Brown
Ed. Jas. Tickell, Adj.
Denis Menezes Miller
Stuart Robertson
.<Ella Molyneux Ber-
Walter Spencer Stan-
keley Gage
hope
John Murray
Lieutenants
Edward Jas. Tickell
Denis Menezes Miller
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
Denis Menezes Miller
Cyril Stacey bank
Cyril Stacey
Rich. Gylby Brooks- Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
bank Hughes
bank
Hy. Bodvel Lewis Wm. Gardiner Eley
Jn. Douglas Hamil-
Hughes R. Campbell Stephen
ton
Wm. Gardiner Eley William Prevost
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
R. Campbell Stephen
Chas. Bosvile Totten-
Hughes 'William Prevost
ham
Wm. Gardiner Eley Chas. Bosvile Totten- William Henry
R. Campbell Stephen ham ij. M'Mahon Roberts
Second-Lieuts. .
William Prevost
William Henry Wm. Jefferey Lockett
Chas. Bosvile Totten-
J. M'Mahon Roberts Chas. Hilton Bindloss
ham Chas. Claude Wallace
Fra. Alex. Garden
Stuart Barrington
Adjutant .
Sir Jas. Percy Miller, ' Ed. Jas. Tickell, Capt. Ed. Jas. Tickell, Capt.
Bart., Capt.
Riding-master .
Rich. Odium, Hon.
Rich. Odium, Hon.
Rich. Odium, Hon.
Capt.
Capt.
Capt.
Quartermaster .
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Lt.
Capt.
Capt.
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co.
558
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
i4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Station — Cahir. Uniform — Blue ; busby-bag, yellow ; plume, white. Badges — The Royal Crest
within the Garter and Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — 'Douro,' 'Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,'
'Salamanca,' 'Vittoria,' ' Orthes,' 'Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' ' Chillianwallab,' 'Goojerat,'
' Persia," ' Central India.'
1895 1896 1897
Colonel . . Chas. Wm. Thomp- Chas. Wm. Thomp-]Hon. Chas. Wemyss
son, Gen. son, Gen. Thesiger, Lt.-Gen.
Lt.-Colonel
Hon. George Hugh ; Hon. George Hugh
Aug. John English
Gough, Col. Gough, Col.
Majors
Aug. Jn. English ! Aug. Jn. English i Gilbert Hy. Claude
i Gilbert Hy. Claude Gilbert Hy. Claude! Hamilton
Hamilton Hamilton
Edmond Donough J.
Hy. Wilmot Mitchell i Hy. Wilmot Mitchell
O'Brien
Lionel Jas. Richard-
son
Captains .
Arthur Brooks Broad- Lionel James Rich-
Robert Mervyn Rich-
hurst ardson
ardson
Lionel James Rich- Robert Mervyn Rich-
Edward Douglas
ardson ardson
Brown
Robert Mervyn Rich- Ed. Douglas Brown
Edward James Tic-
ardson ; Ed ward James Tic-
kell
Ed. Douglas Brown kell, Adj.
.Ella M. Berkeley
John Murray .Ella M. Berkeley Gage
Edward James Tic-' Gage Denis Menezes Miller
kell, Adj. Denis Menezes Miller
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
yElla M. Berkeley \ Rich. Gylby Brooks-
bank
Gage
bank
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Cyril Stacey
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Hughes
Denis Menezes Miller
Hughes
Wm. Gardiner Eley
Rich. Gylby Brooks-
R. Campbell Stephen,
bank
Adj.
Lieutenants
Hy. Bodvel Lewis
Wm. Gardiner Eley
William Prevost
Hughes
R. Campbell Stephen
Chas. Bosvile Totten-
Wm. Gardiner Eley
William Prevost
ham
R. Campbell Stephen
Chas. Bosvile Totten-
William Henry
William Prevost
ham
Wm. Jefferey Lockett
Chas. Bosvile Totten-
William Henry
Clement Geo. Mon-
ham
Wm. Jefferey Lockett
tague Adam
William Henry
Clement Geo. Mon-
Freeling Ross Law-
Wm. Jefferey Lockett
tague Adam
rence
Clement Geo. Mon-
Freeling Ross Law-
Harry Fred. Hamil-
tague Adam
rence
ton Hardy
Harold James Tilney
Second-Lieuts. .
Freeling Ross Law-
Harry F. Hamilton
Thos. Ernest Lyne-
rence
Hardy
doch Hill-Whitson
Harry Fred. Hamil-
Harold James Tilney
C. Archibald Mont-
ton Hardy
gomery Howard
Adjutant .
Edwd. James Tickell,
Edward James Tic-
R. Campbell Stephen
Capt.
kell, Capt.
Riding-master .
Richard Odium, Hon.
Richard Odium, Hon.
Richard Odium, Hon.
Capt.
Capt.
Capt.
Quartermaster .
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Fred. Mugford, Hon.
Capt.
Capt.
Capt.
Agents
Messrs. Cox and Co.
Messrs. Cox and Co. \ Messrs. Cox and Co.
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I4TH (THE KING'S) REGIMENT OF HUSSARS
Uniform— Blue ; busby-bag, yellow; plume, white. Badges— The Royal Crest within the Garter and
Prussian Eagle. Distinctions — ' Douro," ' Talavera,' ' Fuentes d'Onor,' ' Salamanca,' ' Vittoria,' ' Orthes,'
' Peninsula,' ' Punjaub,' 'Chillianwallah,' 'Goojerat,' ' Persia,' ' Central India.'
1898 1899 1900
1901
Stations .
Newbridge Newbridge , South Africa. Reserve
South Africa. Reserve
Squadron — Curragh
Squadron — Curragh
Colonel .
Hon. C. W. Thesi-
Hon. C. W. Thesi- Hon. C. W. Thesi-
Hon. C. W. Thesi-
ger, Lt.-Gen. (£)
ger, Lt.-Gen. ^ ger, Lt.-Gen. «>
ger, Lt.-Gen. IT)
Lt.-Col. .
A. J. English
A. J. English G. H. C. Hamilton
G. H. C. Hamilton,
Col. (Brig.-Gen.,
S. Africa) (s.)
Majors
G. H. C. Hamilton
G. H. C. Hamilton E. D. J. O'Brien
E. D. J. O'Brien
( 2 nd in Command )
(2nd in Command) (2nd in Command)
(2nd in Command)
E. D. J. O'Brien
E. D. J. O'Brien
R. M. Richard-
R.M.Richardson(j)
L.J. Richardson^.)
L. J. Richardson-
son (s.)
E. D. Brown, IT.®.
R. M. Richardson
Gardiner
E. D. Brown
E.J.Tickel,D.S.O.
R. M. Richardson
EJ.Tickell,D.S.O.
(sp. ser. , S. Africa)
Captains .
E. D. Brown
E. D. Brown
J£. M. B. Gage
/E. M. B. Gage
E. J. Tickell
E.J. Tickell
J. Murray
J. Murray
JE. M. B. Gage
J£. M. B. Gage
D. M. Miller
D. M. Miller
J. Murray
J. Murray
R. G. Brooksbank
R. G. Brooksbank
D. M. Miller
D. M. Miller
W. G. Eley (y.)
W. G. Eley (y.)
R. G. Brooksbank
R. G. Brooksbank R. C. Stephen (y.)
R. C. Stephen (y.)
W. G. Eley
W. G. Eley (y.) : W. Prevost
W. Prevost (s.)
R. C. Stephen, Adj.
/?. C. Stephen, Adj. C. B. Tottenham
C. B. Tottenham
W. Henry
W. Henry
F. R. Lawrence,
F. R. Lawrence,
D.S.O., Adj.
D.S.O., Adj.
H. J. Tilney
T.E.L.H.-Whitson
Lieuts,
W. Prevost
W. Prevost
H. J. Tilney
R. Blackett
C. B. Tottenham
C. B. Tottenham
T.E.L.H.-Whitson
E. J. Jameson
W. Henry
W. Henry
R. Blackett E. P. Phil.-Stow
W. J. Lockett
W. J. Lockett
E. J. Jameson
W. R. Campbell
F. R. Lawrence
F. R. Lawrence
E. P. Phil.-Stow
E. T. L. Wright
H. F. H. Hardy
H. F. H. Hardy
W. R. Campbell
J. B. Walker
H. J. Tilney
H. J. Tilney
E. T. L. Wright
J. G. Browne
T. E. L. Hill- Whit-
T. E. L. Hill-Whit-
J. B. Walker
Hon. H. Grosvenor
son
son
J. G. Browne
B. M. Dawes
R. Blackett
Hon. H. Grosvenor
J. Harvey
B. M. Dawes
C.H.B.P.-Westcar
J. Harvey
G. R. Scott
J. F. Champion
Sec.-Lieuts.
R. Blackett
E. J. Jameson
C.H.B.P.-Westcar
F. E. Lace
E. J. Jameson
E. P. Philipson-
G. R. Scott
T. James
E. P. Philipson-
Stow
J. F. Champion
C. J. Stephen
Stow
F. E. Lace
H. E. Joicey
T. James
J. C. Johnston
C. Persse
A. L. Palmer
C. J. Stephen
V. H. Seeker.
H. E. Joicey
Hon. H. Robertson
Adjutant
R. C. Stephen,
R. C. Stephen,
F. R. Lawrence,
F. R. Lawrence,
Captain
Captain
D.S.O., Capt.
D.S.O., Capt.
Rid.-mas. ,
R. Odium, Hon.
R. Odium, Hon.
R. Odium, Hon.
R. Odium, Hon.
Captain
Captain
Captain
Captain
Qu'rmasfer
F. Mugford, Hon.
F. Mugford, Hon.
F. Mugford, Hon.
A. F. Pridgeon,
Captain
Captain
Captain
Hon. Lieut.
Agents
Messrs. CoxandCo. Messrs.CoxandCo.
Messrs.CoxandCo.
Messrs.CoxandCo.
560 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
LIST OF WARRANT OFFICERS OF THE
HTM (KING'S) HUSSARS
1881 — 1900
SERGEANT-MAJORS
H. A. Pridgeon, ist July 1881.
H. Haines, 3ist December 1889.
A. Smith, ist January 1894.
A. F. Pridgeon, 25th January 1899.
BANDMASTERS
A. Sim, ist July 1881.
R. Foster, 5th December 1883.
H. Hemsley, ist April 1887 (B.M., ist July 1881).
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 561
APPENDIX A
RAMNUGGUR AND CHILLIANWALLAH
RAMNUGGUR
EXTRACTS from the Illustrated London News of
27th January 1849.
Extract from the letter of an officer of the Bengal Horse Artillery, dated
ist December 1848 : —
* There has been a skirmish at a place called Ramnuggur, on the river Ramnuggur.
Chenab, about 40 miles north of Lahore. It was intended for a reconnais-
sance, but circumstances turned it into a cavalry fight, as I will endeavour to
explain to you. Lord Gough, hearing that the enemy had drawn up in force
on the opposite side of the river Chenab, determined to reconnoitre them and
two fords across the river. For this purpose he detached two parties, the first
consisting of the
3rd Light Dragoons, 8th Light Cavalry, Troop of Horse Artillery,
to examine one ford ; the second party consisted of
1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons, Irregular Cavalry,
5th Light Cavalry, Troop of Horse Artillery,
to look at the other ford.
'The force left camp about 3 A.M., 22nd November, and arrived on the
ground about 7 A.M.
' One of the parties was going along steadily as directed, when they came
across the nullah, and seeing a large number of the enemy's cavalry beyond,
Colonel Havelock ordered a charge, and, as the party were crossing the
nullah, the enemy's guns on the opposite side opened on them at about 300
yards' range. The Sikhs had placed their guns in masked batteries, and, as
you may suppose, the sudden discharge took our people by surprise ; neverthe-
less they went on, seeing a large number of the enemy beyond the nullah.
The ground was very heavy and sandy ; a large portion of our cavalry got into
a quicksand, and the horses, being somewhat exhausted by the march over the
heavy ground, were not able to extricate themselves as soon as they might
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562 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
have done. The enemy's infantry were, in the meantime, behind large sand
hillocks, and steadily firing into our men, who were also being fired upon by
the large Sikh guns on the other side of the river.
' The Horse Artillery immediately unlimbered their guns and returned the
fire as well as could be expected from six small guns. The retreat was then
sounded, and in re-crossing the nullah one of our guns, as also two of our
ammunition-wagons, stuck fast in the sand, the poles of the limber and the
horses being shot ; they had, however, previously spiked the gun so as to
render it useless to the enemy. The Commander-in-Chief, hearing the firing,
had ridden up to the spot. Meantime, Colonel Havelock was about to make
another charge at the enemy with the i4th Light Dragoons, but the Com-
mander-in-Chief sent an order by General Cureton, who commanded the
Cavalry Division, to prevent the charge, and in conveying this order the
General was shot through the heart. Colonel Havelock had also fallen.
Colonel Alexander, 5th Cavalry, was shot through the right arm, and has
since had it taken out of the socket. Several officers of the i4th Light
Dragoons were killed and wounded, also several officers of the 5th Light
Cavalry, whose names we have not heard. The gun and ammunition-wagons
were abandoned by order of Lord Gough, as the fire from the enemy's guns
was very severe. The guns on the opposite side of the river, and the portion
of the enemy's force drawn up behind a quicksand, has been a regular trap
into which we have fallen most wofully.'
Reported in the ' Illustrated London News!
'By intelligence from India, dated up to 28th November, from the army of
the Punjaub, Shere Singh with his army was occupying a position on the right
bank of the Ravee,1 whilst Lord Cough's camp was situated about twelve miles
from Ramnuggur, on the left bank. According as our troops advanced under
Lord Gough the enemy were reported in force at several places, but always
evacuated them before they were occupied by us ; they were at length, however,
ascertained to have determined on making a stand at Ramnuggur, and General
Cureton was directed to halt until more troops came up. Brigadier-General
Campbell joined his camp on the i2th November, taking command as senior
officer and bringing up another brigade.
{ Considerable additions to the force of the camp were made during the
five or six days following, and at length the Commander-in-Chief, having
considered that the time had arrived for the commencement of operations,
orders were issued late on the night of the aist November, in the camp of
Brigadier-General Campbell at Saharun, for the troops to parade on the follow-
ing morning at three o'clock in front of the centre of the camp without sound
of bugle, trumpet, or drum ; and a strong detachment marched under the
personal command of the Commander-in-Chief (who had come up from the
1 This, evidently, should be Chenab — (Author).
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headquarters' camp to superintend the proceedings of the morning) at the
appointed time, and reached the left bank of the Chenab near Ramnuggur at
an early hour, in the hope of surprising the detachment of the enemy who were
known to be on the same side. It would appear, however, that these had
early intimation of the movement of the British troops, and had all retired
across except a few stragglers and a picquet which fled, leaving their tents
pitched. The object of the movement on our side was, however, mainly to
ascertain the real strength and position of the enemy, and this was in some
degree effected on clearing Ramnuggur towards the left bank of the river.
'Then it became apparent that their camp was pitched along the right
bank of the river, which was seen to be crowded by thousands of men, whose
white and light-coloured garments strongly contrasted with the bodies of the
British troops to which the eyes of our officers had been for some time past
accustomed. In drawing out their fire to ascertain their real strength in guns,
and pressing, perhaps, rather too zealously in pursuit of those of the fugitives
who appeared to be within reach, while crossing at the ford with water to the
waist, Lieutenant-Colonel Lane's troop of Horse Artillery (2nd of the 3rd
Brigade) got into heavy sand before they were aware of it, and a leading horse
having been shot, it was found when the order came to limber up and retire
that one of the guns could not be moved. The Sikhs were not slow at perceiv-
ing this most inopportune embarrassment, and directed so hot a fire upon the
spot that it was found necessary to abandon the gun, although a light field
battery was brought up to cover it. But the fire of the enemy from guns that
were sheltered, while ours were exposed in an open plain, was so heavy that
nothing could be done beyond scattering a few of the nearest groups of the
enemy and then retiring. The cavalry were ordered to do the same and take
shelter from the enemy's round-shot behind a tope of trees to the left, where
they remained quietly for a time, the infantry being during that interim drawn
up on the right. Some of the enemy being subsequently discovered on the
left bank of the river further down to the left, a large number of our cavalry,
among whom were the 3rd and i4th Light Dragoons, moved down by order to
dislodge them.'
The following letter from an officer, who was an eye-witness of the scene, Extracts of a
graphically describes the interesting details of this brief but sanguinary combat letter.fr°m a"
which cost us so dearly : — the scene.
' CAMP RAMNUGGUR, November 25, 1848.
'On the morning of the 2and inst., at 2 A.M., the orderly-sergeant of the
" E " troop came into my tent at Deeda Singh camp and showed me the order-
book with the following command : — " The troops will parade in marching
order at a quarter before 3 A.M., without sound of trumpet or bugle, and
form up on their respective alarm-posts." The morning was pitch dark when
the order to move forward was given, and before we had advanced a mile,
cavalry, camp followers, artillery, and infantry, were jumbled together. At
564 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
length day broke, order was restored, and a report ran through the columns
that Ramnuggur was in sight. Immediately after, our destination was con-
firmed, and the enemy was stated to be in position in our front. At 7
o'clock A.M. we reached Ramnuggur and saw the enemy and their camp in
the distance. At half-past 7 o'clock the 3rd Light Dragoons, Holmes's
Irregulars, and the Horse Artillery were pushed forward with Her Majesty's
6ist Regiment in skirmishing order ; and we, with the 5th Cavalry and some
Native Infantry, were ordered to halt on the right of the city with the 2nd
Europeans a little on the left rear. A few minutes later the enemy opened
their fire. This continued about an hour, during which time we stood
inactively admiring their shot and shells as they flew through or burst in the
air. By about half-past 8 A.M. our guns had got into position and began
replying to the enemy, when the order came for us to advance, which we did,
and were halted about three-quarters of a mile from where the enemy's picquet
had been. Their picquet-tents were still standing on an entrenched piece of
ground, but their picquet had retired across the river. The round-shot now
began to whistle near us, generally falling short, and the men began to get
excited; when, about 9 o'clock A.M., the order came for us to move more to
our left and get shelter from a tope of trees nearer to and more in front of the
enemy's guns. Here we saw the 3rd Light Dragoons, who were more than a
mile on our left, charging some Sikh cavalry, who, retiring before them,
opened out and dispersed the moment they drew the Third within range of
their batteries, which immediately opened on them. One man was killed and
three wounded by the fire, while several horses suffered. A staff officer sent
by Lord Gough ordered them to retire immediately out of fire, as the guns
were on the other side of the river. While doing so a g-lb. shot struck Captain
Ouvry's l horse, passing clean through him, but the rider fortunately escaped.
In a few moments after the horse was stripped by the Sikh cavalry, who
pressed on their rear, trying again to draw them under fire. During all this
time the round-shot was flying over and through the i4th Light Dragoons,
and, strange to say, doing no harm. A little after n o'clock A.M. the enemy's
cavalry came across the nullah that protected part of their front, and formed
upon the left bank, to the right front of the Fourteenth, in great force, when the
i4th Light Dragoons and 5th Light Cavalry received orders to charge them.
'Before saying anything of this charge, I must try to describe the Sikh
position. The Sikhs to the number of 30,000 men occupied the right bank
of the river Chenab, where they had a strong entrenched camp with several
batteries erected. A little to the right front of Ramnuggur the river formed a
bend ; in it was an island containing a couple of acres of ground, and between
that and the left bank the water was about 30 yards wide, with a precipitous
fall from the left bank of from four to six feet before you got into its bed, which
was in some parts four feet deep. This part is called the nullah, as the main
branch of the river is on the right of the island. It is as nearly as possible in
1 Afterwards Colonel H. A. Ouvry, C.B., gth Lancers.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 565
front of the centre of the Sikh position ; on it were about 4000 men and a
battery of six guns, while the approach to it was swept by a cross-fire from two
batteries on the mainland. Knowing nothing of this position, and deeming the
nullah the river, the Fourteenth, when ordered to charge, galloped on to the
enemy's cavalry, who retired through the nullah on to the island, while the
enemy's batteries opened their fire, and their infantry on the island poured in
their volleys. Nothing daunted, Colonel Havelock cheering led on the first and
second squadrons of the Fourteenth down to the bank, then into the nullah,
crossed it at a gallop, sabred hundreds of the enemy under the most frightful
shower of missiles from their guns and infantry. They then retired a short
distance, formed up, were joined by the other squadrons, and the 5th Light
Cavalry who had crossed a little higher up, and charged again. In this, the second
charge, Colonel Havelock met his death, it was supposed, for he was not seen
or heard of after General Cureton joined them with orders to retire, as, though
the Fourteenth seemed so determined to destroy the enemy, they were utterly
indifferent to their own loss. The Commander-in-Chief having cleared the
left bank of the enemy, did not wish for more. While General Cureton
was giving the order to retire, a matchlock ball struck him in the throat, and
another in the forehead, and thus fell this glorious man, the finest cavalry
officer of the day, at the head of that regiment in which as a private soldier,
under the assumed name of " Roberts," he had commenced his career, and out
of which he received his first commission. The i4th Light Dragoons then
retired in order, formed up, and the roll was called, when 45 men were found
missing and about 50 horses. Of the missing men, 14 were killed, and the
remainder wounded. One of the killed, Sergeant Todd, had his head taken off by
a round-shot. Colonel Havelock has not yet been found ; the last seen of him
was in the second charge, while he was crossing the nullah. His orderly states
that both the Colonel and his horse fell wounded or killed, that he was hurried
on, and he did not see him after. About twelve of the 5th Light Cavalry
suffered, I am told, and one of the first round-shots fired at the charging regiments
took off the arm of Colonel Alexander, who commanded the 5th Light Cavalry.
Nothing could exceed the accuracy of the enemy's fire: their range was
beautifully taken for certain points, showing that they must have discovered
them previous to our advance ; and our artillery officers say they never saw
anything finer than the way their horse artillery were brought up to the edge
of the river and formed up. No nation could exceed them in the rapidity
of their fire. It is said that a Frenchman, late an officer in the Maharajah
Runjeet Singh's service, and Aide-de-Camp to General Avitahile, named
L'Enfant, commands them. No men could act more bravely than the Sikhs.
They faced us the moment we came on them, firing all the time, and when we
did come on them some opened out, and immediately after closed round us,
while others threw themselves on their faces or turned their backs, protected
by a shield from the stroke of the dragoon's sabre, and the moment that was
given turned round, hamstrung the horse and shot the rider; while their
566 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
individual acts of bravery were the admiration of all. Many stood before a
charging squadron and singled out a man, after killing or wounding whom
they themselves were cut down immediately ; while many, before their blows
could take effect, received the point of a sabre and fell in the act of making
a cut.
'Amongst our officers, Captain Gall's personal courage was most con-
spicuous. He took single-handed one Of the enemy's standards, but before
he could get assistance he was knocked over and his right hand nearly severed
from his body ; some of his men, however, rushed to his rescue and saved him
from receiving a mortal wound, though they could not again recover the
standard which he had so hardly fought and suffered for.
f After Captain Gall was knocked over, a young cornet named D'Urban
Blyth rode at the head of the troop, and while charging, saw Lieutenant
M°Mahon fall wounded a little way off and a Sikh rushing forward to kill him.
Cornet Blyth galloped forward, gave point, and sent his blade clean through
the Sikh. On three different occasions afterwards he rushed out from his
troop, and each time in single combat killed his man. Many private soldiers
performed wonders. But I must not omit to mention that after Captain
Fitzgerald fell, Captain Wilmer's troop was passing on their return, when they
saw that he was alive. Captain Wilmer and four troopers dismounted and
succeeded in bringing him in under the most frightful fire. All agree in one
thing, however nobly the Fourteenth gained their laurels in the Peninsula, no
charge they ever made could surpass this in gallantry, and yet no more than
four or five of the officers and men had ever been under fire previously. It is
impossible to say what loss the enemy sustained ; but had the Fourteenth not
been broken by jumping into the nullah, more than half of the regiment must
have been destroyed, so severe was the fire, as all the shot, had they charged
in close order, would have taken effect. I have heretofore omitted saying
anything of Colonel King, as he had little to do beyond assisting to keep the
men together and obey orders, until Colonel Havelock was killed. From the
moment, however, his loss was known, Colonel King took up the command
and ably did he carry out the duties that were entrusted to him. ... To
his watchful care the greater number of the wounded that were brought in owe
their safety. Officers and men agree that his admirable conduct on that
occasion proves him an able successor.
' Lord Gough visited the wounded yesterday, and expressed himself to each
in the kindest terms about his injuries, and with the strongest praise of his
brave conduct.
'As I conclude this we are erecting batteries and expecting to be joined
by Brigadier General Wheeler's force, and two regiments of Eckford's brigade
that remained behind at Lahore.
' The enemy are about being reinforced by Chuttur Singh, who has 40,000
men and about 60 guns with him, and report says they will try to turn our
rear ; but we only wish that, as the men are all in high spirits and determined
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 567
to show them no quarter. The enemy's guns never cease firing, we are
continually having their round-shot bowling into us, but doing little damage.'
Another writer observes : — ' An attempt will doubtless be made to cast Another
some blame upon the Commander-in-Chief for the result of these two affairs, f
but not justly. The facts are that General Cureton ordered in the first instance News.
both movements, and if they had been carried out as he had wished, they
would have been attended with the happiest results, but on both occasions
mistakes in the execution, to a great degree unavoidable, marred the original
plan. In both cases the ardour of our troops was too great. It was a rush
who should get at the enemy first, but it must have been most gratifying to the
Commander-in-Chief to witness the brilliant conduct of the regiments engaged
and the intrepidity with which they were led by their officers.'
CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF RAMNUGGUR
Killed.
' Brigadier-General Cureton, shot through the heart ; Colonel Havelock,
1 4th Light Dragoons, missing, but subsequently found killed; Captain
Fitzgerald, i4th Light Dragoons, killed.
Wounded
'Lieutenant Hardinge, A.D.C., shot through the shoulder; Captain
Scudamore, i4th Dragoons, sabred in the face; Captain Gall, i4th Dragoons,
wounded in the hand; Lieutenant McMahon, i4th Dragoons, shot through the
head ; Lieutenant Chetwynd, spent ball in the side.
' 1 4th Dragoons, 3 privates killed, 9 missing, 23 wounded, 5 contused,
25 horses wounded, 34 horses missing.
' 3rd Light Dragoons, 5 privates wounded.
' 5th Light Cavalry, Quartermaster-Sergeant killed by a round-shot, which
first took off the arm of Colonel Alexander and then contused the foot of
Lieutenant Reilly. Twelve privates killed, 15 privates wounded. Forty horses
killed and wounded.
' 8th Light Cavalry, Subadar-Major killed.
' 1 2th Irregular Cavalry, Captain Holmes wounded.
' Horse Artillery, i private wounded, 2 Syces killed, 4 horses killed.
' Soon after this the Sikh army, which amounted to 30,000 with a park of
heavy artillery, effected a retreat from their position and left the right bank of
the Chenab on 3rd December under Shere Singh. They proceeded along the
mountain chain in the direction of the river Jhelum after remaining for nearly
a fortnight in the presence of our army, which, during the greater part of that
period, was waiting the arrival of reinforcements. It is computed that in the
various affairs which took place on the banks of the Chenab our killed and
568
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
wounded have been about 400, while the loss of the enemy was 4000. By the
latest advices received, dated i8th December, from Bombay, it is stated that
Lord Gough had crossed the Chenab.'
\End of Extracts from the ' Illustrated London News' of i"]th January 1849.]
Extract from
Lord Cough's
despatch.
Extract from
Brigadier-
General C.
Campbell's
despatch.
EXTRACTS FROM OFFICIAL DESPATCHES, ETC.
GENERAL LORD GOUGH, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the army in India,
writes as follows : —
'RAMNUGGUR, November 23, 1848.
' Deeming it necessary to drive the rebel forces at this side the river across,
and to capture any guns they might have had on the left bank, I directed
Brigadier-General Campbell, with an infantry brigade, accompanied by the
cavalry division, and three troops of Horse Artillery under Brigadier-General
Cureton, to proceed during the night of the 2ist from Saharun, four miles in
front of my camp at Nonbulla, to effect this object. I joined the Brigadier at
3 A.M. to witness the operation.
'I witnessed with intense anxiety, but equally intense admiration, a charge
made by Lieutenant-Colonel William Havelock at the head of the i4th King's
Light Dragoons, who, I fear, misconceived the orders he received from the
officer commanding the Cavalry Division, or, from the inequalities of the ground
and the fearful dust occasioned by such a rapid movement, mistook the body
he was instructed to charge, and moved upon and overwhelmed another much
closer to the river, which exposed him to a cross-fire from the enemy's guns.
I never witnessed so brilliant a charge, but I regret to say the loss was con-
siderable, were it only in that of Brigadier-General Cureton, than whom a
better or braver soldier never fell in his country's service. The brave leader
of the 1 4th Light Dragoons, Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, is missing. He
charged into a gole of the enemy and has not since been seen, regretted by
every soldier who witnessed his noble daring. The enemy suffered severely ;
numbers were precipitated into the river and drowned, and a standard was
captured.
' The Goorchurras were more daring than I have before seen them, but the
brilliant charges both of the 3rd and i4th Light Dragoons will have taught
them a lesson they will not readily forget. This was a cavalry affair alone.'
BRIGADIER-GENERAL C. CAMPBELL, C.B.,1 Commanding 4th Division,
writes : —
' RAMNUGGUR, November 27, 1848.
' Captain Warner's and Lieutenant-Colonel Lane's troops of Horse Artillery
were engaged. In withdrawing from the deep and heavy sand under the fire
of the whole of the enemy's artillery, amounting to 28 guns posted on high
1 Afterwards Field-Marshal Lord Clyde, G.C.B., K. C.S.I.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 569
ground overhanging the river on the opposite bank, I regret to say that one gun
and two ammunition-wagons of Colonel Lane's troop got embedded in the heavy
sand and could not be recovered. The enemy observing this immediately
crossed with great confidence the whole of his cavalry at numbers between
3000 and 4000 : they clung to the banks of the river and kept under cover of
the fire of their artillery on the opposite bank.
c This cavalry was charged on separate occasions by Her Majesty's 3rd and
1 4th Light Dragoons, and 5th and 8th regiments of Light Cavalry. His Lord-
ship the Commander-in-Chief was an eye-witness of the brilliant conduct of
these corps and of the intrepid manner in which they were led by their officers.
The enemy were overthrown upon every occasion and fled for shelter to the river-
side to be under the cover and protection of their artillery • but I regret to say
these several defeats of the enemy's cavalry were not effected without much
loss. Brigadier-General Cureton, commanding the cavalry of the army, was
killed while leading a squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons to the support of
the 5th Light Cavalry. I regret also to have to report that Lieutenant-Colonel
Havelock, commanding Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, is reported to
be missing. He was last seen charging the enemy at the head of his noble
regiment, and has not since been heard of.'
The following is an extract from the General Orders of the Commander-in-
Chief in India, dated Camp Ramnuggur, 23rd November 1848: —
' The enemy were signally overthrown on every occasion, and only saved General Lord
from utter annihilation by their flight to the cover of their guns on the opposite p°ugh'iSo H
bank of the river. In the deaths of Brigadier-General C. R. Cureton, C.B., issued after the
commanding Cavalry Division, and Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, K.H., com- affair of
manding i4th (King's) Light Dragoons, as well as Captain J. F. Fitzgerald of RamnuS2ur-
the same noble regiment, the service has sustained a loss which the Commander-
in-Chief is sure the whole army will unite with him in lamenting.'
The following statements were given, almost verbatim, to the author in
answer to his questions by surviving officers of the i4th Light Dragoons who
were present at Ramnuggur.
CAPTAIN R. P. APTHORP, who was Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Four-
teenth at Ramnuggur, says : —
' February 14, 1899.
'I recollect the whole circumstances of the doings of the regiment at
Ramnuggur, as if it were only yesterday it occurred. I have the whole scene
in my mind's eye now. There were three charges.1 We changed our front
twice, as these Sikh goles scampered off before we could get to them, in
different directions.
' It was in the second change of front that Herbert Gall rushed out from
the troop he was commanding to seize a standard of the enemy, and very nearly
1 Captain Apthorp refers to the first advance of Havelock before he changed front the first
time, and he calls that advance a charge. See ante p. 222 ft. and p. 571.
570 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
had his right hand severed off. Some men of his troop rushed after him, but
I, being near, stopped them, as it broke our line of advance. As it was, he
never recovered the entire use of his hand again. It was a gallant act, but a
very indiscreet one. It was Colonel Doherty who brought the regiment out
of action. I never saw any artillery gun on our side of the nullah, and I do
not think there were any. They played long bowls at us from the other side.
What made Lord Gough so impetuous was, that these large goles of Sikh
horsemen, who persisted in remaining on our side of the nullah, although our
artillery had been peppering at them for half an hour, would not disperse, and
merely seemed to get out of the way of the shells. They took care to keep
a long distance off. The 3rd Light Dragoons were sent by Lord Gough to
disperse them (before we were ordered to charge), and they sent them across
the nullah, but they were too wary to follow them over the nullah, and then
the enemy returned to our side again, and this so nettled Lord Gough that he
sent Colonel Cureton to ascertain the reason of the 3rd Dragoons retreating,
and the former was told of the dreadful nullah which separated us from the
main body of the Sikh army ; and when Lord Gough was told this by Cureton
he pooh-poohed it, and told him to order the Fourteenth to advance and go
across the nullah, and of course it was there we lost Colonel Havelock and
Fitzgerald and about fourteen of our men, besides several wounded. On the
other side of the nullah we came up to their guns and the whole force of the
enemy — we were entirely disorganised by the confusion caused by jumping
into the nullah and out of it, and which was lined by sharpshooters under the
taking-off bank. It was, of course, helter-skelter afterwards until we emerged
to our side of the nullah again, and it was some little time before the officers
could restore anything like order as the Sikh horsemen followed us again.
I, being well in the rear trying to halt our men, seeing these fellows coming on
at us (the men generally knowing my voice well), I called out for skirmishers,
and several men responded, and we covered our rear and kept the Sikh horse-
men at bay, and then order was gradually restored. Colonel King was not in
the charge at all. He was ordered to command the squadron which was left
in support when we first advanced. He came up with this squadron as we
were retreating, and it was a nucleus for us to form upon.
' I recollect poor Colonel Havelock telling me that he was going to charge
the enemy with three squadrons, and that he ordered one squadron to be in
reserve to support them, and ordered me to go and find Colonel King and tell
him to take charge of the supporting squadron and move up slowly after us.
I did so. In the meantime Havelock had moved off to the front with the
attacking squadrons, and I had to gallop after them to catch them up. It was
just then that Havelock was changing his front to the left as the Sikhs had
scampered off in that direction. When we got up to them, they, knowing
they were in a line for the easiest part for crossing the nullah, made direct for
it, and we saw them scamper down the banks ; therefore, Havelock had to
change his front again to follow them over the nullah, so there must have
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 571
been three distinct charges. There was no doubt that poor Havelock was
killed at the nullah, as on recrossing, some of the men saw his charger (a grey
horse) lying in the nullah, and one or two of the men were going to dismount
and lead him back, but being near them, and on looking round I saw some
of the Sikhs following us, I told the men there was no time to get hold of
the Colonel's charger, but to mount and get to the rear as fast as they could.
With regard to Cornet Blyth, he had not long joined us, and I recollect that
after his sabring four or five of the enemy, and saving McMahon's life, I dis-
missed him at once from any further sword-drill.'
As to the question of whether there were two or three charges, Captain
Apthorp says : — c I do not think it signifies much whether there were three
charges or two. I considered Colonel Havelock's first advance was a charge, as he
went direct for a large gole of the enemy's horsemen, but I was not with them,
having been sent by Colonel Havelock to find Colonel King to direct him to take
charge of the supporting squadron, and when I got up to the attacking squadrons
Colonel Havelock was changing front to the left as the Sikh horsemen veered
off in that direction. All I can recollect is that I saw the two charges, and we
had to gallop a great pace to catch up the enemy, they having got well ahead
of us while we were changing front. It was in this charge that poor Fitzgerald
and M got surrounded by some of the straggling enemy (as we came up
to them) slipping through our squadron intervals, and their horses being
blown, got into the rear. Poor Fitzgerald must have ridden eighteen to twenty
stone with all his accoutrements on (he always rode Cape chargers), and
M was at that time no light-weight. You may rest quite satisfied that
there was no charge by Colonel King's supporting squadron, as they met us
as we returned over the nullah, and we re-formed our straggling squadrons on
them, got our usual strength of skirmishers out, and then made an orderly
retreat. The Sikhs then stopped from following us.
' With regard to the important point — that Havelock had orders through
Cureton to charge over the nullah — I cannot corroborate it. What gave
colour to it in my mind was, that Colonel Havelock (when he came up to me
and directed me to find Colonel King, and give him directions to take charge
of the supporting squadron) said, " I have just seen Cureton, and from what
he says I expect to get immediate orders to charge to the front, as Lord Gough
was displeased at the old 3rd Light Dragoons not pursuing the Sikhs further
over the nullah."
'We all thought that this nullah was the course of the Chenab, and that
there was a ford over it, until Colonel White told Cureton it was a dry nullah
with very steep banks, and he did not consider it expedient to cross it with his
regiment, as the Sikhs were in great force on the other side and with a lot of
guns. I have no doubt Colonel Havelock thought this almost tantamount to
an order, as he (Colonel Havelock) said Cureton told him that Lord Gough
said he did not understand a dry nullah stopping cavalry. There is no doubt
Lord Gough thought better of this, as when poor Colonel Cureton was killed
572 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
by a musket-shot he was galloping to stop us from going over the nullah, Lord
Gough having noticed Havelock forming up the squadrons for a final attack
over the nullah. As for Sir Charles Gough, we know he was very biassed in
his statements about the affair as well as Chillianwallah. It has always
appeared to me that it was Sir Charles Cough's aim all the way through to
screen Lord Gough ; for although all must admit that the latter was as brave
an officer as ever drew sword, yet he was totally void of discretion as a
commander. We have only to look at his tactics at Chillianwallah, where
the 24th Regiment was decimated on account of his persisting that they
should advance straight to their front, and attack and capture the Sikh guns,
although he had been told that the Sikh gunners had the exact range for grape-
shot, where they could pepper and annihilate the poor Twenty-fourth, and this
was the result ; but nothing could check Lord Cough's ardour when he had
made up his mind, and all his reply to some of his cautious generals was :
" Tell them to take the Sikh guns with the ' cold steel,' " of course meaning
their bayonets.'
VISCOUNT CHETWYND, who, as Lieutenant the Honourable R. W. Chetwynd,
was present with the Fourteenth at Ramnuggur, has given the following facts
in reply to inquiries : —
' The facts as to the squadrons of the Fourteenth at Ramnuggur are :
Colonel Havelock went off with the ist and 2nd squadrons in open column of
troops, left in front, and made his first attack to his front, with the result that
the ist squadron, in which I was, got immediately into great confusion. The
order for increasing the front I did not hear, and was afterwards told it was to
form squadron on the move.
'The 4th squadron, led by Captain Scudamore, received some order
from a staff officer, the result of which was that Scudamore, after an inde-
pendent charge of his own, joined Havelock's second charge. Scudamore's
wound, mentioned in the newspaper, was received in guarding his face from
a cut.
'The 3rd squadron, led by Captain Wilmer, we met as we were retiring, a
mob (we, not Wilmer's squadron). My recollection is that I saw Colonel
King with the yd squadron, but would not state it without reserve. I have
no recollection of ever hearing of this squadron charging, and do not believe
they did. The story mentioned of Blyth having saved McMahon is exactly
what I understood at the time. He also disposed of two or three more. The
story of the sergeant's head being taken off by a round-shot is exactly as Blyth,
who saw it happen, described it to me, Havelock's body was not recovered
till after we had crossed the Chenab in pursuit of the retreating Sikhs. Have-
lock certainly survived his first attack and led off the three squadrons (ist,
2nd, and 4th) for his second. I saw him in front of the line. Doherty was
the senior officer in the three squadrons retiring from Havelock's second
attack. I remember hearing him call out for Havelock. These squadrons
were quite broken up.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 573
'The first attack (that of the two squadrons, ist and 2nd) was, I imagine,
pretty much a charge of the 2nd, the ist following them in great confusion.
I was afterwards told Havelock ordered increase of front from troop to
squadron. I did not hear the order, and thought it was not repeated. It is
possible Havelock did not give time for the increase of front, and that our left
troop rushed ahead before we in the right troop could get into squadron.
There was no interval between the first and second attack, which latter was
made by the three squadrons, ist, 2nd, and 4th, in line. The ist, I think,
outflanked the Sikh left.
( As to the Sikh guns, they, I believe, were on the other side of the river ;
anyhow I saw nothing of them. They opened at once when Havelock moved
off with the right wing. Their shot flew over our heads in the rear troop. I
saw one round-shot take a rear-rank man in the rear troop very soon after
moving off. This troop lost four killed. Another of the four I saw hit by
a matchlock, the same volley that hit me, apparently from an ambuscade on
our right.
' As to the three charges Apthorp speaks of, there were three if you include
Scudamore's with the 4th squadron on his way to join the right wing under
Havelock. I do not see how Havelock could have charged twice to his front
without the rear of the column getting up to him. When I emerged from the
dust and confusion, the Colonel was in front of the three squadrons forming
line. I can distinctly tell who led the ist and 2nd squadrons at Ramnuggur :
Doherty led the ist and Goddard the 2nd; Wilmer and Scudamore led the
3rd and 4th both at Ramnuggur and Chillianwallah, and, I fully believe, in the
order here given. At Chillianwallah, Goddard led the ist and Thompson
the 2nd; Goddard's troop ("H") changed squadrons with the "D," Garratt's.'
CHILLIANWALLAH
The mishap which occurred to Pope's Cavalry Brigade at the battle of
Chillianwallah has by some been attributed to panic, and to this the very best
troops in the world are sometimes subject. On this occasion, however, there
appears to have been another very potent cause for failure in the faulty tactics
displayed by the Brigadier himself. He appears to have utterly disregarded
all recognised rules of cavalry leading by deploying the whole of his nine
squadrons of cavalry in one single line without any supports whatever.
Cavalry in attack requires due supports to follow up an advantage or retrieve
a check; it also requires a reserve or point to rally on. The jungly and
obstructive nature of the ground was wholly unsuited for such an extended
front as that of nine squadrons of cavalry in one line ; and to add to the
difficulty and confusion of advancing in presence of the enemy in such formation,
under such circumstances, the fire of his own Horse Artillery guns was masked
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Extract from
Lord Gough's
despatch,
1 6th January
1849.
by the Brigadier bringing his squadrons in front of them and overlapping them
at a critical moment. Such flagrant mismanagement courted disaster and is
quite enough to account for the sequel. Thackwell's narrative of the second
Sikh War of 1848-49 gives many interesting particulars about the Fourteenth
and the battle of Chillianwallah. It completely vindicates the character of
Lieutenant-Colonel King, and proves that the i4th Light Dragoons were by
no means so much to blame as has generally been believed.
'The day after the action, a court of inquiry into the conduct of the
regiment was held by Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, with closed doors,
and from what transpired, the result was most satisfactory to that much-abused
but brave body of men.' l
Thackwell's Narrative of the Second Sikh War (p. 143, etc.) states that
Brigadier Pope, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Indian Native Cavalry,
was quite unable to mount his horse without assistance at the time he was
commanding a brigade of cavalry at the battle of Chillianwallah ; also that it
was asserted by some that the officer in command did give the order ' Threes
About ' for the purpose of placing the Horse Artillery in possession of a clear
front, but if this was his object ' Threes Right ' was the proper word of com-
mand, unless the Cavalry Brigade was parallel to the interval between Major-
General Sir Walter Gilbert's Division and the Horse Artillery. The wound
received by Brigadier Pope was a sword-cut on the head.
The following is the reference to the affair which appeared in Lord Gough's
despatch, dated Camp Chillianwallah, i6th January 1849 : —
' The brigade of cavalry under Brigadier Pope was not, I regret to say, so
successful. Either by some order or misapprehension of an order they got
into much confusion, hampered the fine brigade of Horse Artillery which,
while getting into action against a body of the enemy's cavalry that was coming
down upon them, had their horses separated from their guns by the false
movements of our cavalry, and, notwithstanding the heroic conduct of the
gunners, four of those guns were disabled to an extent which rendered their
withdrawal at the moment impossible. The moment the artillery was
extricated and the cavalry re-formed, a few rounds put to flight the enemy that
had occasioned this confusion. With this exception the conduct of the troops
generally was most exemplary.'
The late General C. W. Thompson and Viscount Chetwynd have written
an article in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, published in
October 1895, which was a reply to an article in the same journal which was
written by General Sir Charles Gough, V.C., G.C.B., and published in March
1895, and as the former article gives the true and authentic account of what
happened at Chillianwallah, it is reproduced verbatim in these pages, so that
all interested in the regiment may know exactly what these two officers saw
with their own eyes on the occasion in question.
1 Thackwell's Narrative of the Second Sikh War 0/" 1848-49 (1851), p. 142.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 575
EXTRACT from the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution,
October 1895, Vol. xxxix., No. 212, pp. 1021-26.
By GENERAL C. W. THOMPSON, Colonel, i4th (King's) Hussars, and
VISCOUNT CHETWYND, late Lieutenant, i4th Light Dragoons.
Sir Charles Cough's account of the battle of Chillianwallah, in the last
March number of the R.U.S.I. Journal, has stirred the memories of some
survivors of the i4th Light Dragoons, who are anxious that the whole truth
should be known of the strange mishap which befell Pope's cavalry brigade on
that occasion.
After standing dismounted for some time in column during the afternoon
of the 1 3th January 1849, listening to the heavy firing on our left, but
unmolested by the enemy, the brigade was ordered to mount and deploy,
which it did deliberately, two squadrons of the Qth Lancers under Major
(afterwards Sir) Hope Grant on the extreme right, then three squadrons of
Native cavalry in the centre, with four squadrons of the i4th Light Dragoons
on the extreme left of the brigade — nine squadrons in all — standing as above
stated and not chequered by wings in the manner depicted at p. 241 of Sir
Charles Gough's account. As commanding the 2nd squadron of the
Fourteenth (the 7th from the right of the general line of the brigade), I
had a good view to front and flanks, and can attest that, to the best of my
belief and recollection, the whole of the Native cavalry were on our right,
forming the centre of the brigade line. The Fourteenth were on the left of
the brigade from the first, and remained so throughout the day. Having
previously drawn swords, the brigade was now ordered to advance at a trot,
without a skirmisher or ' scout ' in front, or a man in support or reserve in rear,
through broken, jungly ground, where some of the enemy's horsemen were
seen to loiter, watching our movements. Brigadier Pope himself led the line
in front of the Native cavalry, forming the centre by which we had been
ordered to dress and regulate our pace, when insensibly its ' trot ' dwindled to
a ' walk,' and then came to a dead halt at the sight of a few Sikh horsemen
peering over the bushes. Of course the flanks of the brigade had to do the
same, being guided by the fluctuations of the centre which were not always
clearly visible in the thick jungle, but were conformed to more by sound than
by sight. I then saw Colonel King, commanding the i4th Light Dragoons,
gallop to the Brigadier in front, energetically pointing with his sword towards
the enemy's position and evidently urging an attack, which the other seemed
unable to make up his mind to order. The Sikhs seeing the hesitation, a
handful of their horsemen, some forty or fifty in a lump, charged boldly into
the thick of the Native cavalry, who instantly turned with the cry 'threes
about,' and disappeared for the rest of the day — at least I saw none of them.
This word of command, uttered authoritatively, was unfortunately repeated
576 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
by the remaining squadrons in succession, but was no sooner found to be
a mistake (as it might have been at a field-day), than the ' halt ' and ' rally ' were
sounded amid redoubled shouts of 'halt!' from the officers, and the European
Lancers and Dragoons were found in an open space like a ploughed field in
the jungle facing to the front, where Lord Gough and staff shortly after rode
by and were received with 'carried swords.' Why the order was not -im-
mediately given to advance and recover the two abandoned guns I never
knew ; but the Brigadier had been badly wounded in the retreat (not in the
advance, as stated by Sir Charles Gough), the men were naturally disappointed
by the unexpected failure, and perhaps it was prudent not to attempt too much
at the time. Among the sights and sounds of the rallying troops, which have
never faded from my recollection for the last forty-six years, I was much struck
by the speech of a dragoon who, reining up his horse in line with the others,
exclaimed : ' Ah, poor old Billy Havelock, if you had been here this would not
have happened,' referring not to his immediate commanding officer — who had
done all that a good soldier could do under the circumstances — but to the
general handling of the brigade, which every one could see was pitiable in the
extreme. Those who remember El chico bianco, ' the fair boy ' of Napier's
History of the Peninsular War^ and witnessed the gallantry with which he
' rode into the jaws of death ' at the head of his regiment at Ramnuggur a few
weeks before, will appreciate the force of the dragoon's homely remark.
Colonel William Havelock, K.H., was the elder brother of Sir Henry Have-
lock, the hero of Lucknow, whose statue stands in Trafalgar Square, and at
the time of his death in November 1848, was much the more distinguished
of the two.
Of the Honourable East India Company's (not Royal) Horse Artillery
attached to the brigade I remember little, and do not think that they fired a
shot during the advance. Following uselessly in rear, it was rumoured at the
time that when the artillery officers complained to the Brigadier that he was
masking their guns in such a way as to prevent their opening fire, nothing was
done to rectify this essentially false position — not even the simple expedient
of dragging the guns into the squadron intervals, where they would have been
comparatively safe, if unable to fire. In rear they were and in rear they
remained until the line turned, when they turned with it, adding much to the
confusion by blocking the way and some of them sticking fast and upsetting
among the bushes, where they were captured by the enemy.
As illustrations of the scrambling nature of the mtlee, where so much was
left to individual action and so little to superior command, I may mention that
during one of our short rallies, followed by the enemy, Lieutenant Augustus
John Cureton, a gallant youth of eighteen years of age, son of a gallant father,
Brigadier-General Cureton, killed at Ramnuggur a few weeks previously, was
seen to turn back and ride alone into the jungle, from which his horse shortly
returned riderless ; and I saw Cureton's body brought into camp a fortnight
later, recognisable only by the sleeve of a regimental jacket on one arm.
1 Vol. v. p. 139.
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In the course of the fight in the jungle several hand-to-hand encounters
took place, not all to the advantage of the enemy. Major Steuart, of the
Fourteenth, overtook a Sikh horseman belabouring an artillery officer
(Captain Huish, I believe), and blew him out of the saddle en passant by
a snap pistol-shot in the breast. Being immediately attacked by another
Sikh, sword in hand, the major had not time to return his pistol (a long single-
barrelled old-fashioned 'horse pistol'), but guarded with the barrel, from
which the native's sabre glanced off, inflicting a slight cut inside the right
arm, and Steuart came into camp bleeding profusely, but not seriously.
His antagonist fortunately did not renew the attack, but rode away into
the jungle.
One of our troop-sergeant-majors seeing a ghorchurra (Sikh horseman)
conveniently in front gave him a prod in the back, where the point of the
sword became so firmly fixed that the exertions of neither party, pulling
different ways, could separate them until the dragoon's sword-knot broke
and the Sikh rode off with the sword sticking in his back, apparently little
the worse. Probably the presence of chain armour under a cotton-quilted
jacket or mirzai, as generally worn by natives in cold weather, might
account for this singular occurence.
In his Reflections on Chillianwallah, Sir Charles Gough is mistaken in
stating (p. 245) that 'the charge [of Pope's brigade] was badly delivered,
and, instead of increasing the pace, the line was brought almost to a trot
at the moment of collision.' There was, in fact, no charge and no collision
except the partial one above related, and on this point I can speak decidedly
from my position as leader of the second squadron of the Fourteenth
enabling me to take an uninterrupted view of the front as far as the centre,
by which we were ordered to dress.
Had the ' charge ' or even the ' gallop ' been sounded all would have been
well, for the men were in high spirits, and on drawing swords and trotting
they fully ' expected the charge to follow (though there was hardly any
enemy visible in front among the bushes of the broken jungle), when the
gradual decrease of pace and sudden halt in the centre struck the first
vague note of suspicion that something was wrong somewhere, though no
one knew what it was nor where. And upon this the cry of ' threes about '
arose from the Native cavalry, was passed down the line from squadron to
squadron, and the catastrophe took place. The experience of the two
squadrons of the gth Lancers on the extreme right appears to have been
much the same, as related by their commander, Major (afterwards Sir) Hope
Grant, in his official report of the isth of January, given in his Lift,
vol. i. pp. 136-138.
'The Qth Lancers,' he writes, 'were dressing upon the 6th [Native] Light
Cavalry, I think. . . . There were some few of the enemy now seen in
our front, but nothing in the force to stop any body of Europeans. . . .
The two squadrons were going along with the line steadily, and no
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578 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
hesitation was evinced; on the contrary, the flank-men were engaged with
some of the enemy, and doing their duty, when the whole line checked
and went about from the left, and my squadrons, certainly without a word
from me, turned round too.'
It will be observed that Major Grant states above that 'the whole line
checked and went about from the left] i.e. his left, which doubtless was the
case. My experience as second squadron leader of the Fourteenth when
in line, was that the movement or ' wave ' of retreat, together with the
apparently authoritative words of command, came from the right, which
would show that the disorder originated at some intermediate point between
the two British regiments, viz. at or near the centre of the brigade line,
held by the Native cavalry, as really was the case. Sir Charles Gough
labours to disprove this by placing the Fourteenth at or near the centre
(where they never were), and, speaking of the whole brigade as though
the troops composing it were all of the same stamp, concealing the
individuality of the Native cavalry under the generic title of ' British.'
'Now occurred what, happily, is a rare event in the annals of British
cavalry,' he says — as if the Native cavalry of that day had any right to be
considered British beyond the fact of being armed, mounted, and paid
by the East India Company ; or as if they were not on this occasion the
authors of the mischief.
At that time, forty years ago, as Sir Charles will perhaps remember,
there was no love lost between the Queen's and Company's services, and
the mishap of Pope's brigade (himself a Company's officer) was hailed
with something not unlike satisfaction by the local troops, as involving the
reputation of two regiments of Peninsular fame, and cloaking the short-
comings of their own favourite Native cavalry.
In corroboration of the above account, I am happy to possess the following
letter from the Serrefile of the 2nd squadron, the Hon. R. W. (now
Viscount) Chetwynd, whose reminiscences in great measure confirm and
supplement my own. With one witness in front and another in rear of
the line, as he and I were then placed, at different points of view, yet at
no great distance from each other, it is hardly possible to suppose that
anything of importance could escape our observation. May the truth of
our evidence tend to clear up the mystery of this ' inexplicable ' defeat and
place the saddle of responsibility ' on the right horse ' !
C. W. THOMPSON, General,
Colonel of the i^th (Kings) Hussars.
July 5, 1895.
MY DEAR THOMPSON, — Having been the Serrefile of the squadron of
the 1 4th Light Dragoons, which you led at Chillianwallah, I should like
to state to you, as the present full colonel of the regiment, my impression
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 579
of the account by Sir Charles Gough of Pope's brigade (including the
Fourteenth), published in the March number of the Journal of the Royal
United Service Institution.
Sir Charles begins by saying that the Brigadier ' was to blame for his
manner of handling his cavalry. Without consideration he ordered the
nine squadrons under his immediate command to advance to the attack
in one long line, without support or reserve, thereby preventing the guns
from opening fire.' So far Sir Charles is, I believe, perfectly correct, but
now begin his mistakes. The first I shall mention is, as to the wounding
of the Brigadier. I believe it occurred in the retreat, and that he was
still leading the line in person when it turned; in which case the Brigadier's
being wounded would have no part in breaking down the advance, as Sir
Charles suggests it had. I now come to another mistake, of greater importance.
Sir Charles says : ' the charge was badly delivered, and instead of increasing
the pace, the line was brought almost to a trot at the moment of collision,'
clearly implying that the order to gallop had been given and acted on.
A complete misstatement from beginning to end, as regards the Fourteenth,
for they received no order whatever to gallop, and consequently continued at
the trot. As for delivering a charge, or any collision, I saw nothing of the
kind. There was only one increase of pace in the Fourteenth from the walk
to the trot. The reception of the order for that by your squadron was to me a
fine and impressive sight.
As to the going about, Sir Charles speaks of some ' wholly inexplicable '
cause. This ' inexplicable ' cause was, in your squadron, exactly what the
Duke of Wellington stated it to have been in the House of Lords : ' a word of
command from some unauthorised person.' I heard the word and obeyed it,
as did the men in front of me, and so we began trotting back again. Sir
Charles further describes the going about as commencing in ' the centre
regiment' and 'about the centre of the brigade,' having previously placed the
Fourteenth between two wings of Native cavalry. He is, I believe, right in
saying that the going about commenced in the centre, but wrong in placing the
Fourteenth there, they being, I believe, on the left of the brigade. This has
its importance, but not equal to that of what follows.
Proceeding to the retreat, Sir Charles refers to it twice, in one place
speaking of a ' portion of the brigade,' in the other of the whole. He means,
I think, the same thing in both places, viz. the nine squadrons forming the
line led by the Brigadier, a part of the brigade being detached to cover the
flank. These troops Sir Charles describes as ' breaking into a reckless stampede,
galloping to the rear, and riding right down upon the ten guns . . . upsetting
and disabling them.' Now, any one deriving his information from this descrip-
tion would certainly understand that these troops, including the Fourteenth,
turned, went off at a gallop, and rode straight into the guns, upsetting and
disabling them. Very different from what I saw in your squadron.
580 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
The squadron came about as already described, there being, as far as I
could see just previously, only scattered horsemen in their front. Presently,
as we were trotting to the rear, I heard a counter-order, which checked us, but
was not obeyed ; in my opinion, as I will explain, from the want of something
to halt upon. I shortly saw ahead two of the ten guns Sir Charles describes as
being ridden over and upset. The sight of them at once steadied us, because
it supplied what was wanting — a common halting-point. There was every
appearance of a halt upon the guns, when, as we were approaching with our
attention fixed on them, off they started, with a fatal effect upon us. But this
is not riding over guns and upsetting them ; on the contrary, they upset us.
As regards these two guns then, Sir Charles's description is, beyond a doubt,
very unjust to the Fourteenth, even if — which is quite possible — they afterwards
came to grief.
Further than that, it is, I think, not unreasonable to look upon what I saw
in your squadron as some indication of the morale of the other three at the
same time. They may or may not have had assistance, such as we had in the
counter-order and seeing the guns in time. Some such assistance was wanted ;
as the Duke of Wellington pithily expressed it, ' a movement in retreat is not
a movement in advance.'
In my opinion, founded on the incident of the guns, it was the fact of the
Fourteenth being unsupported that made the going about fatal, and occasioned
the loss of the guns and artillerymen. Supporting troops in the place of those
guns would have stopped the mischief at once.
Those unsupported guns I take to have been in great danger, in any event,
from the moment the unsupported cavalry advanced in front of them, and to
have been the victims of bad generalship, as the Fourteenth themselves were.
I object then to this narrative of Sir Charles's, as unjust to the Fourteenth,
from its misstatements of fact, both as to the advance and the retreat, and also
from its general character — a short dry statement that the brigade was badly
commanded, without a word to connect the results with this cause. Positively,
the word ' support' only occurs once in Sir Charles's narrative; the matter of
leadership is then put aside, and the alleged results are attributed to the cavalry
alone, as though the guns and the leadership had no part in them.
Whether such an account from a general officer of Sir Charles Cough's
services should remain uncorrected is a question I leave to you, as the full
Colonel of the Fourteenth. If you determine to communicate with the Editor
of the Journal on the subject, you are welcome to send him this letter if you
think fit. — Yours sincerely, CHETWYND,
Late Lieutenant, i^th Light Dragoons.
To GENERAL THOMPSON,
Colonel of tfie i^th Hussars.
Monument at Some two and a half years after these events took place the Officers of the
1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons caused a monument to be erected at Maidstone
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 581
to perpetuate the memory of their fallen comrades. Maidstone was the place
where the depot of the regiment had been stationed during the years the Four-
teenth were in India, hence many of the officers and men were well known to
the inhabitants of the town and its neighbourhood. Mr. R. Westmacott, junior,
was the sculptor who designed and carried out the memorial. The monument
stands eight feet high and four feet wide. It was placed in the All Saints'
Collegiate Church at Maidstone in June 1851, and bears the following
inscription : —
Sacred to the memory of
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WlLLIAM HAVELOCK, K.H.
He served in Portugal, Spain, and France, at Quatre Bras, where he was
wounded, and at Waterloo. He fell at the head of his regiment,
charging the Sikhs, at Ramnuggur, on the Chenab, on the
22nd November 1848, aged 56 years.
CAPTAIN JOHN FOSTER FITZGERALD.
He died on the 26th November 1848, of wounds received in action at
Ramnuggur, aged 28 years.
LIEUTENANT AUGUSTUS JOHN CURETON.
Killed at the battle of Chillianwallah on the i3th of January 1849,
aged 1 8 years.
LIEUTENANT AMBROSE LLOYD.
Killed at the battle of Goojerat on the 2ist of February 1849,
aged 26 years.
SERGEANT JOHN HARWOOD,
CORPORAL WILLIAM PARKER TODD,
and Privates
JOHN ALDERTON, WILLIAM ALPINE, RICHARD BAGG, WILLIAM BRAZEUR,
CHARLES Fox, JOHN HATTON, RICHARD HUNGERFORD, BENJAMIN
JENNINGS, JAMES RAINES, CHARLES TUTTELL, JOHN WARD, GEORGE
WILLIAMS, killed on the 22nd November 1848, and GEORGE ATKINS,
DAVID EVANS, GEORGE TOOKEY, killed on the i3th January 1849.
The Officers of the i4th (King's) Light Dragoons
erect this monument to
their Comrades
Who fell in the Campaign of the Punjaub.
' Be thou faithful unto death.'
Rev. n. 10.
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
APPENDIX B
Despatches of EXTRACTS
Major - General
Sir Hugh Rose, HUGH ROSE,
K.C,B.,etc.
Extracts from
Jhansi
despatches,
dated Camp
Mote, 30th
April 1858.
Flying camps
of cavalry,
under Majors
Scudamore
and Gall,
1 4th Light
Dragoons.
FROM DESPATCHES of MAJOR-GENERAL SIR
K.C.B., BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR R. NAPIER,
K.C.B., and other Officers, relative to JHANSI, KOONCH,
MUNDESOR, RATHGUR, GARRAKOTA, BETWA, LOHARI,
CALPEE, GWALIOR, MORAR, JOWRA-ALIPORE, and RANODE.
JHANSI DESPATCHES
From MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B., Commanding
Central India Field Force, to the CHIEF OF THE STAFF.
CAMP MOTE, April 30, 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report for the information of His Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief the operations of my force against the fortress and
fortified city of Jhansi, on the 2oth ultimo. The 2nd Brigade, under my
command, arrived at Limra, one day's march from Jhansi. My ist Brigade
had not yet joined me from Chanderi. The same day I sent Brigadier C.
Steuart, with the cavalry and artillery, as follows, to invest Jhansi, viz. —
Six guns Horse Artillery.
1 4th Light Dragoons, 325 rank and file.
3rd Light Cavalry, 140 „ „ „
Hyderabad Contingent, 476 sabres.
I arrived the 2ist ultimo with the remainder of my brigade before Jhansi.
The picquets of the cavalry sent on the day before had sabred about 100
armed men, Bundeelas, endeavouring to enter Jhansi, having been summoned
by the Ranee to defend it
I established seven flying camps of cavalry as an investing force round
Jhansi, giving to Major Scudamore half a troop of Horse Artillery, and later
to Major Gall two p-pounders. These camps detached to the front outposts
and vedettes, which watched and prevented all issue from the city day and
night. Each camp, on any attempt being made to force its line, was to call on
the other for help. I gave directions also that the roads from the city should
be obstructed by trenches and abattis.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 583
I had made arrangements on the 3oth March for storming, but the general
action of the Betwa on ist April with the so-called 'army of the Peishwa,'
which advanced across the Betwa to relieve it, caused the assault to be
deferred.
On the 2nd instant I issued a Division Order for the assault of the defences
of the city wall, of which a copy with a plan of attack was furnished to the
officers in command. I have the honour to enclose copies of reports from
Brigadier Stuart, commanding my ist Brigade, and Brigadier C. Steuart, com- ist Brigade
manding my 2nd Brigade, of the operations of their respective columns against "nder,.
T, . TIT, •, * • • i ^- Bngadier
J hansi. Whilst engaged in the town I received a report from the officer Stuart ;
commanding one of the Hyderabad Cavalry flying camps that a large body of 2nd Brigade
the enemy, flying from the town, had tried to force his picquet ; that a few had Brigadier
succeeded, but that the main body, from 350 to 500 strong, had been driven C. Steuart,
back, and had occupied a high and rocky hill to the west of the fort ; that
he had surrounded the hill with cavalry till reinforcements were sent. I
immediately ordered out from the camps of the two brigades the available
troops of all arms against the hill. The enclosed report from Major Gall, i4th
Light Dragoons, shows how satisfactorily these rebels were disposed of.
Lieutenant Park was killed whilst gallantly leading on a party of the 24th
Bombay Native Infantry along the ridge of the hill. The Ranee's father,
Mammo Sahib, was amongst the rebels. He was wounded on the hill and
captured some days afterwards, and hanged at the Tokim Bagh. The next
day Brigadier Stuart and myself occupied the rest of the city by a combined
movement united by Major Gall, who spiritedly scaled the bastion iron gate Jhansi cap-
from his flying camp and captured the gun that was there and threw it down ^redj' lthg
the ramparts. The following morning a wounded Mahratta ectanca of the
Ranee was sent into me from Captain Abbott's flying camp. He stated that
the Ranee, accompanied by 310 Velaitees and 25 sowars, fled that night from
the fort ; that after leaving it they had been headed back by one of the
picquets, when the party and the Ranee separated, she herself taking to the
right with a few sowars in the direction of the intended flight to Bandin.
The observatory also telegraphed: 'Enemy escaping to the north-east.' I Pursuit of the
immediately sent off strong detachments of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, f^"^
3rd Light Cavalry, and Hyderabad Cavalry, to pursue, with guns to support Dragoons and
them, as it was said Tantia Topee had sent a force to meet her. I also sent Native
Brigadier Steuart with cavalry to watch the fords of the Betwa.
In sight of Bandin, 21 miles from Jhansi, the cavalry came in view of the
irregular horse sent to meet the Ranee, which separated, probably with a view
to mislead her pursuers as to her real course. Lieutenant Dowker, Hyderabad
Cavalry, was sent by Captain Forbes through the town of Bandin, whilst he,
with the 3rd Light Cavalry and i4th Light Dragoons, passed it by the left. In
the town, Lieutenant Dowker saw traces of the Ranee's hasty flight, and her
tent, in which was an unfinished breakfast. On the other side of the town he
came up with and cut up 40 of the enemy, consisting of Rohillas and Bengalee
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Two hundred
rebels killed
by a party of
1 4th Light
Dragoons.
Five thousand
rebels killed at
Jhansi.
Officers of
1 4th Light
Dragoons
specially men-
tioned for
gallant conduct
and good
irregular cavalry. Lieutenant Dowker was gaining fast on the Ranee, who with
four attendants was seen escaping on a grey horse, when he was dismounted
by a severe wound and obliged to give up the pursuit. The Ranee's flight was
the signal for a general retreat. Early in the morning I caused the outskirts
of the city to be scoured with cavalry and infantry. It will give some idea of
the destruction of insurgents which ensued when a party of the i4th Light
Dragoons alone killed 200 in one patrol. The rebels, who were chiefly
Velaitees and Pathans, generally sold their lives as dearly as they could,
fighting to the last with their usual dexterity and firmness.
I beg leave to bring to the favourable notice of the Commander-in-Chief
the conduct of the troops under my command in the siege, investment, and
capture of Jhansi. They had to contend against an enemy more than double
their numbers behind formidable fortifications, who defended themselves after-
wards from house to house in a spacious city, often under the fire of the fort,
then later in the suburbs, and in very difficult ground outside the walls. The
investing cavalry force were, day and night, for seventeen days on arduous
duty, the men not taking their clothes off, the horses saddled and bridled up
at night. The nature of the defence and the strictness of the investment gave
rise to continual and fierce combats, for the rebels, having no hope, sought to
sell their lives as dearly as possible. But the discipline and gallant spirit of
the troops enabled them to overcome difficulties and opposition of every sort,
to take the fortified city of Jhansi by storming, subduing the strongest fortress
in Central India, and killing 5000 of its rebel garrison. According to the first
reports which I received, 3000 rebels were killed, but those received since the
withdrawal of the seven flying camps make the loss of the enemy amount to
above 5000 killed. Native accounts received by Brigadier Wheeler at Saugor
make the loss of rebels to amount to more than 5000. I beg to recommend
to His Excellency for gallant and good service in investing the fortress and city
of Jhansi, Major Scudamore, i4th Light Dragoons, the senior officer in
command of flying camps; Major Gall, H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons; Major
Forbes, C.B., commanding 3rd Cavalry; Captain Abbott and Lieutenant
Dowker, Hyderabad Cavalry. I beg leave to state the obligations I am under
to the following officers for the services which they have rendered me during
the siege operations and capture of Jhansi : —
Brigadier Stuart, commanding xst Brigade.
Brigadier C. Steuart, C.B., commanding 2nd Brigade.
Major Scudamore, commanding H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, &c.
Captain Todd, Major of Brigade, &C.1
I have, &c.
(Signed) HUGH ROSE, Major-General,
Commanding Central India Field Force.
1 Other names, not connected with the Fourteenth, are omitted above.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 585
No. 236.
From BRIGADIER C. STEUART, C.B., i4th Light Dragoons, com-
manding 2nd Brigade C.I.F.Force, to the ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-
GENERAL, C.I.F.Force.
SIR, — In obedience to orders received through you, the brigade under my
command moved in two columns on the morning of the 3rd April to the
assault of the town of Jhansi.
Captain Todd, Brigade-Major, and Captain Leckie, Deputy-Assistant
Quartermaster-General of the 2nd Brigade, on this as on every previous
opportunity have afforded me every assistance, etc. etc. — I have, etc.,
(Signed) C. STEUART, Commanding 2nd Brigade C.I.F.Force.
Total return of ordnance captured in the town of Jhansi on the 3rd Return of
April 1858 by the force under the command of Major-General Sir Hugh f^"^^
Rose, K.C.B. : — 10 brass guns ; i brass howitzer; 15 iron guns. 3rd April 1858.'
Captured in the fort of Jhansi on 5th April 1858 : — 8 iron guns ; i
brass gun.
(Signed) THOS. S. HAGGARD, Lieutenant,
Commissary of Ordnance, C.I.F.Force.
KOONCH DESPATCHES
From MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B., to GENERAL
SIR WILLIAM MANSFIELD, K.C.B., Chief of the Staff.
CAMP GOLOWLEE, May 24, 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report to you for the information of His Extract from
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief that the approach of Brigadier Smith's ^patches
Brigade from Rajputana to Goona having secured Jhansi from attack by Camp Golow-
Kotah and Bundelcund rebels, I recalled Lieutenant-Colonel Lowth, com- le8e'8May 24>
manding 86th Regiment, whom I had detached with a column to watch the
road from Jhansi to Goona, and I marched with the ist Brigade of my force
from Jhansi on the 25th ultimo on Calpee. I left at Jhansi for its garrison the
force detailed below, forming part of the and Brigade, viz. : —
Headquarter wing, 3rd Bombay European Regiment.
Eight companies 24th Bombay Native Infantry.
Hyderabad Cavalry, 100 sabres.
Three guns Bhoopal Artillery.
Half company Sappers and Miners
586
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Koonch.
Lieutenant-
Colonel Gall
reconnoitres
the enemy at
Koonch.
I left there also Brigadier C. Steuart of the i4th Light Dragoons, with the
remainder of his brigade, with orders to bring up to me the 7ist Regiment
and two troops of the 3rd Light Cavalry. I joined Major Gall's force at
Pooch, 16 miles from Koonch, on ist May. I had the honour to report on
the i yth inst. the movements of this officer's movable column, as well as
those of Major Orr's field force. I received information from Sir Robert
Hamilton and Major Gall, whom I had detached along the road from Jhansi
to Calpee with a flying column to watch the enemy and obtain information of
their movements, that the Sepoy garrison of Calpee of all arms, reinforced by
500 Velaitees under the Ranee of Jhansi, cavalry from Kotah, and guns and
troops from disaffected Rajahs — the whole under the command of Tantia
Topee — had occupied Koonch, and thrown up entrenchments, which they had
armed, to defend the roads leading to the town from Jhansi, and that they were
determined to make a vigorous opposition at Koonch to my advance against
Calpee. All the accounts agreed that the rebels were strong in cavalry, con-
sisting of mutineers from Bengal, regular and irregular regiments. Koonch is an
open town, but is difficult to attack because it is surrounded by woods, gardens,
and temples with high walls round them, every one of which is a defence.
My left, the ist Brigade, was resting with its left flank on the village of
Nagapoore ; my centre, the 2nd Brigade, under Brigadier C. Steuart, was in
the village of Choman ; my right, Major Orr's force, in front of the village of
Ormree. I gave the orders that as soon as the three columns had taken up
the position which I have mentioned they were to advance against the town
and endeavour to effect a lodgement in it. When we came within sight of
Koonch we perceived vedettes and strong picquets of the enemy's cavalry
outside the wood. They conformed to our flank movement, and posted
themselves nearly opposite to Nagapoore. A few rounds of shrapnel from
Captain Lightfoot's guns emptied some of their saddles, and they disappeared
into the wood.
The rebel infantry now showed in force behind a long wall to our front
and in the wood to the left of it. I had marched the ist Brigade a distance
of 14 miles from Lohari that morning for the purpose of surprising
the enemy by the flank movement, and not giving them time to alter their
plan of attack. I ordered the men's dinners to be cooked for them, to rest
and refresh them, and meantime battered the wall with the two i8-pounders
and the 8-inch howitzer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gall galloped gallantly into the wood to reconnoitre the
enemy. Although he was within half musket range of them they did not fire
at him, because the shelling from our Horse Artillery had caused confusion in
their ranks. He ascertained that the infantry to the left had retreated further
into the wood, having in their rear a large body of cavalry ; that the siege-guns
had driven the enemy from the cover of the wall, but that some way in rear
of it was posted a large body of infantry with elephants. I determined to
drive the enemy out of the wood, gardens, and temples surrounding Koonch,
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 587
and then to storm the town and a dilapidated mud fort on a rising ground, a
strong position which was opposite to the right of the ist Brigade.
I effected the operation by throwing the left wing of Her Majesty's 86th Battle of
Regiment, under Major Stuart, and the whole of the 25th Bengal Native Infantry,
under Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson, into skirmishing order, their flanks sup-
ported by the half-troop Horse Artillery and a troop of Her Majesty's i4th Light
Dragoons, and Captain Ommaney's battery and two troops of Her Majesty's Four troops
1 4th Light Dragoons. I left Captain Woolcombe's battery, one troop i4th j^* ^5
Light Dragoons, and the right wing 86th Regiment in a second line in reserve, engaged in
under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lowth. The rapidity and precision Ist Brig^6-
with which this formation was simultaneously made must have surprised the
sepoys. The first line advanced, notwithstanding the artillery and musketry
fire, through the whole north part of the town and took the fort. The troop
1 4th Light Dragoons made a circuit to their left, took all the obstacles to
their front, and then brought their left shoulders forward. Just as the 86th
Regiment and myself with the 25th were about to enter the town, Brigadier
C. Steuart, 2nd Brigade, observed that a large number of the rebel infantry, Movements of
strongly posted in cultivated ground, threatened the right of the line of attack 2nd B"gade-
of his brigade. He moved up Captain Field's battery and Captains Thomp- Two troops
son's and Gordon's troops of i4th Light Dragoons and one troop of 3rd j^1 ^j^ l
Regiment Hyderabad Cavalry to dislodge them. The enemy held the position charge the
obstinately, and it was not till a portion of the infantry of the 2nd Brigade enemy-
moved down on them from another direction that they retreated, when Captain
Gordon, whom I beg to recommend to His Excellency for his conduct on this Captain
occasion, with his troop and the cavalry above mentioned, charged and broke Gordon
* specially men-
the mass, cutting up several of them, but topes of trees favoured the escape tioned.
of the remainder. The 2nd Brigade, under Brigadier Steuart, owing to some
misconception on his part, did not effect a lodgment in the town, but moving
round to the south of it, his artillery and cavalry joined in the pursuit.
The cavalry of both brigades and Major Orr's force (except a party left to Cavalry of ist
watch the Jaloun road and my rear), one troop of Horse Artillery, Captain g"f J^es sent
Field's guns and the four guns No. 18 Light Field Battery, went in pursuit. in pursuit.
The pursuit was commenced by Captain William McMahon's squadron
and Captain Blyth's troop i4th Light Dragoons charging, the first the right
and the latter the left of the enemy's skirmishers. A piece of very heavy
ploughed land caused a check in the pace, under a heavy fire, of Captain
M°Mahon's squadron ; but the heavy ground was not broad, the squadron got
through it, Captain McMahon leading the way, and cut to pieces the enemy, who
fought fiercely to the last. Captain McMahon received three sabre-wounds,
but he continued the pursuit to the last. I beg to recommend him for his
gallant conduct and unvarying zeal and attention to his duties. On the centre
the Horse Artillery opened a hot fire, and the cavalry charged the skirmishers.
The enemy now threw back the extreme right of their skirmishers so as to
enfilade our line of pursuit. I directed Captain Prettejohn to form line to the
588
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Captains
McMahon,
Prettejohn,
and Blyth
specially
brought to
notice for
gallant
conduct.
Nine guns, etc.
captured.
Casualties of
1 4th Light
Dragoons at
Koonch.
Casualties
owing to
sunstroke.
left, charge and cut off the enfilading skirmishers, which he did effectually.
This officer, the horses of his own troop being knocked up, placed himself
with well-timed zeal at the head of a troop with fresh horses which was without
an officer, and continued the pursuit with them to the end. I beg to submit
his name to the favourable consideration of His Excellency, as well as the
names of Captain Blyth, i4th Light Dragoons, and Captain Abbott, command-
ing 3rd Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, who each very gallantly charged and
captured a gun from the retreating enemy under a heavy fire. In the course
of the pursuit (up to seven miles from Koonch) more guns and ammunition
were captured by the cavalry.
The sun, fatigue, and scarcity of water told on my artillery and cavalry, a
great part of whom were Europeans, and had been marching and engaged for
1 6 hours, so I marched them back at sunset to Koonch.
The enemy must have lost about 500 or 600 men in this action and pursuit.
Nine guns and quantities of good English ammunition and stores furnished to
the Gwalior Contingent were captured. Tantia Topee had disappeared at
Koonch as rapidly as he had done at the Betwa, leaving to its fate at the most
critical moment the force which he had called into existence under the pompous
title of ' The Army of the Peishwa.'
Brigadier C. Steuart, C.B., commanding 2nd Brigade, mentions that his
staff, Captain Todd, Major of Brigade, and Captain Leckie, Deputy- Assistant
Quartermaster-General, afforded him every assistance. Enclosed are returns
of killed and wounded, and of the guns and ordnance stores captured in the
action. — I have, etc. (Signed) HUGH ROSE, Major-General^
Commanding C. I. Field Force.
ABSTRACT OF CASUALTIES (i4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS).
Left wing. — 5 men wounded.
Right wing. — 4 men killed ; i man died of his wounds.
Wounded.
Captain William McMahon, wounded severely (sword-cut in right hand and
leg) ; 1 2 men wounded.
Horses of right wing. — 3 killed ; 6 wounded ; 4 missing.
Captain Need, Lieutenant Travers, and 16 men, struck down by the sun,
of whom 2 men died.
Extracts from
Mundesor
despatch.
No. 10.
MUNDESOR DESPATCH
No. 47 0/1858.
' 'London Gazette? \\th March 1858.
The Right Honourable the Governor in Council has very great satisfaction
in publishing for the information of the army the following report made to His
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 589
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, by Brigadier Stuart, commanding the
Malwa Field Force (now ist Brigade Nerbudda Field Force), of his successful
operations against the insurgents assembled near Mundesor during four days,
from the 2 ist to the 24th November last : —
No. ii.
No. 201 0/1857.
EXTRACTS from the REPORT of BRIGADIER STUART, commanding
the Malwa Field Force, and published in the London Gazette,
dated nth March 1858.
'The rebel enemy at Mundesor, hearing of our approach, had posted
picquets entirely covering the country over which we were advancing, and
observing our picquets thrown out, they mustered in some force outside the
walls of the town, and appeared inclined to attack. I, however, contented
myself with reinforcing the picquets, and leaving the whole charge of the front
to Major Robertson, 25th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry. The field
officer of the day returned to camp about 3 o'clock P.M. I received intimation
from him that the enemy were advancing in force, and threatened both our
flanks and centre at the same time. I accordingly moved out to meet them.
They advanced steadily, with banners flying, and appeared in great numbers.
On approaching our right front they were most gallantly charged by Lieutenant Lieutenant
Dew, Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, who with some of his men occupied ^.e*» '4th
that ground as a picquet. Captain Orr, commanding 3rd Regiment Cavalry Dragoons,
Hyderabad Contingent, supported Lieutenant Dew, and the enemy were driven charges with
back with great loss, and before our guns, which had quickly moved up, could IS pic^ue
open upon them. The attack on our centre was repulsed by a few rounds of
our artillery, whilst that on our left was successfully met by the Field Force
under Major Orr. The enemy having been thus driven back at all points, were
pursued for some distance— in fact until they nearly reached the walls of the
town. Just previous to the camp being marked out intelligence came that Major Gall
Heera Sing's baggage had just left the village of Goraria, on the Neemuch W1'£ l^nT"6
road, and a party of cavalry, about 300, were observed in a north-westerly Dragoons and
direction ; so Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, left wing, under Major Gall, Hyderabad
and the ist and 4th Regiments Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, galloped off in clfargePa body
pursuit, the 3rd Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent remaining as a reserve. They of the enemy
caught up the enemy about two miles south of Peeplia, and after cutting up about 200
about 200 of them, returned to camp.
On the 23rd November my line advanced, covered by skirmishers. The
enemy's infantry, with banners flying (many of them green), moved down to
meet us through the intermediate fields of high jowarree, and their guns opened
fire. I immediately halted my line and replied to the fire with Captains
590
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Another en-
gagement with
the rebels at
Mundesor.
Lieutenant
Martin, with
artillery escort
1 4th Light
Dragoons,
charged
enemy's guns,
and was
severely
wounded.
Enemy at-
tacked ourrear;
Lieutenant
Redmayne
charged and
was killed.
Lieutenant
Leith specially
mentioned.
Captain Gall
specially
mentioned.
Hungerford and Woolcombe's batteries, at a range of about 900 yards. After
a few rounds I again advanced the line and permitted Captain Hungerford to
move his half-battery to a position on our right front, from which he could
enfilade the enemy. After an advance of about 300 yards our line was again
halted, and firing resumed, that from both batteries being very effective. A
most gallant charge was then made on the enemy's guns by the escort of Her
Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons attached to Captain Hungerford, led by
Lieutenant Martin, who found, however, that the position was still very strongly
held by the enemy's infantry, and was compelled to retire, he himself being
very severely wounded. Captain Hungerford's half-battery was again advanced
to within 100 yards, and after a round or two of grape, the guns were at once
charged and captured, the enemy flying in great numbers into the village to
the right. I learned that during the afternoon, when we were hotly engaged in
the front, a strong body of the enemy from Mundesor attacked our rear, and
endeavoured to carry off the siege-train, baggage, etc. They were, however,
most gallantly repulsed on every occasion. In one of these attacks I regret to
say that Lieutenant Redmayne, Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, was killed
while most gallantly leading his men against the enemy. Notwithstanding the
many attempts made by the enemy to press upon and harass our rear, it gives
me great satisfaction to be able to state that not a particle of baggage was lost
nor a follower injured. On this occasion Lieutenant Leith, commanding a
squadron i4th Light Dragoons, appears to have done good service. A perusal
of the report made by Captain Gall, commanding left wing Her Majesty's i4th
Light Dragoons, will convey to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief some
idea of the good service performed by all under his command. I most fully
concur in Captain Gall's report,1 and beg to recommend to the consideration
of His Excellency all the officers and men mentioned by him. Of Captain Gall
himself I must in justice add, that a more able, zealous, and hard-working officer
I never met with, nor one more worthy of distinction.
Casualties of
1 4th Light
Dragoons at
Mundesor,
2 ist to 24th
Nov. 1857.
No. 12.
Nominal roll of officers and men of the i4th Light Dragoons killed and
wounded in the engagements with the insurgents before and in the vicinity of
Mundesor from 2ist to 24th November 1857.
Killed. — Lieutenant Redmayne.
Wounded. — Lieutenant James Leith.
Lieutenant L. Gowan.
Lieutenant C. Martin.
Regimental Sergeant-Major T. Clark.
Troop Sergeant-Major S. Whittaker.
Privates Cooper, Harris, O'Neill, Remmington, and Buchanan.
1 This Report is not available. See Despatches.
THE UTH (KING'S) HUSSARS 591
RATHGUR DESPATCH
EXTRACT from the REPORTS of MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE,
K.C.B., commanding Central India Field Force, and published in
the London Gazette, dated nth May 1858, relating to Rathgur.
No. 2.
I moved in the order of march which I always adopted when near the rebels, Extracts from
as a precaution against their system of surprises, that is, a line of flankers of Rathgur
H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons on each side of the road 50 yards in front of
the leading file of the advance-guards, which, with a file of irregulars, has
charge of the guide ; another line of irregular cavalry, 1 50 yards in echelon, in
front of the outward flanks of the Fourteenth, and, should thick jungle border
the road, a company of infantry, in extended order on each side of it, to
support the flanks of the men of the i4th Light Dragoons and the advance-
guard. By this means all dangerous ground is searched, surprises are almost
impossible, and spies lying concealed at a great distance from the road are
frequently seized. I followed with four guns of the Horse Artillery and a troop of
H.M.'s 1 4th Light Dragoons in support under Lieutenant-Colonel Turnbull,
ordering the rest of my force to follow, with the exception of Captain Hare's
infantry and guns, which remained at the ford to prevent the rear being cut
off. I was not at all sure that my camps with the siege artillery and numerous
stores, left with a small force at Rathgur under Brigadier Steuart, might not be
attacked during my absence, as they had been before. I therefore halted in the
village only for a short time in order to rest the troops, who had been on duty
for at least five days, and marched back the same night to Rathgur, as they
had been marching or engaged 15 hours. The enemy's loss was severe — they
themselves state it to be from 400 to 500, which is not surprising, as they were
exposed to a well-directed fire for a length of time. Amant Sing, their ablest
military leader, as well as a nephew of Fazil Mahomed Khan, were killed, and
the Rajah of Banpore was wounded. The i4th Light Dragoons had one horse
killed.
GARRAKOTA DESPATCHES (Extracts)
No. 6.
CAMP KOOMEERI, March 9, 1858.
' . . . However, I ought to add that even if the Paunch Ghat had been occu-
pied, it would have been quite impossible to have invested completely Garrakota
with a force of my numbers, which, strictly speaking, was only sufficiently strong
to guard its camp and work the field and siege artillery. My force was more than
usually weak, as, in order to protect Saugor, in my absence I had left there a
troop of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons and two companies of the 24th Regiment
Bombay Native Infantry. I had also sent the 3151 and 42nd Bengal Native
Infantry to Koray to guard Saugor from the possibility of an attack from the
592 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Captain Hare north. I have observed that nothing alarms the rebels more than a move to
Need^Sa"1 cut off their retreat ! sent off immediately Captain Hare with a half-troop of
troop of i4th Horse Artillery, a troop of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons (under Captain Need),
Light Dra- an(j a troOp of the Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry in pursuit of the rebels, by a
70 to 100 route which, from information I had received, I thought would enable them to
rebels at the cut (n^o tnejr line of retreat. They had, as I supposed, made a round to the
south, and then turned northwards towards Shaghur. Captain Hare came up
with the rear of the rebels as they had just crossed the river Beas, at the
village of Beas.1 The river was not practicable for guns. Captain Hare there-
fore sent the troop of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, under Captain Need, and
the Hyderabad Cavalry across the river after the enemy. They cut up 70 or
i oo of them, of whom the greater part were mutineers of the 5 2 nd and other native
regiments. They had all abundance of ammunition and copper caps. Captain
Captain Need Hare speaks very highly of the conduct on this occasion of Captain Need and
specially ^is troOp He describes Captain Need as a ' good and dashing officer,' and
notice for adds, 'he killed with his own hands five of the rebels, of whom three were
gallant con- sepoys, and pursued the rebels with his gallant troop till dark.' I beg to
ductatGarra- j A * • mi j* T- 11 II/-I-TT rt.-
kota. recommend Captain Need to your Excellency, as well as Captain Hare for his
intelligence and activity in pursuing and coming up with the enemy.
EXTRACTS from the London Gazette, published 3ist May 1858.
No. 23.
The ADJUTANT-GENERAL of the Army to the SECRETARY to
Government Secret Department, Bombay.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
HEADQUARTERS, MAHABLESHWAR,
loth April 1858.
No. 140.
SIR, — In continuation of the letter from this department (No. 2701) under
date of the 2Qth ultimo, transmitting a despatch from Major-General Sir Hugh
Rose, K.C.B., commanding Central India Field Force, dated Koomeeri, 9th
idem, I am desired by the Commander-in-Chief to request you will bring to
the notice of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council the favourable
mention made by the Major-General of the under-mentioned officers in the
affair with the insurgents, which resulted in the evacuation of the strong fortress
of Garrakota : — Lieutenant-Colonel Liddell, commanding 3rd European Regi-
ment; Captain Lightfoot, commanding No. 18 Light Field Battery; Captain
Hare, Hyderabad Contingent; Captain Need, H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons,
etc. etc.
His lordship in Council will doubtless observe that Major-General Sir
Hugh Rose, K.C.B., has particularly noted the conduct of Captains Hare and
Need and Lieutenant Sturt, and His Excellency therefore solicits that the Right
1 Or Bias (Malleson).
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 593
Honourable the Governor in Council will accord to them, as also to the other
officers, the approbation they have so well deserved. — I have, etc.
(Signed) EDWARD GREEN, Colonel,
Adjictant-General of the Army.
BETWA DESPATCH Extracts
from Betwa
(Published in the London Gazette, loth August 1858.) despatch.
No. i.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B., commanding Central India
Field Force, to the ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Bombay Army.
CAMP POOCH, April 30, 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report to you, for the information of His Action of the
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India, that on the ist April the forces
under my orders fought a general action with the so-called army of the Peishwa,
which attempted to relieve Jhansi while I was besieging it, and gained a com-
plete victory over it, pursuing two miles beyond the river Betwa, taking 18 guns, Eighteen guns
of which one was an i8-pounder, one an 8-inch mortar, two i2-pounders, and caPtured-
two English g-pounders, and killing upwards of 1500 rebels. For some time
past Sir Robert Hamilton had given me information that Tantia Topee, a
relative and the agent of Nana Sahib, had been collecting and organising a
large body of troops in the neighbourhood of Mhow and Nowgong, in Bundel-
cund,1 which was called 'the Army of the Peishwa,' and had displayed the
standard of that abolished authority. After the fall of Chanderi2 this
army was reinforced by the numerous rebel troops, sepoys from Calpee and
Bundeelas, who had besieged and taken it. Towards the end of last month I
received constantly reports that the force, estimated at 20,000 or 25,000 men,
with 20 or 30 guns, was advancing against me. On the 3oth ultimo, Sir Robert
Hamilton informed me that its main body had arrived at Burra Saugor, about
three miles from the Betwa, would cross that river during the night and attack
me next morning. The enemy crossed the Raj pore, the upper ford, in great
numbers on the 3oth March, preceded by an advance-guard of Velaitees, and
took up after sunset a position in order of battle opposite the rear of my
2nd Brigade.
The details below show how weak I was compared with the enemy : —
Artillery — 3 siege guns; 16 light field guns.
1 4th Light Dragoons, 243 rank and file. Two hundred
Hyderabad Cavalry, 207 sabres. "eVc?*"*1"6'
86th Regiment, 208 rank and file. i4th Light
3rd Bombay European Regiment, 226 rank and file. Dragoons en-
24th Bombay Native Infantry, 298 ,, ,, Betwa.a
25th Bombay Native Infantry, 400 ,, ,,
1 ' Bandalkand' (Malleson). 2 ' Chandairee ' in original despatch.
2 P
594 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I sent Major On with a party of his cavalry along the road to the Betwa to
watch the enemy's movements.
I drew up my force across the road from the Betwa, half a mile from my
camp. On the right flank of my first line, the 2nd Brigade, I placed Lieutenant
Clark's Hyderabad Horse, a troop i4th Light Dragoons, and four guns Horse
Artillery; in the centre, detachments of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry
and 3rd Europeans, three heavy guns and detachments Hyderabad Infantry ;
on the left flank, Captain Lightfoot's battery and two troops i4th Light
Dragoons.
The second line, my ist Brigade, was in contiguous columns at quarter
distance, consisting of a weak troop i4th Light Dragoons on the right, and
Hyderabad Cavalry on the left flank, in the centre Her Majesty's 86th
Regiment, Captain Wbolcombe's battery of 6-pounders, and Captain
Ommaney's battery of 9-pounders, with detachments of the 2 5th Bombay
Native Infantry.
I threw out picquets and lines of vedettes of the i4th Light Dragoons and
Hyderabad Cavalry well to my front and flanks. The Velaitees' outposts called
out during the night that they were very numerous, that we were very few,
that in the morning they would finish us off! My force was not in position till
long after dark. Both ourselves and the enemy slept on our arms opposite
each other.
Hearing that the enemy were crossing in large numbers at the lower, the
Kolwar ford, with the object of turning my left flank and forcing their way
along the Burragong road, through Major Scudamore's flying camp into Jhansi,
I detached Brigadier Stuart, in the middle of the night, with the ist Brigade
along the Burragong road, about eight miles to the village of Burragong, close
to the river Betwa, where he could oppose and outflank the enemy, who had
crossed by the ford above the village. The departure of the ist Brigade left
me without a second line. I was therefore obliged to withdraw the detach-
ments of the 24th Native Infantry from the first line, and make a second line
of them. The enemy, before daybreak, covered by a cloud of skirmishers,
advanced against me. My outposts retired steadily, closing to each flank.
Shortly after the enemy opened a very heavy artillery, musket, and matchlock
fire on my line from the whole of his front, to which my batteries answered
steadily. The enemy were in rear of a rising ground. I ordered my first line
of infantry to lie down, the troop of Horse Artillery to take ground diagonally
to the right and enfilade the enemy's left flank. In this movement a round-shot
broke the wheel of a Horse Artillery gun. Captain Lightfoot took up an
advanced position to his left front, which made the fire of his battery much
more efficacious. \Vhilst the enemy were suffering from the fire of the troop
and battery I directed Captain Prettejohn, i4th Light Dragoons, to charge
with his troop, supported by Captain McMahon, i4th Light Dragoons, with
his troop, on the enemy's right flank, and I charged myself on their left with
Captain Need's troop, i4th Light Dragoons, supported by a strong troop of
THE 14x11 (KING'S) HUSSARS 595
Hyderabad Cavalry. Both attacks succeeded, throwing the whole of the Captain Prette-
enemy's first line into confusion and forcing them to retire. John's, Captain
McMahon s,
I beg to do justice to Captain Need's troop : they charged with steady and Captain
gallantry on the enemy's left, which was composed of the best rebel troops, the Need's troops
Velaitees and sepoys, who, throwing themselves back on the right and resting LightDragoons
the flanks of their new line four or five deep on the rocky knolls, received the charge success-
charge with a heavy fire of musketry. We broke through the dense line, which fully'
flung itself amongst the rocks, and bringing our right shoulders forward took
the front line in reverse and routed it. I believe I may say that what Captain
Need's troop did on this occasion was equal to breaking a square of infantry,
and the result was most successful, because the charge turned the enemy's
position and decided in a great measure the fate of the day.
I have the honour to recommend to His Excellency's favourable considera- Captain Need
tion Captain Need and his devoted troop, and Lieutenant Leith, who saved sp^Hy
Captain Need's life, for which I have ventured to recommend him for the Lieutenant'
' Victoria Cross.' Leith recom-
The enemy's right gave way before the squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons, yfc. '
under Captain Prettejohn, reached them; he pursued and cut up several of Captain Prette-
them. I moved forward the whole of the artillery and cavalry in pursuit. John's squadron
Severe combats occurred between the pursuing cavalry and the fugitives, who charses enemy-
fought with desperation.
I ordered two troops of the i4th Light Dragoons and the Hyderabad Two troops of
Cavalry across the Betwa. The enemy kept up a heavy fire on us as we crossed ^ Light
the ford and ascended the steep road leading up the opposite bank. The i4th pursue across
Light Dragoons and Hyderabad Cavalry gallantly surmounted all opposition the Betwa-
and sabred the rebels who still held their ground.
About a mile and a half from the Betwa the 1 2-pounder, being the eighteenth Eighteen guns
and last gun of the rebel army, was captured. Two standards also were and 2 standards
captured.
Horses and men being completely exhausted by incessant marching and
fighting during the last forty-eight hours, and being now nine miles from
Jhansi, I marched the troops back to camp.
I beg leave to bring to the favourable notice of the Commander-in-Chief
the conduct of the force under my command, which, without relaxing in the
least the arduous siege and investment of a very strong fort and fortified city,
garrisoned by 10,000 desperate men, fought, with the few numbers left in camp,
a grand action with a relieving army, beat and pursued them nine miles, killing Fifteen
1500 of them, and taking from them artillery, stores, and ammunition. The hundred of the
•L . , • • c • enemy killed,
officers whom circumstances called prominently into action, and who, profiting
by the opportunity, did valuable service, were Brigadier Stuart and the officers
whom he mentions — Lieutenant-Colonel Turnbull, Bombay Horse Artillery;
Captain Lightfoot, Bombay Artillery; Captain Need, i4th Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant Leith, i4th Light Dragoons, etc. etc. Sergeant Gardiner, i4th
Light Dragoons, attacked and killed a cavalry soldier as well as two armed
596
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Sergeant
Gardiner,
1 4th Light
Dragoons,
brought to
notice.
Captain
Prettejohn
mentioned.
men on foot. His gallant conduct at Dhar had been previously honourably
mentioned. The conduct of the men of the i4th Light Dragoons was so
uniformly good that their commanding officer finds it difficult to bring any
particular case of good conduct to notice. I am much indebted to the following
officers for their zeal and assistance to me during the action, to Major Orr,
commanding Hyderabad Contingent Field Force; Captain Prettejohn, com-
manding 1 4th Light Dragoons; Captain Hare, commanding Regiment Hyderabad
Force, and Lieutenant Haggard, Commissary of Ordnance in command of the
siege-train ; as also to my Staff — Captain Macdonald, Assistant Quartermaster-
General; Captain Wood, Assistant Adjutant-General; Captain Rose, Rifle
Brigade, my Aide-de Camp, and Lieutenant Lyster, 72nd Bengal Native
Infantry, my Interpreter. — I have, etc.
(Signed) HUGH ROSE, Major-General,
Commanding Central India Field Force.
EXTRACTS from Return of Killed and Wounded of the Central India
Field Force during the engagement with the enemy on the ist
April 1858 on the Betwa.
Casualties of
1 4th Light
Dragoons on
ist April 1858
at the battle
of the Betwa.
HER MAJESTY'S I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS.
Killed — 5 men; n horses.
Wounded — 24 men; 1 6 horses.
Total casualties
in force.
Names of the killed and wounded : —
Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas Clark, .
Sergeant John Myers,
Private Thomas Ransom, . *
Walter Roberts,
,, Cornelius Gray,
„ Leonard, ....
Lance-Sergeant William Roxby,
Private R. Barker, . .
„ J. Leigh, .
„ W. Watkin, . .
Sergeant Thomas Bowen and 9 privates,
„ Wm. Parkins and 5 privates,
Private J. Waite, *
„ J. Byott, . W
„ Richard Baker,
Total casualties of the force engaged — 15 killed;
slightly wounded.
» »
killed,
severely wounded.
» »
slightly wounded,
killed.
slightly wounded,
severely wounded,
dangerously wounded.
66 wounded.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 597
Return of Horses killed and wounded of the Central India Field Force Casualties
on ist April 1858. amone horscs-
ist troop Horse Artillery, . .2 killed.
Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, . n killed; 16 wounded.
Total of the forces engaged, . 13 killed; 1 6 wounded.
(Signed) A. H. WOOD, Captain,
Assistant Adjutant- Genera^ Central India Field Force.
LOHARI DESPATCHES
EXTRACTS from the London Gazette, 3 ist August 1858. Extracts from
JVa T Lohari
despatches.
General Orders by the Governor-General of India, Military Department.
No. 1980/1858.
ALLAHABAD, June 5, 1858.
The Right Honourable the Governor-General is pleased to direct the Reference to
publication of the following despatch from the Deputy Adjutant-General of the \1}e-Re[1°r1t1 of
Army, No. 373A, dated 3131 May 1858, forwarding one from Major-General i4th Light'
Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., enclosing a report from Major R. H. Gall1 of Her Dragoons, of
Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, of his capture of the fort of Lohari on the0ffortp0f
and May. Lohari.
The Governor-General desires to express the entire approval of the gallant
conduct of the officers and men engaged under Major Gall in this affair, and
his cordial appreciation of the merits of Major Gall himself, both in the present
affair and on all occasions on which he has been employed.
No. 2.
The DEPUTY ADJUTANT-GENERAL of the Army, to the SECRETARY
to the Government of India.
No. 373A.
HEADQUARTERS CAMP, FUTTEHGURH,
May 31, 1858.
SIR, — By desire of the Commander-in-Chief, I have the honour to transmit
for the information of the Right Honourable the Governor-General a copy of a
despatch2 from Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.B., dated iyth instant,
enclosing a report from Major R. H. Gall of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, of
his capture of the fort of Lohari on the 2nd idem.
1 Report not available. See Despatches.
• Published in London Gazette, July 28, 1858, p. 3543.
598
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
His Excellency heartily concurs in the praise bestowed by the Major-
General upon Major Gall and the officers and men engaged in this gallant
affair. — I have, etc. (Signed) H. W. NORMAN, Major,
Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army.
Lieutenant
(now Major)
Leith, I4th
Light Dra-
goons, gazetted
to V.C., 24th
December
1858.
BETWA DESPATCH (Additional}
EXTRACT from the London Gazette, published 24th December 1858.
VICTORIA CROSS.
1 4th Light Dragoons, now of the
6th Dragoons.
Lieutenant, now Brevet-Major,
James Leith.
For conspicuous bravery at Betwa on the ist April 1858, in having charged
alone and rescued Captain Need of the same regiment when surrounded by a
large number of rebel infantry.
Date of Act of Bravery, ist April 1858.
Despatch from Major-General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B., dated 28th
April 1858.
Extracts from
Calpee des-
patches, dated
Gwalior, 22nd
June 1858.
Difficulties to
which the
troops were
exposed on
march from
Jhnnsi to
Calpee, May
1858.
CALPEE DESPATCHES
From MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B., Commanding F.D.A.
and Field Forces, to MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MANSFIELD,
K.C.B., Chief of the Staff of the Army in India.
GWALIOR, i-ind June 1858.
SIR, — In reporting to you for the information of the Commander-in-Chief
in India my operations against Calpee, it is my duty, in justice to the unvarying
devotion and discipline of the troops under my command, to state the new and
very serious difficulties which beset them after leaving Jhansi. They had to
contend not only against the rebel army, fighting as usual with all the advantages
on their side of very superior numbers and knowledge of the ground, but they had
to encounter also a new antagonist, a Bengal sun at its maximum of heat. This
formidable ally of the rebel cause was more dangerous than the rebels them-
selves : its summer blaze made havoc amongst troops, especially Europeans,
who, already exhausted by months of over fatigue, and want of sleep by con-
tinued night watchings and night marches, were often exposed to its rays,
manoeuvring or fighting, as at Koonch, from sunrise to sunset. At Koonch
the thermometer was 115°; before Calpee, 1 18° in the shade ; and on the march
to Gwalior it burst in an officer's tent at 1 30°.
Whilst my force suffered so much from sunstroke, they were deprived in a
great measure of its antidote — water. Between Jhansi and Calpee we found
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 599
no streams ; all was well-water. The wells, which are neither numerous nor Scarcity of
abundant, being of extraordinary depth as we approached the Jumna, which water-
increased the difficulties of obtaining water. Forage also was very scarce. The
information which I had collected on the road, and a reconnaissance made by Scarcity of
Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, with his usual skill, L^utenant
confirmed all I had the honour to state in my report of the action at Koonch Colonel Gall's
as to the enemy's elaborate lines of defences for the protection of Calpee, on reconnaissance
., ,-, „ , , , of Koonch and
the mam road from Koonch to that fortress. Calpee.
The Jumna is fordable at Golowlee, which stands in the nullahs running
down to the Jumna just outside the dangerous labyrinth of ravines which
surround Calpee.
On the 1 4th May I marched with the ist Brigade and Major Orr's force
for Golowlee, which I reached with no other opposition than an attack on the Rebels attack
baggage by the rebel cavalry concealed in a ravine. They were put to flight |^86a6e at
by a troop of the i4th Light Dragoons, which, in anticipation of an ambuscade, May 1858.
I had sent to reinforce the rearguard. In this march we crossed the high road Repulsed by
from Jubbulpore to Calpee. On my arrival at Golowlee I sent two of the ]>ajT00nS.
Hyderabad Cavalry across the Jumna to Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell, com-
manding a column of the Bengal army, who -was on the left bank, and from
whom I was to receive a supply of ammunition for the siege of Calpee, to make
good the large amount which my force had expended in the sieges of Chandhairee
(or Chanderi) and Jhansi. My force had now marched from Bombay to the
Jumna, and had effected a union with the Bengal army, the immediate result
of which was a combined operation of Bengal and Bombay troops against Communica-
Calpee. Having heard at Golowlee that Major Forbes, commanding rearguard t'o" established
of the 2nd Brigade, leaving Etawa l was hard pressed, and hearing a heavy army on left
cannonade in his direction, I marched with the following troops to his ^nk of the
Jumna.
assistance : —
Half troop Bombay Horse Artillery.
One troop i4th Light Dragoons.
One troop Hyderabad Cavalry.
Three guns No. 4 Light Field Battery.
38th and 25th Regiments Bombay Native Infantry.
The enemy were pressing forwards. I immediately gave orders to the troops
who were retiring from the village of Muttra, to reoccupy and hold it at any
price ; ordering up in their support, at a trot, the half-troop Horse Artillery,
half of No. 4 Light Field Battery, a troop of the 1 4th Light Dragoons, and the
3rd Hyderabad Cavalry, with some Native Infantry. Brigadier Stuart, com-
manding the ist Brigade, at Golowlee, and Captain Hare, commanding at Affair at
Tehree, met the attack on Golowlee with vigour. Out of 36 men of the Golowlee-
1 4th Light Dragoons forming part of our forage escort, 17 were brought
back to camp in dhoolics after only two hours' exposure to sun. When I speak Severity of the
of springing to their arms, I ought to make special mention of H.M.'s i4th Light sun<
1 Otherwise Etora.
6oo
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
I4th Light
Dragoons
specially
named.
Disposition of
force for attack
on Calpee.
Calpee cap-
tured from the
rebels, 23rd
May 1858.
Lieulenant-
Colonel Gall
pursues with
horse artillery
and cavalry.
Dragoons, for the admirable order and celerity with which their in-lying and
out-lying picquets mounted on the frequent occasions when I turned them
out, on alarms or sudden attacks of the enemy. Their vedettes and patrols
also were always watchful and intelligent. My first and most important
instructions were to take Calpee. On the morning of the 22nd May (1858) I
made the following disposition of my troops to resist the expected attack : — The
picquets on right front of the 86th Regiment were reinforced by the remainder
of the 86th Regiment in skirmishing order. In support were three guns of No. 4
Light Field Battery, one troop 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, and four companies
of 25th Bombay Native Infantry, the whole under command of Brigadier Stuart;
my left centre facing the plain, and the village of Tehree, was guarded by No. i
troop Bombay Horse Artillery, supported by two troops H.M.'s i4th Light
Dragoons. I reinforced the picquets on the left, in the first instance, with a
squadron of the i4th Light Dragoons under Lieutenant-Colonel Gall, and the
3rd Hyderabad Cavalry under Captain Abbott, and afterwards directed the
troops to retire slowly before the enemy, obliquely across my front, in order to
conceal my heavy guns and draw the rebel cavalry into their fire.
On the 23rd I marched long before break of day against Calpee.
Once clear of the ravines, I instantly directed Lieutenant-Colonel, then
Major, Gall, H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, to pursue the enemy as closely and
as far as he could, with horse artillery and cavalry, and for this officer's very
successful pursuit of the enemy I beg to mention him specially. His column
took the whole of the guns with which their main body retreated from Calpee,
and six caparisoned elephants. The Hyderabad Cavalry and scouts brought in
more guns, which detached parties of the rebel army had abandoned in their
wild flight; so that every piece of field artillery which the enemy had was
taken. The pursuing cavalry made great havoc of the rebel Sepoys, the Sind
Velaitees, and the mercenaries of the Nawab of Banda, till neither horse nor
man could go further. The rebels, broken completely by Lieutenant-Colonel
Gall's column, fled in the utmost disorder, in twos and threes across-country,
throwing away their arms and accoutrements, and even their clothes, to enable
them to run faster. From information furnished by Lieutenant-Colonel Gall,
it was clear that the principal part of the rebels had retreated by the Jaloun
road, and Sir Robert Hamilton was of opinion that they would make to the
north for the Sheer Ghat, a ford across the Jumna, or another ford higher up the
river. Colonel Riddell was guarding the former ford with a movable column.
I detached without delay Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson with a pursuing
column as follows, along the Jaloun road : —
One troop i4th Light Dragoons.
One squadron 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry.
No. 1 8 Light Field Battery.
1 60 Hyderabad Cavalry.
25th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry.
To overtake the enemy was hopeless, for European cavalry riding eighteen
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 601
stone could not catch Indian cavalry riding ten or at most eleven stone. The
operations of the pursuing column will be detailed in my report of the opera-
tions against Gwalior.
I am much indebted for his goodwill and assistance to Major Rickards,
Political Agent for Bhopal, who was wounded when spiritedly accompanying
the charge of Captain Need of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons at the Betwa. — I
have, etc. (Signed) HUGH ROSE, Major-General,
Commanding F.D.A. and Field Force.
From MAJOR FORBES, C.B., Commanding Rearguard, to CAPTAIN TODD,
Brigade Major, 2nd Brigade, Central India Field Force.
CAMP, near DEOPORE, i6//* May 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the Brigadier Report of
commanding the 2nd Brigade, the arrival in camp of the rearguard, having Mi|Jor Forbes,
been closely followed up from within a mile of our last encampment at Etawa x manding'rear-
by 4000 to 5000 of the rebel army, of which 1000 to 1200 were cavalry. I guard of 2nd
withdrew first the guns and infantry to a position on this side of a ravine, then whteh walTa
the troop of H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons, and lastly, the remainder of the troop of i4th
cavalry, at a walk, until concealed from the enemy by the nature of the ground, Ligh|
then at a gallop. This retrograde movement, as I expected, brought the enemy May 1*858.
on us. For the first three miles of the remainder of our march we were almost
surrounded by the rebel cavalry, and fired into by their artillery; but alternately
halting and retiring, we succeeded in preventing any of the baggage from falling
into their hands. — I have, etc.
(Signed) J. FORBES, Major,
$rd Bombay Light Cavalry, Commanding Rearguard.
From LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CAMPBELL, Commanding 2nd Brigade
C. I. Field Force (Brigadier C. Steuart being on the sick-list), to
the CHIEF OF THE STAFF, Central India Field Force.
CAMP DEOPORE, i8tA May 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the Major-General, Acting-
that a large body of upwards of 1200 of the enemy's cavalry, with three guns, / Lieutenant-
moved suddenly out yesterday at 2 P.M. from the rear of a large village situated Colonel)
on our left flank, advancing with an evident intention of attacking our camp. Campbell s
The small village of Muttra on our left was then occupied by two companies of igth May
7ist Highland Light Infantry, and two guns of Bombay Light Battery No. 18, l8S8-
with some of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry in support. I immediately
reinforced this post with the whole of the 7ist Highland Light Infantry and
two guns of the Bombay Light Battery No. 18, giving orders for the i4th Light
Dragoons and two guns of the Royal Artillery to follow, proceeding at once to
1 Or Etora.
602 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
meet the enemy, taking with me the 3rd Light Cavalry and the half battery
whom I met on the way to Muttra.
i4th Light The i4th Light Dragoons under Major Scudamore, and the two guns of the
under°Ma'or R°yal Artillery, took up a position connecting our line with Muttra. A heavy
Scudamore, fire commenced on both sides, but the superior fire of our artillery effectually
kept up lines popped all further advance on the part of the enemy. — (True Extract.}
of communica- ff ._. ,. ~ _, _. . „ ,,
tion> (Signed) G. E. ROSE, A.D.C.
From MAJOR GALL, Commanding Left Wing, I4th Light Dragoons, to
the CHIEF OF THE STAFF, Central India Field Force, Calpee.
CAMP CALPEE, 25^ May 1858.
Major Gall's SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the Major-General
Orations of Commanding the Central India Field Force, that on the 23rd instant, when
left wing, i4th directed by your order to pursue the enemy, supposed to be retiring from
Light Dra- Calpee by the Gwalior or Taloun road, with the following troops :
goons, dated , T • i ^
Calpee, 25th J4th Light Dragoons, 4 troops, 153 sabres;
May 1858. Six guns Horse Artillery ;
3rd Regiment Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry, subsequently increased by
one troop i4th Light Dragoons (48 sabres) ;
50 sabres ist Regiment Hyderabad Contingent Cavalry;
I immediately proceeded to assemble the force placed under my command
Captain Need on the road indicated to me, which proved to be the high road from Calpee to
rorfi^ Light Jnansi- Tn^s> however, diverges to Jaloun about three miles, as near as I can
Dragoons ' recollect, from Calpee. Here I left Captain Need, who had accompanied me
detached to j-^g far ^-^ j^g Squadron, to bring up the Horse Artillery I had sent back
Artillery. for. Lieutenant Dowker, ist Regiment Hyderabad Contingent, I detached a
little to my right ; and accompanied by Captains Abbott and Barrett at the head
The enemy of their detachments, I charged through the enemy's retiring line and dispersed
b^MaioTcall li- Tne rebels were cut up in all directions, with the loss of two guns, which
with a squadron they abandoned to Lieutenant Dowker on the right. The Dragoons in the
undcTc^taln centre sabred a great many of the fugitive Sepoys who, firing wildly and
Barrett, and a completely panic-stricken by the suddenness and rapidity of our advance, fell
H°T °v> d an easy Prey to tne^r pursuers, in some instances casting away their arms, in
Cavalry under others suffering themselves to be followed into ravines where they were slain.
Captain Four elephants were soon after captured as the pursuit continued. Between
capturing 2 2O° an^ 3°o of the rebels had been sabred, without any casualties on our side
guns and 4 beyond the following : — 2 men wounded ; i horse killed ; i horse lost ; i horse
300 rebels. On my left the sound of Captain Lightfoot's guns had been heard as we
approached by the Jhansi road, preceded by Captain Need, who, extending
to the right and left of the road, charged the rear of an infantry column, of
whom he cut down nearly 200, while Captain Lightfoot plied them with
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 603
shot and shell. Captains Need and Lightfoot captured three pieces of Captain Need's
ordnance during this advance, continued by the former to the eighth mile- ^"rges"
stone on the Jhansi road. another portion
After watering, I joined the Horse Artillery on the Jhansi road, and of the enemy,
proposed advancing, but the exhausted state of the Horse Artillery horses, and gk^n^urns
indeed of our men generally, would not admit of this, and I gave orders for to Calpee after
the return of the force to camp at Calpee, which we reached after having being 13 1\(?urs
been upwards of 13 hours in the saddle. The very weak squadron of
Dragoons that I had with me was ably led by Captain Barrett, whose good
conduct whilst serving under my immediate command I have already had
occasion to bring to the notice of the Brigadier Commanding ist Brigade
Central India Field Force, for favourable recommendation to the Major-
General. Captain Barrett's men did great execution amongst the rebels, and Officers of
the sowars of the ist Cavalry Hyderabad Contingent, led by Lieutenant Dowker, j^gg^ns *
emulated them. Surgeon Stewart, i4th Light Dragoons, I have to thank for favourably
his attention to those who fell sick during the pursuit, carried on through the mentloned-
hottest part of the day. My thanks are also due to Assistant-Surgeons Loft-
house and Lumsdaine. Lieutenant and Adjutant Giles, left wing, i4th Light
Dragoons, as on many previous occasions, distinguished himself in several
personal encounters with armed Sepoys.
I specially recommend Captains Abbott, Barrett, and Need, and Lieutenant
Dowker, to the notice of the Major-General. Acting Regimental Sergeant-
Major Clark and Private Winton, 'B' troop, i4th Light Dragoons, behaved with
great gallantry. The captures were as follows : —
5 guns. 6 elephants. Large captures
1 gingall on wheels. 8 camels. from thet
6 ° enemy at
2 artillery wagons filled with 42 bullock draughts. Calpee.
ammunition. 3 hackeries.
i native tumbril. i spring cart.
20 boxes of ammunition.
I have, etc. R. H. GALL, Major ; Left Wing, \^th Light Dragoons.
(True Copy.} (Signed) G. E. ROSE, A.D.C.
GWALIOR DESPATCH
From MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B., Commanding Field Extracts from
Forces South of the Ncrbudda, to MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM paTc*
MANSFIELD, K.C.B., Chief of the Staff of the Army in India. October'
POONA, BOMBAY, \$th October 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the Commander-
in-Chief in India, the operations against Gwalior of the Central India Field
604 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Force, and other troops placed under my command by His Excellency. After
the capture of Calpee (i7th to 23rd May), a short rest having enabled my
Lieutenant- European troops to recover a little, I reinforced Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson
Colonel (commanding column of pursuit) with the following troops: — i wing H.M.'s
commands 86th Regiment; 2 squadrons H.M.'s i4th Light Dragoons.
column of Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson reported to me in two expresses that the
Calpee rebels had certainly taken the road to Gwalior. Not many hours after
the arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson's last express, Sir Robert Hamilton
Brigadier received similar intelligence; when I instantly ordered off Brigadier Stuart
Stuart ordered ^h the following force to reinforce Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson and march
to march on - . , ,
Gwalior after after the rebels, viz.—
No. 4 Light Field Battery. Four companies 25th Bombay Native
Two troops Her Majesty's i4th Light Infantry.
Dragoons. Half company Bombay Sappers and
One wing Her Majesty's yist Regi- Miners.
ment. Two i8-pounders.
One wing Her Majesty's 86th Regi- One 8-inch Howitzer.
ment.
An express letter received a few days later from Scindiah's agent at
Gwalior removed apprehensions for his safety and that of his Government.
Subsequently news came that the rebel army had attacked Scindiah at
Bahadurpore, nine miles from Gwalior. His troops of all arms, with the
exception of a few of his bodyguard, had treacherously gone over, the artillery
in mass, to the enemy. His Highness had been obliged to fly to Agra,
Gwalior taken accompanied only by one or two attendants. The rebels had entered Gwalior,
FT^6 ffbels* taken Scindiah's treasury and jewels — the latter said to be of fabulous value ;
Scindiah to the garrison of the fort of Gwalior had opened its gates to the rebels, and
A§ra- finally from 50 to 60 fine guns had fallen, as well as an arsenal, with abundance
of warlike stores, into the hands of the enemy. To render this state of things
still more embarrassing, Gwalior fell into rebel hands at the most unfavourable
time of the year for military operations, on the eve of the great rains, and when
the heat of summer was at its maximum. It was of vital importance that
troops should reach Gwalior before the rains set in. I therefore, leaving
by order Captain Ommaney's Royal Artillery Battery of four g-pounders
belonging to the 2nd Brigade Central India Field Force, as part of the per-
manent garrison of Calpee, with one troop Bombay Light Cavalry, one company
Royal Engineers, a wing of the 3rd Bombay Europeans, and 400 men of the
24th Bombay Native Infantry, to garrison Calpee until relieved by Bengal
Sir Hugh Rose troops, marched with the following force from Calpee on 6th June, following
Calpee ^th™ B"gad'er Stuart's column by forced marches on the road to Gwalior by
June 1858. Jaloun, marching by night to avoid the sun, viz. : — One troop Bombay Horse
Artillery ; one squadron i4th Light Dragoons ; one squadron 3rd Bombay Light
Cavalry ; Madras Sappers and Miners. One day the heat in the shade rose to
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 605
130°. The officer commanding the outlying picquet of Her Majesty's 1 4th Great heat on
Light Dragoons having reported to me, on the night of the third day, that his th^rnarch,
men had fallen from their saddles from exhaustion, I had the picquet relieved shade,
by a party of Hyderabad Cavalry. My plan of attack on Gwalior was as Sir Hugh
follows : to invest it as much as its great extent would allow, and then to Dose's Plan of
nt tuck on
attack it by its weakest side, the investing troops cutting off the escape of the Gwalior.
rebels. I directed Brigadier Smith with the Rajputana Field Force to move
to a point (Kota-ke-Serai) seven miles to the east of Gwalior. I myself with
Brigadier Stuart's column and the small one I had brought from Calpee
marched against the Morar cantonments, which are about five miles from
Gwalior on the river Morar. Once in possession of the Morar cantonments
I could establish there my hospital, parks, etc., and then, joining Brigadier
Smith, I intended to attack Gwalior with his force and my own. I sent
Colonel Riddell to the Residency, about seven miles to the north of Gwalior,
to extend his force from thence down the west side of Gwalior, and
thus to invest it from that side as far as possible. On i6th June I formed Morar canton-
my force in two lines: — First line, ist Brigade, under Brigadier Stuart ; ™^js "j^
second line, under Brigadier-General Napier, in support of the first, con- june '1858.
sisting of only a small part of the and Brigade, as the rest of it was left at
Calpee.
Both lines advanced, artillery in the centre, 86th Regiment on their right,
25th Bombay Native Infantry on their left, the i4th Light Dragoons on each
flank. The nullahs and broken ground prevented the advance of Captain
Abbott's cavalry and of the i4th Light Dragoons under Captain Thompson
on the right, who reinforced my left. The success of the day was completed Rebels pursued
by the destruction of the rebels in the nullahs, and a most successful pursuit T^omPson's
of them by Captain Thompson, with a wing of the i4th Light Dragoons, wing of i4th
These rebels had been turned by Captain Abbott's advance from the ford of J^Sht
the river, across which and the bridge the main body had retreated, but
Captain Thompson caught them in the plains before they could reach the
hills, and made a great slaughter of them. I beg to mention specially Captain
Thompson, i4th Light Dragoons, for the very good service which he did on
this occasion.
Brigadier Smith at Kota-ke-Serai having asked for reinforcements, I Three troops
directed Lieutenant-Colonel Robertson with three troops i4th Light Dragoons, j*rth ^^\
four guns, and 25th Bombay Native Infantry, to join him. The arrival of the inforce
troops from Calpee on i8th Tune enabled me to march from Morar that Bri?adier
r i • r ..• T> • j- /-« i -VT • -.11 Smith at Kota-
afternoon, leaving for its protection Brigadier-General Napier with the ke-Serai.
following force :— Three troops
I4th Light
One troop Bombay Horse Artillery. Royal Engineers. Dragoons left
. * at Morar with
Three troops i4th Light Dragoons. Bombay Europeans. Brigadier-
Hyderabad Cavalry. Bombay Native Infantry. General R.
,, , , T-T rriu TT j i_ t i .-11 Napier s force,
Meades Horse. Three guns Hyderabad Artillery. igth June 1858.
6o6 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
And taking with me to Kota-ke-Serai
Two troops Two troops i4th Light Dragoons. 86th Regiment.
i4th Light Lignt Field Battery. Hyderabad Infantry.
Dragoons pro- . ,._. .
ceed with Sir Wing 7 ist Highland Light Infantry. Two i8-pounders and one 8-inch
Hugh Rose's Madras Sappers and Miners. Howitzer.
force to Kota-
ke-Serai for
the attack of On the igth June, at the attack on Gwalior, I directed Brigadier Smith
cfwalior16 w^ kT°- 3 troop Bombay Horse Artillery and a squadron of i4th Light
Dragoons to be ready to attack the enemy's positions at the Phool Bagh and
beyond it ; and I had some time before ordered up No. 4 Light Field Battery
with two troops of the i4th Light Dragoons to the heights to cover my
advanced line, and to answer the enemy's batteries in position in front of
Gwalior. The hilly and difficult ground prevented their arrival.
Attack on The attack on Phool Bagh by the No. 3 troop of Bombay Horse Artillery
1>l\°°1 B^Sh by and a squadron of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons protected the right of
troop of the troops attacking the grand parade, and also turned the enemy's left.
Horse Artillery TWO troops of the 1 4th Light Dragoons were held in support on the lower
Hth^ight r°n sl°Pes- Brigadier Smith speaks very highly of the steadiness with which the
Dragoons. 141!! Light Dragoons, escorting 3rd troop Bombay Horse Artillery, stood the
enemy's artillery fire, shot and shell, and of the ardour with which they after-
wards fell on the guns and the retreating enemy.
Scindiah The morning after the capture of Gwalior, His Highness the Prince of
returns and re- Gwalior arrived there with Sir Robert Hamilton, agent to the Governor-
escorted by a General for Central India, and his retinue. I received Scindiah with every
squadron 8th possible mark of respect, and, accompanied by all the superior officers of the
a s^uad^on of f°rces an(^ a^ mv personal and divisional staff, had the honour of escorting
i4th Light His Highness to his palace in ' the Lushkar ' with a squadron of Her Majesty's
8th Hussars> and another of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, most
honourable representatives of my force. Our road lay through the long and
handsome street which leads from the grand parade to the palace, which
was lined by crowds of inhabitants who greeted Scindiah with enthusiastic
acclamations.
I venture to recommend all the troops engaged in the 'Gwalior'
operations, the Central India Field Force and Brigadier Smith's brigade
of the Rajputana Field Force, to his Lordship's most favourable con-
sideration.
I marched on the 6th June from Calpee for Gwalior, and on the igih of
the same month the Gwalior States were restored to the Prince. — I have, etc.
(Signed) HUGH ROSE, Major- General,
Commanding Field Forces of the Ncibudda.
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 607
MORAR DESPATCH
EXTRACTS from DESPATCH of BRIGADIER-GENERAL NAPIER, C.B.,
Commanding 2nd Brigade Central India Field Force, to the
ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Central India Field Force.
CAMP MORAR, \1thjune 1858.
SIR, — On the i6th inst. the 2nd Brigade, composed as follows :
ist troop Horse Artillery, No. 18 Light Field Battery;
i4th Light Dragoons (10 officers, 259 men);
3rd Light Cavalry, Madras Sappers and Miners ;
7 ist Highlanders, Hyderabad Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery ;
Towana Horse ;
when in sight of the cantonments of Morar, was ordered by the Major-General Attack on
commanding the Central India Field Force to advance in echelon from the
right, in support of the left of the ist Brigade. June 1858.
The force was disposed as follows: — No. 18 Light Field Battery on the
right, supported by Johnstone's Hyderabad Horse; in the centre, Madras
Sapper and Miners, and wing of Her Majesty's 7 ist Highland Light Infantry;
while on the left was a wing of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons.
On approaching the right of the cantonment the enemy opened upon us
from six guns, and I directed Lieutenant Harcourt, commanding No. 18 Light
Field Battery, to engage them, an order which he had barely received when
he was summoned to join the ist Brigade.
My brigade being then reduced to the wing of Her Majesty's 7 ist High- Right wing
land Light Infantry, the right wing of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, j*th ^£l
Madras Sappers and Miners, and 100 horse of the Hyderabad Contingent, con- engaged under
tinued to advance on the enemy, who were retreating in large numbers towards Major Scuda-
their right rear. The ground in front was completely intersected with ravines,
lined with the enemy's infantry. I therefore directed Colonel Campbell, com-
manding the wing of the 7 ist Regiment, to throw it forward in skirmishing
order, supported by the i4th Light Dragoons, which was executed with great
spirit by Major Rich on the right, who cleared the ravines on his front, leaving
them filled with the enemy's dead, and relieving the Horse Artillery from much
annoyance by their musketry. I regret to say that this service was not per-
formed without the loss of a very promising young officer of Her Majesty's
7 ist Highland Light Infantry, Lieutenant Neave, who was shot whilst gallantly
leading his men to the ravines. Colonel Campbell took two companies of the
Seventy-first under Lieutenant Scott and cleared some ravines on his left and front,
killing every man of the enemy that held them ; after which he was directed
to clear the top of a hill, where a party of rebels held a temple and some strong
ground. This duty was thoroughly effected, and thirty of the enemy left dead
6o8
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Major Scuda-
more and
Lieutenant
Go wan, I4th
Light
Dragoons,
specially
mentioned.
on the hill. Whilst this was going on a troop of Her Majesty's i4th Light
Dragoons passed round the base of the hill and cut up all the enemy who
attempted to escape from it. The protection of the left of the force and the
rear being placed under my especial charge by the Major-General, I moved the
remainder of the i4th Light Dragoons and Johnstone's Hyderabad Horse
towards the left to cover the rear, and to intercept the enemy's cavalry, who
showed some disposition to move in that direction; but on observing our
cavalry they rapidly disappeared through the hills to the south of Gwalior.
The front being now clear of the enemy I withdrew my brigade to the shelter
of the cantonments. The conduct of the whole of the troops under my
command was excellent. Their perfect steadiness while under the fire of the
enemy's batteries, and the gallantry with which they advanced to clear the ravines,
were deserving of the Major-General's warm commendation. The Seventy-first
dashed into the ravines and encountered the enemy hand to hand. I beg
particularly to recommend to the Major-General's notice Colonel Campbell,
commanding Her Majesty's yist Regiment; also Major Rich, Seventy-first, and
Lieutenant Scott, Seventy-first ; also Major Scudamore, commanding the right
wing of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, which was skilfully handled and
ready for every call for its services. His skirmishers attacked and destroyed
many of the enemy in the ravines. Lieutenant Gowan, with his troop, most
efficiently cut off the enemy's retreat from the hill and destroyed many of them.
— I have, etc. (Signed) R. NAPIER, Brigadier-General,
Commanding 2nd Brigade C.I.F. Force.
JOWRA-ALIPORE DESPATCH
EXTRACTS of DESPATCH from BRIGADIER-GENERAL R. NAPIER, C.B.,
commanding 2nd Brigade Central India Field Force, to the
ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Central India Field Force.
CAMP JOWRA-ALIPORE, z\stjune 1858.
Affair at Jo wra- SIR, — I have to report that I received at 5.15 A.M. on the zoth June orders
T nl' 8 2nd to Pursue tne enem7> with the details shown in the margin, which marched
within an hour and a half after receipt of order.1 The fort, which had been
reported ' in our possession,' opened upon us as we came within range, and
obliged us to make a detour to reach the Residency. We arrived late in the
evening at Sumowlee, having marched about 25 miles. The enemy were reported
to have 12,000 men and 22 guns, and to have marched from Sumowlee to Jowra-
1 Lightfoot's battery Horse Artillery, Prettejohn's troop I4th Light Dragoons (60 sabres),
Abbott's Hyderabad Cavalry, 3rd Light Cavalry (2 troops), Meade's Horse.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 609
Alipore in the forenoon. We were too tired to go beyond Sumowlee, the heat
of the sun having been terrific; so we rested until 4 o'clock A.M. on the 2znd,
then advanced on Jowra-Alipore, where we found the enemy strongly posted,
with their right resting on Alipore, guns and infantry in the centre, and cavalry
on both flanks. I directed Captain Lightfoot to take up a position about 600
yards from the enemy's left flank, and enfilade their line ; and to act after-
wards as circumstances might dictate. Our column of march was the most
convenient formation for attack : Abbott's Hyderabad Cavalry in advance ;
Lightfoot's troop of Horse Artillery, supported by Captain Prettejohn's troop
of 1 4th Light Dragoons, and two troops 3rd Light Cavalry, under Lieutenant
Dick, with a detachment of Meade's Horse under Lieutenant Burlton in
reserve.
When the troops came into view of the enemy after turning the shoulder
of the rising ground (which hid our approach), the whole were advanced at a
gallop, and as soon as the artillery had reached the flank of the enemy's
position, the line was formed to the left, and the guns opened on the enemy
at a distance of 600 yards. After a few rounds the enemy's guns were silenced,
and a rapid thinning and wavering of their ranks took place. Captain Light-
foot limbered up, and advanced at a gallop ; and Captain Abbott with his
Hyderabad Cavalry charged at the same moment, followed by the rest of the
cavalry, who swept through the enemy's batteries and camp into the open plain,
driving before them and cutting down the rebels for several miles. We Defeat and
advanced about six miles from our first point of attack. The enemy were dis- P"rsuit of lhe
persed in every direction, throwing away their arms. Twenty-five guns had Twenty-five
been captured, and were lying broadcast over the plain ; men and horses were guns captured,
exhausted, and it was necessary to retrace our steps.
Besides the guns, a considerable quantity of ammunition and elephants,
tents, carts, and baggage fell into our hands. Never was the route of an army
more complete. I believe between 300 and 400 of the enemy were killed.
The good discipline of the troops of all arms under my command has only
been equalled by the courage with which they charged such a superior force.
Many occasions arose when it was necessary for detached parties to act against
the enemy's infantry, and they were invariably met with the promptest gallantry.
Private Novell of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons charged alone into the Private Novell,
village and killed one of the enemy under a very heavy fire, for which act of J4th Lieht
gallantry I beg to recommend him for the ' Victoria Cross.' Those experienced commended
officers, Captain Prettejohn, Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, and Lieutenant for Victoria
Dick, 3rd Light Cavalry, were charged with the duty of supporting the guns,
which they performed to my entire satisfaction. John and
To Surgeon Stewart of Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, and the |"er^°"
medical officers of the force, I am much indebted for their attention to the i4th Light
sick and wounded. -I have, etc. f S""'
(Signed) R. NAPIER, Brigadier-General, mentioned.
Commanding 2nd Brigade Central India Field Force.
2Q
6io HISTORICAL RECORD OF
RANODE DESPATCHES
EXTRACT from the London Gazette, i8th April 1859.
No. 12.
From BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR ROBERT NAPIER, K.C.B.,
commanding Gwalior Division, to the CHIEF OF THE STAFF.
CAMP RANODE, December 21, 1858.
Extract from SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the Right Honour-
Ranode able the Commander-in-Chief, that I received, on the morning of the i2th
21st* December instant> intimation from Captain McMahon, Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons,
1858. commanding a small force near the confluence of the Jumna, Chambal, and
Sind rivers, that the rebels had passed into the Lohar Purgunnah of Kuch-
wazhur.1 Believing that their course would be up the jungles of the Sind
river, I marched from Gwalior with a force, as below, on the i2th instant,
intending to proceed to Dubbia,2 on the Jhansi road, and then according to
information I might receive, to intercept the enemy : —
No. 4 Light Field Battery, two guns.
1 4th Light Dragoons, 150 non-commissioned officers, rank and file.
2nd Gwalior Mahratta Horse, 100 sabres.
yist Highlanders, 117 non-commissioned officers, rank and file.
25th Bombay Native Infantry, 50 non-commissioned officers, rank and file.
Camel Corps, 40 camels.
At Antri, where the force rested during part of the night, I received at
2 A.M. on the 1 3th, when on the point of proceeding to Dubbia, an express
from the political agent of Gwalior to the effect that his information led him to
believe that the rebels would pass by Gohad, to the north of Gwalior. This
caused me to halt until I should receive by the morning post precise informa-
tion from Captain McMahon. At 10.30 A.M. the Tussildar of Antri informed
me he had just ridden in from Dubbia, the very place of my destination,
and had seen the smoke of the staging bungalow which the rebels were then
burning, and that they were proceeding in a south-westerly direction. I
immediately marched south in pursuit, and at Beettiwar,3 where I arrived at
1.30 A.M. on the i4th, I was informed that the enemy were three kos (in this
country eight or nine miles) distant. The force had been on the move for
thirteen and a half hours, and required a rest. Owing to a delay in getting
grass and disposing of a rear party of the enemy's infantry, in which some of
the Mahratta Horse, under fire for the first time, greatly distinguished them-
selves, I did not get away until 10 A.M. I continued the pursuit through
Nurwar, where I left behind the greater portion of the detachment of the
Seventy-first and the Artillery, which could not keep up with me, and took on
1 Or Kuchwagar. « Or Dutheah. * Or Bhitarwar.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 6n
merely the cavalry and 38 men of the yist Highlanders on camels, and 25 of
the Balandshar Horse, that were halted at Narwar on their way to Kerara,1
owing to the news of the enemy's approach, and after a very exciting though
fatiguing chase we overtook the rebels on the morning of the 1 7th at Ranode. Battle of
Their course had been south of Nurwar and through the Amola Pass, and their t£ December
direction appeared to be along the right bank of the Sind. Twice we were 1858.
encamped within a few miles of them, but owing to the darkness and our
ignorance of the country, and to its hilly and jungly character, we could not
take advantage of it. They chose the most difficult and unfrequented paths,
evidently guided by some one well acquainted with them. Once or twice we
were close on their traces and cut off stragglers or took their horses, the riders
throwing themselves off and darting into the dense thickets which almost close
up the paths. At one moment I believed they were driven into the hands of
Colonel Scudamore, Her Majesty's i4th Light Dragoons, who, according to
the instructions and information I had sent him, had posted his detachments
on the right bank of the Sind below Kolarus to intercept them. I expected
every moment to hear his guns open fire, when I found on getting into a more
open country that the enemy had turned away from the river and were going
towards Ranode. They took a circuitous and difficult road through the jungles,
whilst we marched by a more easy and direct one, where the country was open.
I found the people of Ranode in great excitement, and was informed that the
enemy was close at hand and in full march to attack them, guided by Pyroo
Sing of Tehrea, a rebel Zemindar, whose fort a few miles off had been recently
destroyed by Scindiah. The enemy advanced in an irregular mass, extending
on a front of nearly a mile. Their numbers must have been increased since
they crossed the Jumna. We had barely time to form up the i4th Light
Dragoons when the enemy were within a few hundred yards. The Mahratta
Horse were impeded in crossing a deep ravine by the riding camels, and were
thus a little behind. Our force actually engaged consisted of —
133 of Her Majesty's I4th Light Dragoons, commanded by Captain Prettejohn. 133 men of
60 of the Mahratta Horse, under Captain F. H. Smith. Dragoons,1
38 of the yist Highlanders, under Captain Smith, mounted on camels, and under Captain
guided by Captain Templer, commanding Camel Corps. TrTa^?11'
It was a complete surprise. The Mth Light Dragoons, excellently led by i4th Light
Captain Prettejohn, dashed at once into the centre of the enemy, who never J^ecTthe
attempted to stand as a body, though individuals died fighting desperately. enemy and
Captain Prettejohn having received a severe wound, the command devolved repulsed them,
on Captain Need, who, with much energy and judgment, continued the pursuit Captain Need
for nearly eight miles, cutting up great numbers, particularly at the end, where
the fugitives were stopped by a ravine, those who could not cross it taking
refuge in the jungle, impracticable for cavalry. One hundred and fifty dead
bodies of the enemy have been counted immediately at Ranode, and a much
larger number must have fallen during the pursuit. Captain Need estimates
1 Or Karchra.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Arms,
elephants,
ponies, and
horses
captured.
Officers, etc.,
mentioned for
gallant
conduct.
these last at 300. Many of these were i2th Irregulars, the murderers of Major
Holmes and his family. I fear Ferozshah has escaped for the present. Six
elephants were taken, and numbers of horses, ponies, arms, etc.
It is with much pride and satisfaction that I beg permission to bring to
the notice of the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief the admirable
charge made by the I4th Light Dragoons, and the soldier-like and exemplary
cheerfulness with which the troops of all arms bore the fatigue and privations
inseparable from such service. With such men and officers, the General's task
is easy. It was a cause of very great regret to me, and equally to themselves,
that the remainder of the Seventy-first, under Major Rich, and Captain Brown's
guns were necessarily left behind. I beg to recommend most particularly Captain
Prettejohn, Her Majesty's I4th Light Dragoons, commanding the cavalry, for
the very gallant manner in which he led his men until severely wounded ; also
Captain Need, i4th Light Dragoons, who succeeded to the command and
most ably exercised it. Lieutenant Giles of the i4th Light Dragoons, and
Lieutenant Gough of the Mahratta Horse, are very favourably mentioned by
their commanding officers. I am greatly indebted to Dr. Cruickshank for his
prompt and extreme attention to the wounded. Mr. Apothecary Waite, an old
and excellent servant of the Government, who has been present with the i4th
Light Dragoons in every engagement, was in the field and performed valuable
service. I am under great obligations to Captain Todd, I4th Light Dragoons,
Assistant Adjutant-General, for his invaluable aid at all hours during the
pursuit and in the action. Captain Need mentions very favourably the forward
conduct of Regimental Sergeant-Major Thomas Clark, I4th Light Dragoons,
and Corporal George Best of ' H ' troop, I4th Light Dragoons. I subjoin a list
of casualties. The wounded are doing well. I have, on a former occasion,
the honour to report the good service performed by two of the officers above
mentioned, Captains Todd and Prettejohn, of Her Majesty's i4th Light
Dragoons, for their distinguished conduct in the action with Tantia Topee at
Jowra-Alipore ; but I fear from some accident that my report has not reached
the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief. I therefore beg permission
to submit a copy of it, and most earnestly solicit the favour and protection of
the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief and the Government for the
officers and soldiers therein mentioned, as well as for those named in this
report. — I have, etc.
(Signed) R. NAPIER, Brigadier- General,
Commanding Gwalior Division.
No. 13.
From CAPTAIN NEED, I4th (King's) Light Dragoons, to the
ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL, Gwalior Division.
CAMP RANODE, December 17, 1858.
SIR, — I have the honour to report, for the information of the General
commanding, that, on Captain Prettejohn becoming disabled this morning
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS 613
from a severe wound, I assumed command of the squadron I4th Light Captain Need's
Dragoons, strength 133 sabres, in pursuit of the rebels, following them for
about seven miles, cutting up great numbers, and capturing several elephants, December
horses, etc. I beg to bring to the General's notice the good services rendered l858-
by Lieutenant Giles and all under my command, as well as Captain Lumsden, Lieut. Giles
Assistant Quartermaster-General, and Lieutenant Gough of the Mahratta *nd Corporal
Horse who accompanied the squadron. The gallant conduct of Corporal tight 4
Best, i4th Light Dragoons, came particularly under my notice ; but when every Dragoons,
man of the squadron behaved so well, and did such good service, it is almost m
unjust for me to recommend any man in particular. The pursuit was princi-
pally through low jungles, very bad ground, and full of holes, which will
account for the great number of missing horses in my casualty report which
accompanies this report. — I have, etc.
ARTHUR NEED, Captain, \\th Dragoons.
CASUALTIES TO I4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS AT RANODE, i7th December 1858.
Wounded. — Brevet-Major R. B. Prettejohn, severe sabre-cut on the outside Casualties to
and back of left thigh, three inches above the knee ; one sergeant ; 14th LlSht ^
Dragoons at
one corporal, eleven men. Ranode, i7th
One officer's charger wounded ; one missing ; three troop-horses killed ; five
troop-horses wounded ; thirteen troop-horses missing.
614
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
APPENDIX C
CASUALTIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Return for
January 1900.
'A'and 'C'
sqnadrons and
headquarters
only.
UP to the present time the Fourteenth have been wonderfully lucky in their
casualties in action, but they have had more than their proportion of officers
sick and invalided. They have also lost a large number of horses. The follow-
ing extracts from the Monthly Returns rendered to the War Office supply all
the information that can be obtained up to the present time (7th March
1901):—
EXTRACTS from the MONTHLY RETURNS of the i4th (King's) Hussars
in South Africa, January to December
Nos. fit for
Nos. sick— 1
Officers.
duty— W.O., W.O.,
N.C.O. and N.C.O. and
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Cities to Remark,
Men.
Men.
Captain Dalton,
14 lost on
R. A. M. Corps,
voyage from
severely wounded
England.
23rd, Hussar Hill.
30 died.
t
70 remounts
received.
Return signed in Natal, ist February 1900, by
Lieut-Colonel G. HAMILTON, Commanding
I4th Hussars.
Nos. fit for
Nos. sick —
Officers.
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
Men.
Men.
Return for
Lieut. H. Tilney
280
36
4
13 died.
Prevailing dis-
February 1900.
joined from base,
31 sick.
eases : diarrhoea
' A ' and ' C '
squadrons and
Mooi River.
225 fit for duty.
114 remounts
and dysentery.
headquarters
received.
only.
Return signed at Ladysmith, ist March 1900, by
Lieut.-Colonel G. HAMILTON, Commanding
1 4th Hussars.
1 These Extracts are not copies of the original Returns.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
615
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty-W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick—
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
Sec.- Lieutenant
391
94
Sergt. Storer
17 died and
Prevailing dis-
Champion with a
and 3 men died destroyed (colic
eases : enteric fev.
draft of 115 men
of enteric fever, and exhaustion
and dysentery.
joined at Durban.
dysentery, and mostly).
94 men trans-
abscess of the
40 sick.
ferred.
liver.
250 fit.
157 received by
regiment.
Return for
March 1900.
'A' and «C'
squadrons and
headquarters
only.
Return signed 1st April, Cape Colony, by
Lieut.-Colonel G. HAMILTON, Commanding
1 4th Hussars.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
25 fit.
i W.O.,
126
5 men died
381 fit.
' B ' squadron
2 sick.
450
(enteric fever).
16 killed in
joined I4th April,
Major R. M.
N.C.O.
Sergt. J. Cun-
action and died.
with
Richardson appd.
and men.
ninghame killed
60 sick.
7 officers,
Assist. Provost-
in action, 23rd,
(57 officers'
166 men,
Marshal to xith
at Leeuwkop.
chargers fit.)
129 horses.
Division.
Veterinary Capt.
O'Donel to head-
quarters staff.
Captain Dalton
R.A.M.C., to hos-
pital at Bloem-
fontein, sick from
wound received in
action.
Capt. P. Denny,
ist Dragoon Gds.,
killed in action,
24th, at Roode-
kop.
Captain D. M.
Miller severely
wounded at Calle-
berg.
Return for
April 1900
Return signed at Donkerhoek, Bloemfontein, ist
May 1900, by Capt. C. G. G. HUTCHISON, 2 ist
Lancers, for Commdg. Officer i4th Hussars.
N.B.—b. Court of Inquiry stated subsequently that Corporal G. J. Osborne (attached for duty to
Roberts's Horse), reported missing, was killed in action at Sanna's Post, March 31, 1900.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Return for
May 1900.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty—W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
Captain Gage
449
155
i man died at
308 fit
Prevailing dis-
to base at East
Johannesburg 94 sick.
eases : diarrhoea,
London.
of wounds re-
enteric fever, and
7 sick and subse-
ceived in action.
rheumatism.
quently invalided
Sergt. Bottom-
home to England,
ley and 3 men
CptBrooksbank
died of enteric
Cpt. Miller,
and dysentery.
Lieut. Henry,
Lieut. Blackett,
Lieut. Wright,
Sec.-Lieut.Pres-
cott-Westcar,
Sec.-Lieutenant
Champion.
Capt. S. Robert-
son from Black
Watch (Royal
Highl") joined for
duty 1 2th May.
Capt Hutchison
to Cavalry Depot,
Bloemfontein.
19 officers fit.
Return signed at Kameel Drift, Pretoria, ist June
1900, by Lieut.-Col. G. HAMILTON, Com-
manding 1 4th Hussars.
Return for
June 1900.
Nos. fit for
Nos. sick —
Officers.
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Deaths— W.O., Casualties to
N.C.O. and Men. Horses.
Remarks.
Men.
Men.
Captain Stuart
576
99
Corpl. Burton 337 fit Draft received
Robertson died effectives
and 3 men died 53 died, aban-
from England (3rd
of dysentery, ist
(3 of enteric). doned, and de-
Hussars) of 30
June, at Kroon-
stroyed.
men.
stad.
103 to sick
6 officers sick.
horse depots.
Return signed at Kameel Drift, Pretoria, by
Lieut-Col. G. HAMILTON, Commanding
i4th Hussars, ist July 1900.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
617
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C O. and
Men.
Nos. sick—
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
17 fit.
746
I65
i man died
267 fit.
Prevailing dis-
Return for
3 officers sent
effectives
at Pretoria of 64 sick.
eases : diarrhoea,
July 1900.
home invalided —
wounds receiv'd 199 at sick
rheumatism, veldt
Major O'Brien,
in action.
horse depots.
sores.
Captain Gage,
193 remounts
134 men joined.
Qr.-mr. Mugford.
received.
3 officers joined
from England —
Sec.-Lt. Harvey,
Sec.-Lt. Scott,
Sec.-Lt. Hon. H.
Robertson, 3rd
Batt. Cameron
Highlanders.
Return signed 1st August 1900 at Klip Pass,
Pretoria, by Lieut.-Colonel G. HAMILTON,
Commanding i4th Hussars.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
17 officers pre-
I man died of
276 fit.
Prevailing dis-
sent (including
wounds receiv'd
49 sick.
eases : diarrhoea
attached) ; Lieut.
in action.
86 at sick
and veldt sores.
E. J. Jameson,
i man died of
horse depots.
Total effectives
Acting Quarter-
enteric fever.
1 50 received
in South Africa
Master.
from remount
(including sick,
Officers atthd.—
depot.
etc.): i W.O., 719
Capt. Lockett, 1st
48 died and
N.C.O. and men.
Dragoon Guards ;
destroyed.
Capt. Arnold, ist
Madras Lancers ;
Capt. Hutchison,
2 ist Lancers ;
Sec.-Lieut. Hon.
H. Robertson, 3rd
Cameron High-
landers.
Return for
August 1900.
Return signed at Machadodorp, ist September,
by Lieut.-Col. G. HAMILTON, Commanding
1 4th Hussars.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Return for
September
1900.
Return for
October 1900.
Return for
November
1900.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.CO.and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
2 sick.
554
144
173 fit.
Health good ;
17 fit (including
69 destroyed,
average daily No.
attached).
abandoned, and of sick, 4.
missing.
Prevailing dis-
68 to sick
eases : rheuma-
horse depots.
tism, veldt sores.
4 privates pri-
soners of war.
50 men sent
x
home (time-expi'd
and invalided).
Return signed, ist October, at Machadodorp, South Africa,
by Lieut.-Col. G. HAMILTON, Commanding i4th Hussars.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
14 fit.
5 attached.
2 sick.
Major R. M.
Richardson from
staff employment,
27.10.00.
I4O
I man killed
in action, Geluk,
13.10.00.
5 killed in
action.
21 died.
82 to sick
horse depots.
50 destroyed
and abandoned.
Health good.
Total effectives
in South Africa —
i warrant officer,
692 N.C.O. and
men, 183 horses.
Return signed at Pretoria, ist November, by Lieutenant-
Colonel G. HAMILTON, Commanding I4th Hussars.
Officers.
Nos. fit for
duty— W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Nos. sick —
W.O.,
N.C.O. and
Men.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
1 6 effectives.
112
543 fit.
General health
Lt.-Col. Hamil-
45 sick.
good.
ton commanding
6 killed and
Drafts received
4th Cav. Brigade,
destroyed.
of 203 men.
21. 11.00.
65 to veteri-
Total effectives
Major Richard-
nary hospitals.
—Men, 888.
son to command
481 remounts.
Horses, 590.
of Cavalry Depot,
Elandsfontein.
Lieuts. Wright
and Walker to
Maitland Camp.
Capt. Arnold, ist
Madras Lancers,
from staff duty.
Sec.-Lieut. Lace
from England,
17.11.00.
Return signed at Heidelberg, ist December 1900, by Major
E. D. BROWN, Commanding I4th Hussars.
THE I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
619
Officers.
Total Effectives.
Deaths— W.O.,
N.C.O. and Men.
Casualties to
Horses.
Remarks.
Officers present
I warrant officer
i man killed
18 killed inac-
General health
and doing duty
(Regl. Sergt.-Maj.,
in action.
tion, destroyed,
good.
with regiment,
A. F. Pridgeon),
2 men died.
and abandoned.
Prevailing dis-
3 ist Deer. 1900 —
557 N.C.O. and
25 bought as
eases : veldt sores,
Major Brown,
men.
chargers.
diarrhoea, enteric
Capt. Tottenham,
Attached officers
48 died.
fever.
Lieut. Jameson,
— Capt. Hutchison,
Total effec-
Campbell,
2 ist Lancers,
tives— 530.
Wright,
Capt. Lockett, ist
Browne,
Dragoon Guards.
Hon. H.
Grosvenor,
Dawes,
Harvey,
Sec-Lieut. Scott,
Captain and Adj.
Lawrence, D.S.O.
Return signed at Welgevondon, South Transvaal,
ist January 1901, by Major E. D. BROWN,
Commanding I4th Hussars.
Reserve Squadron, i4th (King's) Hussars, at Curragh Camp, Ireland.
Strength on 3 ist December 1900 (from the Monthly Return) : —
6 officers, i warrant officer.
351 non-commissioned officers and men.
4 officers' chargers; 109 troop-horses.
Return signed by Captain J. MURRAY, Com-
manding Reserve Squadron, i4th Hussars,
Curragh Camp.
Return for
December
1900.
Strength of
Reserve
Squadron,
Dec. 1900.
EXTRACT from the London Gazette, 1901.
The following appeared in the London Gazette of Tuesday, i5th January
1901 : —
REWARD FOR GALLANTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
' The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer
the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned officer, whose
claims have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, for his conspicuous
bravery in South Africa, as stated against his name : —
' Major E. D. Brown, i4th Hussars. — On October 13, 1900, at Geluk, when
the enemy were within 400 yards, and bringing a heavy fire to bear, Major
Major E» D.
Brown,
1 4th Hussars,
awarded the
Victoria Cross,
1 5th January
1901.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Brown, seeing that Sergeant Hersey's horse was shot, stopped behind the last
squadron as it was retiring, and helped Sergeant Hersey to mount behind him,
carrying him for about three-quarters of a mile to a place of safety. He did
this under a heavy fire. Major Brown afterwards enabled Lieutenant J. G.
Browne, i4th Hussars, to mount, by holding his horse, which was very restive,
under the heavy fire ; Lieutenant Browne could not otherwise have mounted.
Subsequently Major Brown carried Lance-Corporal Trumpeter Leigh out
of action.'
Death of
Second-
Lieutenant
Hon. H.
Robertson.
POSTSCRIPT
Whilst these sheets were in press Second-Lieutenant the Hon. Hugh Robert-
son, 1 4th (King's) Hussars, died at Johannesburg on the ist February 1901, from
a fracture at the base of the skull, the result of an accident. He was son of
Lord Robertson of Forteviot, Perthshire, N.B., and was born in 1879. He
served in the 3rd Battalion (Queen's) Cameron Highlanders from March 1899
until appointed to the Fourteenth in October 1900. His premature death was
much regretted by his brother officers and comrades.
Names of
officers, non-
commissioned
officers and
men of I4th
Hussars men-
tioned by Earl
Roberts in his
despatch for
meritorious
service in
South Africa.
From the London Gazette, dated War Office, Tuesday, loth September
1901 : —
EXTRACT OF A DESPATCH from Field-Marshal Earl Roberts^ Commander-in-
Chief (dated \th September 1901), to the Secretary of State for War.
' I have the honour to bring to your notice the names of the following
regimental officers, non-commissioned officers and men who have rendered
special and meritorious service, etc. etc. : —
' IST (KING'S) DKAGOON GUARDS.
' Captain W. J. Lockett (attached to i4th Hussars).
' I4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS.
1 Majors E. D. J. O'Brien and E. J. Tickell, D.S.O. ; Captains C. B. Totten-
ham, F. R. Lawrence, D.S.O., and T. E. L. Hill-Whitson ; Lieutenants W. R.
Campbell and the Hon. H. Grosvenor; Quartermaster (Honorary Captain)
F. Mugford (now retired) ; Sergeant-Major (now Quartermaster and Honorary
Lieutenant) A. F. Pridgeon ; Squadron Sergeant- Major C. F. Perman ; Sergeant
W. Griffin ; Corporal W. Ridgewell (Reservist) ; Lance-Corporal H. J. D.
Leigh ; Privates H. Shenton (Reservist), M. Everson (Reservist), and F. M.
Grace (Reservist), etc., etc.
(Signed) ' ROBERTS, F.-M?
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INDEX
' A ' TROOP, gallantry of, 278.
Abbott, Captain, mentioned in despatches, 603.
Accoutrements, 18, 27.
Actions (including minor affairs) —
Aire, 143, 149.
Alaijos, 97.
Almandos, 125.
Badajoz, 94.
Barodia, 275, 279.
Betwa, 289.
Official despatches, 593.
Boxtell, 39.
Bueren, 40.
Burgos, 117.
Busaco, 71, 72.
Calpee, 300-12, 322.
Official despatches, 598.
Carpio, 89.
Castel Paget, 151.
Castrillos, 97.
Chanderi, 280-82.
Chieveley, 406.
Chillian wallah, 224-33.
Official despatch and account, 573.
Ciudad Rodrigo, 93.
Clarac, 150.
Coa, 69.
Crocodile River, 413.
Derdepoort, 414.
Dhar, 259.
Diamond Hill, 413.
Doornkop, 412.
Douro, 56.
Driefontein, 405.
Dronfield, 405.
Elst, 40.
Erfdeel, 415.
Espeja, 90.
Falkirk, 1 6.
Frexedas, 71.
Fuentes d'Onor, 81-87.
Gallegos, 80.
Garotha, 322-
Garrakota, 277.
Official despatches, 591.
Garris, 140, 147.
Geldermalsen, 40.
Geluk, 419.
Goojerat, 233.
British losses, 240.
Official despatches, 237-39.
Actions (continued) —
Goraria, 264-67.
Gwalior, 312.
Official despatches, 603.
Hasparren, 128, 130.
Hussar Hill, 406.
Jhansi, 283-99.
Official despatches, 582.
Jowra-Alipore, 319.
Official despatches, 608.
Kimberley, 405.
Koonch, 301.
Official despatches, 585.
Le Mirebalais, 44.
Leeuw Kop, 410.
Lembege Road, 151.
Lohari, 300.
Official despatches, 597.
Mahratta Campaign, 208.
Matilla, 113.
Maya Pass, 125.
Mendionda, 128.
Modder River, 405.
Mohamra, 250.
Mooi River, 428.
Morar, 313.
Official despatches, 607.
Mortagao, 71.
Muddenpore Pass, 279.
Mundesor, 262-67.
Official despatches, 588.
Nel's Hoek, 417.
New Orleans, 178.
Nive, 138.
Orthes, 142, 148.
Paardeberg, 405.
Pancorba, 118.
Penaranda, 103.
Po90 Velho, 81.
Poplar Grove, 405.
Preston, i.
Prestonpans or Gladsmuir, 13-15.
Ramnuggur, 212-22.
Official despatches, etc., 561, 568.
Ranode, 324.
Official despatches, 610.
Rathgur, 274.
Official despatches, 591.
Rietfontein, 412.
Rio Mandevilla, 75.
Roodekop, 410.
622
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Actions (continued) —
Sabugal, 79.
Sadulapore, 223.
St. Gaudens, 145.
Salamanca, 98-107.
Sexmiro, 66.
Sobral, 76.
Talavera, 60-62.
Tarbes, 144.
Thabanchu, 410.
Toulouse, 145, 151.
Tuyl, 40.
Usagre, 95.
Vaalkranz, 407.
Venta de Serra, 78.
Vic de Bigorre, 151.
Vittoria, 118; plunder at, 122-24.
Watervalboven, 416.
Zwartkopjes, 416.
Adelaide, Queen-Dowager, thanks from,
202.
Adjutants, succession of, 465.
Afghanistan, orders for, countermanded, 357.
Agents, succession of, 518-59.
Agra, march to, 209.
Ainslie, General C. P. de, memoir and
services, 496.
Aire, combat of, 143, 149.
Alaijos, skirmish at, 97.
Albert, H.R.H. Prince (see Consort, H.R.H.
The Prince).
Alexander, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, loss of
arm, 217, 562, 565.
Almandoz, affair of, 125.
Almeida, attempt to relieve, 80, 87.
Almanack, Regimental, 431.
Revision of, by Lieutenant-Colonel
H. B. Hamilton, 373.
Alten, Major-General Victor Baron, wounded,
98.
' Amateurs ' in action, 167.
America, service in, 177.
Amiens, Peace of, 51.
Apthorp, Lieutenant R. P. —
Invalided home, 243.
Ramnuggur, account of, 569.
Arbuthnot, Major-General W., C.B., memoir
and services, 501.
Argyll, Field-Marshal, Duke of, memoir and
services, 472.
Arms, 19, 23, 37, 201, 369, 388, 392.
Complement of, 38.
New, 368.
Army Lists, extracts from, 511-59.
Ashton's Cup, winners of, 458.
Assistant-Surgeons, succession of, 525-50.
Atrocities by French soldiers, 163.
Aurungabad, 253, 254.
Authorities quoted, list of, xvii.
Ayres, Quartermaster-Sergeant, wounded, 405.
BABINGTON, Captain, taken prisoner, 150.
Badajos, siege and capture, 94, 95.
Badges, list of, vii.
Baggage and documents, loss of, 126, 127.
Baker, Lieutenant-Colonel C. M., memoir
and services, 490.
Band, uniform of, 198, 374.
Bandmaster added to establishment, 336.
Bandmasters, list of, 560.
Barberton, march on and capture of, 416-18.
Barodia —
Battle of, 275.
Fort, capture of, 279.
Barrett, Captain T.—
Death, 331.
Mentioned in despatches, 603.
Battles (see Actions).
Bayonets, new, 27, 38.
Beamish, Cornet, capture of Sepoys, 286.
Beckwith, Lieutenant-General W., K. H. ,
memoir and services, 481.
Belfast (South Africa), arrival at, 415.
Bentley-Innes, Lieutenant F. D., killed by
lightning, 366.
Beresford, Marechal, 175.
Best, Corporal, mentioned in despatches, 612.
Bethel, march to, 420.
Betwa —
Battle of, 289.
Official despatches, 593.
Beyers, General, attempt to intercept, 428.
Bhopal mutineers, shooting of, 273.
Biarritz, memorial to English officers and men,
IS*-
Bidassoa, passage of, 126.
Blakeney, General Grice, memoir and
services, 486.
Blasco Sancho, affair of, 104.
Bloemfontein, surrender of, 405.
Blyth, Captain W. D'Urban—
Gallantry of, 566, 571.
Mentioned in despatches, 588.
Boldana mutineers arrested, 255.
Bolton, Captain R. N., death of, 340.
Boschfontein, arrival at, 427.
Botha, General Hans, attempt to intercept, 425.
Bowles, Major Richard, gallant conduct of, 13.
Boxtell, battle of, 39.
Boyd, Lieutenant W. D., death of, 245.
Boyle, Lieutenant-Colonel W. , 484.
Bridgewater, General, Earl of, memoir and
services, 476.
Bristol riots, quelling of, 192, 193.
Brotherton, General Sir T. W., G.C.B.—
Charger 'Fatima,' 133.
Cureton, Brigadier-General, account of, 219.
Egypt, anecdotes of service in, 175.
Exploits of, 105.
Gallant conduct of, 76.
Lucky escapes, 1 60, 173, 174.
Peninsular War, anecdotes of, 66, 70, 72, 73,
76, 77, 79, 84, 105, 1 14, 121, 127, 128, 134.
Plate, collection of, 122.
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Prisoner of war, 128, 130.
Sans culotte riding, 79.
Services of, 176.
Single combat with a French officer, 106.
Single combat, opinion on, 170.
Wounded, 97, 103, 107, 128, 130.
Brown, Major E. D., Victoria Cross awarded,
419, 619.
Brydges, Lieutenant, taken prisoner, 178.
Buchanan, Private, gallant conduct of, 263.
Bueren, action of, 40.
Burgos, affair of, 117.
Burgoyne, Major-General Sir John, memoir
and services, 485.
Busaco, battle of, 71, 72.
Bushey, fire at, thanks from Adelaide, Queen-
Dowager, 202.
Buttons, numbering regimen tally, 31.
' C ' TROOP, successful ruse by, 282.
« Ca Ira ! ' 65.
Calls-
Officers' dress, for mess, 445.
Regimental, 435.
Calpee, march on and capture of, 300-12,
322.
Official despatches, 598.
Cambridge, Duke of —
Lunch with officers, 372.
Pork chops prepared for, eaten by riding-
master, 352.
Praise from, 332.
Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel F. P., memoir
and services, 500.
Campbell, John (see Lome, Marquis of).
Captain-Lieutenants, succession of, 511-27.
Captains, succession of, 511-59.
Carbines —
Lee-Metford, issue of, 392.
Martini-Henry, issue of, 369.
Martini-Metford, issue of, 388.
Percussion carbines, issue of, 201.
Carnegy, Brigadier-General, report by, 367.
Carpio, affair of, 89.
Carter, Major Arthur, taken prisoner, 43.
Castel Paget, affair of, 151.
Castrillos, affair of, 97.
Casualties —
Betwa, 294, 596, 597.
Boxtell, 39.
Burgos, 1 1 8.
Busaco, 71.
Calpee, 322.
Carpio, 90.
Castrillos, 97.
Chillianwallah, 232, 233.
Coa, 69.
Douro, 58.
Dronfield, 405.
Fuentes d'Onor, 82.
Gcluk, 419.
Goojerat, 240.
Casualties (continued) —
Hasparren, 128.
Indian Mutiny campaign, 333.
Jowra-Alipore, 320.
Koonch, 304, 588.
Leeuw Kop, 410.
Matilla, 113.
Mooi River, 428.
Mundesor, 590.
Natal (i 88 1), 362.
Nive, passage of, 138.
Preston, i.
Ramnuggur, 216, 217, 565, 567.
Ranode, 325, 613.
Rietfontein, 412.
Rio Mandevilla, 75.
Roode Kop, 410.
Salamanca, 103.
Sexmiro, 67.
South Africa —
(1881) 362.
(1900-1901), 613-19.
Talavera, 60, 63.
Tugela, crossing of, 408.
Usagre, 95.
Venta de Serra, 78.
Vic de Bigorre, 151.
West Indies, 46, 47.
Cavalry —
Ireland, number in, 24.
Reorganisation of, 395.
Central India, service in, 270-328.
' Central India' granted, 337.
Challenge Cups, Regimental, winnersof,457-6o.
Chanderi —
Assault and capture of, 280-82.
Splendour of city, 281.
Chaplains —
Deputy-Chaplains —
Croasdaile, J. , 29.
Crowe, Gethin, 26.
Devereux, Mr., 38.
Downey, A., 28.
Handcock, E. , 28.
Hodgkinson, Mr., 29.
Pay of, 48.
Pickering, Peter, 5.
Vatass, Peter —
Appointment, 1 6.
Leave on account of illness, 22, 24, 26,
28, 31, 38.
On leave for fifty-three years, 48.
Retirement, 48.
' Charge Extraordinary,' 121.
Chetwynd, Viscount —
Chillianwallah, account of, 578.
Ramnuggur, account of, 572.
Chieveley, action of, 406.
Children, number of in regiment, 185, 355.
Chillianwallah —
Battle of, 224, 233.
Official despatches, etc., 573.
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
' Chillianwallah ' granted, 244.
Cholera, deaths from, 209, 210, 357.
Chronological Record, xix.
Ciudad Rodrigo —
Blockade of, 89.
Dukedom of, conferred on Duke of Welling-
ton, 93.
Siege and capture of, 93.
Clarac, affair of, 150.
Clark, Sergeant- Major —
Gallant conduct of, 263.
Medal for gallant conduct, 327.
Mentioned in despatches, 603.
Clothing becoming the property of the soldier,
390 (see Uniform).
Clyde, Lord, account of Ramnuggur, 568.
Coa, combat of, 69.
Colley, Major-General, death of, 360,
Colman's patent horseshoe, 185.
Colonels —
Memoirs and services of, 467.
Succession of, 462.
Consort, H.R.H. The Prince, escort for, 202,
203.
Cook, a, treatment of, by French officers, 163.
Cornets, succession of, 511-50.
Corporals, exploits of, 104, 105, 109, 238, 612.
Corporal punishment, 185.
Last cases of, 339.
Corunna —
Battle of, 55.
Retreat from, 159.
Courage, moral and physical, 127-29.
Cowards, shifts of, 172.
Craig, Private, gallant conduct of, 1 50.
Crimea, orders for, countermanded, 246.
Crocodile River, affair near the, 413.
Cronje, surrender of, 405.
Croasdaile, J., deputy chaplain, 29.
Cruppers, abolition of, 369.
Crowe, Gethin, deputy chaplain, 26.
Cunningham, Sergeant, killed in action, 410.
Cureton, Lieutenant A. G. —
Killed in action, 232.
Monument to, 581.
Brigadier-General C. R. —
Brotherton's, General, account of, 219.
Killed in action, 217, 218, 562, 565, 569.
Service in Fourteenth under assumed name,
218, 219.
DALTON, Captain, wounded, 407.
Deccan, service in, 251-69.
Dejean, Lieutenant-General Louis, memoir
and services, 471.
Delme, Captain, death of, 198.
Dennis, Colonel J., memoir and services, 504.
Denny, Captain (ist Dragoon Guards), killed
in action, 410.
Deputy chaplains —
Croasdaile, J. , 29.
Crowe, Gethin, 26.
Devereux, Mr., 38.
Downey, A., 28.
Handcock, E., 28.
Hodgkinson, Mr., 29.
Derby, officers winning and running dead-
heat, 377.
Derdepoort, affair of, 414.
Desertions, 351, 353, 360.
Desgrangues, Lieutenant-Colonel H., 484.
Despatches where Fourteenth mentioned —
Betwa, 593.
Calpee, 598.
Chillianwallah, 574.
Garrakota, 59 !•
Goojerat, 237-39.
Gwalior, 603.
Jhansi, 582.
Jowra-Alipore, 608.
Koonch, 585.
Lohari, 597.
Morar, 607.
Mundesor, 588.
Ramnuggur, 568.
Ranode, 610.
Rathgur, 591.
Devereux, Mr. , deputy chaplain, 38.
Dew, Lieutenant G. M. —
Death of, 334.
Gallant conduct of, 262.
Dhar, action of, 259.
Diamond Hill, action of, 413.
Dick, Lieutenant (Bombay Engineers), killed
in action, 297.
Dickson, Major-General, letter from, 422.
Distinctions, list of, vii.
Documents, Regimental, loss of, 127.
Doherty, General H. E., C.B., memoir and
services, 495.
Doornkop, action of, 412.
Dormer, Lieutenant-General James —
Memoir and services, 467.
Regiment raised by, i.
' Dormer's Dragoons,' I.
Officers, list of, 511.
Douro, passage of, 56.
' Douro' granted, 199.
Dowker, Lieutenant, mentioned in despatches,
603.
Downey, Rev. A. , deputy chaplain, 28.
Dragoon horses, cost of, 27.
Dramatic performances, 347.
Dress -call, officers' mess, 445.
Driefontein, action of, 405.
Dronfield, action of, 405.
Dunbar, Sir G., death, 49.
EDUCATION statistics, rank and file, 339, 358,
395-
Egerton, John William (see Bridgewater, Earl).
Egypt, General Brotherton's anecdotes of
service in, 175.
Eighteenth (i8th) Hussars, drafts to, 348.
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Eighth (8th) Light Dragoons, two troops of
Fourteenth incorporated with, 41.
Elandsfontein, arrival at, 416.
Election duty —
Ireland, 197, 342, 344-46, 348.
Scotland, 199.
Elst, battle of, 40.
' Emperor, ' the, 120.
Engagements (see Actions).
English, Lieutenant-Colonel A. J., memoir
and services, 509.
Englishmen in regiment, number of, 339, 395.
Erfdeel, affair of, 415.
Erie, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas, 485.
Espeja, affair at, 90.
Establishment, and changes in, i, 13, 22, 27,
33, 41, 48, 50, 51, 53, 64, 78, 91,
182, 186, 188, 191, 195, 199, 200, 207,
212, 244, 329, 333, 339, 343, 345, 347,
353. 359, 363, 369, 370, 37i, 372, 375,
38o, 385, 386, 390, 391, 392, 396, 397,
400.
Table of, since 1 800, 447.
FALKIRK, battle of, 16.
Farriers —
Eight appointed for first time, 180.
Plunder at Vittoria, 123.
' Fatima,' General Brotherton's charger, 133.
Fencing-Instructor added to establishment,
339-
Ferozepore, arrival at, 211.
Firelocks, 27, 38.
Fitzgerald, Captain J. F.—
Killed in action, 215, 567.
Monument to, 581.
Fitzroy, General C. (see Southampton, Lord).
' Fitzroy's Dragoons,' 26.
Flanders, drafts to, 39.
Flintshire riots, quelling of, 387-88.
' Flying camps,' 287.
Follett, Major, death of, 256.
Foreign service, table of, 446.
Fourteenth (i4th) Light Dragoons, 32.
(Duchess of York's Own) Light Dragoons,
48.
(King's) Light Dragoons, 189.
(King's) Hussars, 335.
Forge carts, withdrawal of, 189.
Fowke, Lieutenant J., wounded, 97.
Francklyn, Cornet G. A., death of, 243 ; cup
presented by family in memory, 243.
French, Lieutenant-General J. D. P., address
by, 420.
French officer —
Chivalrous conduct of a, 91.
Cook, a, treatment, of, by, 163.
Co'vardic^ of a, 171.
Matrimonial ideas of, 170.
Single combat of Captain Brotherton with a,
1 06.
French Revolution, 38.
French soldiers, atrocities by, 163.
Frexedas, affair of, 71.
Fuentes d'Onor, battle of, 81-87.
' Fuentes d'Onor ' granted, 183.
GALL, Lieutenant-Colonel R. H., C.B.—
Calpee despatch, 602.
C.B. given to, 327.
Description of, 328.
Gallant conduct of, 566, 586, 597.
Prai--e of, 272.
Recovery of, after being placed in coffin, 210.
Special mention in despatches, 584, 590.
Gallegos —
Affair of, 80.
Retreat from, 88.
Galops (Music) —
Cavalry Brigade, 442.
Regimental, 440, 441.
Garotha, affair of, 322.
Gardiner, Colonel, 14.
Death of, 15.
Sergeant —
Gallant conduct of, 260.
Mentioned in despatches, 596.
Garrakota, action of, 277.
Official despatches, 591.
Garris, action of, 140, 147.
Garth, Major R., exchange, 373.
Geldermalsen, battle of, 40.
Geluk, action of, 419.
General, a, nervousness of, 128.
German Emperor —
Portrait, presentation of, to Captain Richard-
son, 383.
Praise from, 383.
Review by, 375.
Visit of, duty on occasion of, 382, 383.
German officers —
Barbarous conduct of, 73.
Gallant conduct of, 72.
Giles, Lieutenant —
Gallant conduct of, 292.
Mentioned in despatches, 603, 612, 613.
Gladsmuir, battle of, 14.
Gloucester, fire at, rewards to men for
services, 195.
Goddard, Major J. II., death of, 245.
Gomm, Sir W., farewell order, 245.
Good-service pension, Lieutenant-Colonel
Scudamore, 335.
Goojerat, battle of, 233.
British losses, 240.
Official despatches, 237, 239.
' Goojerat ' granted, 244.
Goraria, battle of, 264, 267.
Gough, Colonel Hon. G. H., C.B.—
Description of, 508.
Funeral, 405.
Memoir and services, 506.
General Sir Hugh, account of Ranode
by, 325-
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HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Gough, Lord —
Chillianwallah despatch, 574.
Goojerat despatch, 239.
Ramnuggur despatch, 568.
Supercession of determined on, 241.
Gough Cup, winners of, 459.
Gowan, Lieutenant —
Mentioned in despatches, 608.
Successful ruse by, 282.
Grainger, Troop Sergeant- Major, gallant con-
duct of, 260.
Gray, Lieutenant F. D., death of, 209.
Greenock, Lord, regiment praised by, 199.
Grosvenor, Lieutenant Hon H. —
Boers captured by, 418.
Lucky escape of, 428.
Guerillas, value of, 170.
Guidons, 20.
Abolition of, 197.
History of, 453.
Prussian Eagle on, 195.
Gurwood, Lieutenant, surrender of Ciudad
Rodrigo, 93.
Gwalior, march on and capture of, 312-17.
Official despatches, 603.
Gwalior Star, the, 318.
Gwynne, Lieutenant John, wounded, 97.
' H ' TROOP, Private Novell recommended
for V.C., 320, 609.
Hamilton, Lieutenant-General Archibald,
memoir and services, 469.
Colonel G. H. C. , memoir and services,
509-
Father and brothers of, 510.
Colonel H. B.—
Memoir and services, 505.
Regimental Almanack, revision of, 373.
Regimental Standing Orders, 51, 381.
— Lieutenant W., 7.
'Hamilton's' Dragoons, list of officers, 512,513.
Hammond, Cornet, taken prisoner, 178.
Handcock, Rev. E., 28.
Hanley, Corporal, exploit of, 104, 105, 109.
Hanover, White Horse of, authority to bear, 20.
Hartebeestfontein, arrival at, 427.
' Harvester,' dead-heat for Derby, 377-
Harvey, Major-General E., memoir and
services, 494.
Hasparren, affair of, 128, 130.
Hats, abolition of, 32.
Havelock, Colonel W., K.H.—
Killed in action, 215, 562, 565.
Memoir and services, 492.
Monument to, 581.
Hawker, General Sir S. , memoir and ser-
vices, 487.
Hearsey, Brigadier-General, despatch, Goo-
jerat, 238.
Height, standard, reduction of, 32.
Helmets, introduction, 32.
Hemery, Captain C. E. S., death of, 372.
Heidelberg, marches to —
From Bethel, 422.
From Pretoria, 424.
Hervey, Colonel Sir F. B.—
French officer's chivalrous conduct towards,
91.
Gold medal given to, 83.
Lucky escape of, 85.
Memoir and services, 489.
Orderly, devotion of, 115.
Right arm, loss of, 58.
Waterloo, battle of, 179.
Historical Record, xix-xxvi.
Hodgkinson, Rev., deputy chaplain, 29.
Holliday, Lieutenant and Riding-master,
death of, 244.
Holsters, discontinuance of, 201.
Honours, list of, viL
Horses —
Age, service, etc., 395.
Colman's patent shoe, 185.
Cost of, 27.
Height of, 33.
Officer carried almost into enemy's ranks by
runaway, 121.
Sagacity of, 86, 116, 133, 134, 172.
Stampedes of, 210, 361, 409.
Hospital-Sergeant, 207.
First appointment, 187.
Reduction, 349.
Huey, Assistant-Surgeon J., death of, 200.
Hurley, Adjutant —
Carabiniers, appointment to, 25.
Germany, service in, 25.
Hussar Hill, affair at, 406.
Hussars, Fourteenth converted into, 335.
ILLUSTRATIONS, list of, xxvii-xxx.
India, service in, 204-331, 561-613.
Indian Mutiny, casualties in, 333.
Ireland —
Cavalry in, 24.
Election duty in, 197, 342, 344, 345, 346, 348.
Tithe collection duty, 198.
Irishmen in regiment, number of, 28, 339, 395.
JAMAICA, drafts sent to, 38.
Jameson, Mr., first commissioned Quarter-
master, 64.
Jhansi —
Ranee of, killed in action, 298, 314.
Siege of, 283, 299.
Official despatches, 582.
Johannesburg, surrender of, 412.
Jones, Cornet C., death, 198.
Jones, General H.R., memoir and services, 481.
Jowra-Alipore, affair of, 319.
Official despatches, 608.
' K ' TROOP, gallant conduct of, 278.
Kerrison, General Sir E., Bart., G.C. H.,
K.C.B., memoir and services, 478.
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Khan, Khamdar, hanging of, 276.
Mahomed Fazil, hanging of, 276.
Khyber Pass, pursuit, 241.
Killed in action —
Men (see Casualties).
Officers (see Officers, killed in action).
Killigrew, Lieutenant- Colonel H., 484.
Kimberley, relief of, 405.
King, Dedication to His Majesty The, v.
King, Lieutenant-Colonel J. W., memoir and
services, 495.
King's Crest, authority to bear, 195.
Knipe, Captain, killed in action, 82, 84.
Knox, Colonel J. H., memoir and services, 502.
Koonch, action of, 301.
Official despatches, 585.
Krugersdorp, march to, 426.
L , Mr., Peninsular War, 169.
Ladysmith, relief of, 408.
Lances offered to regiment, 91.
Le Marchant, General, killed in action, 101.
Le Mirebalais, action of, 44.
Lee-Metford carbines, issue of, 392.
Leeuw Kop, action of, 410.
Leeuwpan, arrival at, 428.
Leeward Islands, service in, 42.
Lefroy's Cup, winners of, 459.
Leith, Lieutenant James —
Mentioned in despatches, 294, 590, 595.
V.C. awarded, 598.
Lieutenant-Colonels —
Memoirs and services, 484.
Succession of, 463.
Lieutenants, succession of, 511-59.
Lightning, officers killed by, 366.
Ligonier, Colonel, death, 17.
Lisbon, landing at, 55.
Lloyd, Lieutenant Ambrose —
Killed in action, 240.
Monument to, 581.
Lockwood, Brigadier-General, Goojerat des-
patch, 237.
Lohari, action of, 300.
Official despatches, 597.
Lome, Marquis of (see Argyll, Duke of).
Lyons, Lieutenant W., killed in action, 151.
Lytton, Lord, dining with officers, 356.
MACHADODORP, arrival at, 416, 418.
McMahon, Captain, mentioned in despatches,
587, 595-
Madrid-
March on, in.
Retreat from, 114.
Mahratta campaign, service in, 208.
Maidstone, monument to officers and men
killed in India, 581.
Majors —
Reductions of, 352.
Succession of, 511-59.
Manchester Ship Canal, opening of, 389.
Maps, list of, xxxi.
Marches, Regimental (music), 359, 435, 443.
Marksmanship, Royal Cambridge Challenge
Shield, winning of, 370, 377, 384.
Marmont, Marshal, wounded, 99.
Martini- Henry carbine, issue of, 369.
Martini-Metford carbine, issue of, 388.
Matilla, action of, 113.
Maya Pass, action of, 125.
Mayne, Captain-Lieutenant J., death of, 28.
Mehidpoor rebels, execution of, 261.
Meiklejohn, Lieutenant (Bombay Engineers),
killed in action, 297.
Mendionda, affair of, 128.
Mention in despatches (see Despatches where
Fourteenth mentioned).
Mess, officers' dress-call, 445.
Mess-tables presented to I3th Light Dragoons,
206.
Michell, General John, memoir and sen-ices,
486.
Midland counties, riots in, quelling of, 190,
191, 336, 337-
Miller, Captain Sir J., 'Sainfoin' winning
the Derby, 377.
Miller, Captain D. M., wounded and invalided
home, 410.
Military tournaments at Preston Park, 378.
Milligan, Cornet J. L., death of, 340.
Mills, Captain (Indian Cavalry), killed in
action, 261.
Modder River, action of, 405.
Mohamra, capture of, 250.
Monk's revenge, a, 162.
Mortagao, skirmish at, Jl.
Monuments to officers and men —
Biarritz, 151.
Maidstone, 581.
Mooi River, reconnaissance to, 428.
Moore, Sir John, death of, 55.
Morar, action of, 313.
Official despatches, 607.
Morton, Colonel C. F., memoir and services,
5°4-
Moustaches, wearing of, 206.
Muddenpore Pass, affair of, 279.
Mule, a, sagacity of, 77.
Mundesor, 258.
Capture of, 267.
- Official despatches, 588.
Murray, General Hon. Sir II., K.C.B.,
memoir and services, 479.
Music, Regimental, 435.
Musical ride at Naval Exhibition, 379.
Musketry, Sergeant - Instructor of, added to
establishment, 335.
Muster-rolls, 43.
Accuracy of, 33-
NAMES of Regiment, changes in (see Titles).
Napier, Admiral Sir Charles, righting in
Peninsular War, 1 68.
628
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Napier, General Sir C., appointment as
commander-in-chief in India, 241.
Sir R.—
Farewell order, 330.
Jowra-Alipore despatch, 608.
Morar despatch, 607.
Ranode despatch, 610.
Napier family, the, 168.
Napoleon, puns on, 170.
Natal, losses in (1881), 362.
Nationality of rank and file, 28, 339, 395.
Naval Exhibition, musical ride, 379.
Ncod, Captain — •
Gallant conduct of, 278, 294.
Mentioned in despatches, 592, 595, 603, 613.
Neeinuch, relief of, 267.
Nel's Hoek, affair of, 417.
Neville, Captain (Royal Engineers), killed in
action, 275.
Neville, Lieutenant- General Clement, memoir
and services, 468.
'Neville's Dragoons,' list of officers, 511, 512.
New Orleans, action of, 178.
Newcastle, fire at, rewards to men for services
at, 340.
Newcomin, Lieutenant- Colonel B., 484.
Newport riots, quelling of, 387.
Nitral's Nek, 414.
Nive, battle of, 138.
Nivelle, passage of, 126.
Norris, Lieutenant-Colonel J., 485.
Novell, Private, recommended for V.C., 320,
609.
Nuns riding with dragoons, 73.
O'NEILL, Private, gallant conduct of, 266.
Officers of regiment —
Alphabetical list of (1715-54), 514.
Children, number of, 355.
Dress-call for mess, 445.
Killed in action —
Cureton, Lieutenant A. J., 232.
Monument to, 581.
Denny, Captain P. R., 410.
Fitzgerald, Captain J. F., 215, 567.
Monument to, 581.
Havelock, Colonel W. (see Havelock,
Colonel W.).
Knipe, Captain, 82, 84.
Lloyd, Lieutenant A., 240.
Monument to, 581.
Lyons, Lieutenant W., 151.
Monuments to —
Biarritz, 151.
Maidstone, 581.
Redmayne, Lieutenant, 266.
Talbot, Lieutenant-Colonel Neil, 66, 67.
Killed by lightning, 366.
Lists of, 511-59.
Nationality, 395.
Promotion gained by success in recruiting,
52.
Officers of regiment {continued) —
Races won by, 461.
Religion, 394.
Roll of (1891), 431.
Waterloo, at, 179.
Wives, number of, 355.
' Old Challenge Cup,' winners of, 457.
Oporto, Bishop of, hatred of the English,
175-
Orderly, an, devotion of, 115.
Orderly-room clerk, 380.
Orderly-room sergeant, 380.
Origin of the regiment, I.
Orthes, battle of, 142, 148.
' Orthes' granted, 183.
PAARDEBERG, battle of, 405.
Packe, Sir Denis, 76.
Paget, General —
Prisoner, 113.
Wounded, 57.
Pain, Corporal W., standard captured by,
238.
Pakenham, Major-General, killed in action,
178.
Pancorba, affair of, Ii8.
Pay-
Chaplains, 48.
Land forces, 22.
Regimental, 13.
Paymasters, succession of, 526-56.
Penaranda, affair of, 103.
' Peninsula ' granted, 179.
Peninsular War —
Brotherton's, General, anecdotes of, 66, 70,
72, 73. 76, 77, 79, 84, 105, 114, 121,
127, 128-34.
Embarkation for, 54.
Medal, list of recipients, 153.
Plunder at Vittoria, 122-24.
Service in, 55-176.
Pension, good - service, Lieutenant - Colonel
Scudamore, 335.
Percy, Major Honourable H., at Waterloo,
179.
Percussion carbines, issue of, 20 1.
Persia, service in, 247-51*
' Persia' granted, 330.
Photogravures, list of, xxviii.
Pickering, Peter, chaplain, 5.
Pictures, etc., regimental, list of, 456.
Pistols, 28, 32, 38.
Discontinuance of, 201.
Plans, maps and, list of, xxxi.
Plate—
Brotherton's, General, collection, 122.
Regimental —
' Emperor,' the, 120.
List of, 455.
' Ramnuggur Cup,' 213.
Plunder at Vittoria, 122-24.
Po9o Velho, affair of, 81.
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
629
Poplar Grove, action of, 405.
Pork chops, prepared for Duke of Cambridge,
eaten by riding-master, 352.
Preston, battle of, I.
Preston, Captain A. E. T., death of, 351.
Preston Park —
Military tournament at, 378.
Parade at, 377.
Prestonpans (or Gladsmuir), battle of, 13.
Pretoria —
Camp at, 423.
March on, 411-13.
Prettejohn, Captain —
Mentioned in despatches, 588, 595, 596,
609, 6n, 612, 613.
Wounded, 325, 613.
Privates —
Gallant conduct of, 150, 263, 266, 320,
603.
V.C. recommended for, 320, 609.
'Whipping out' of, 23.
Promotion gained by success in recruiting,
52.
Prussian Eagle —
Authority to bear, 49.
Guidons on, 195.
Mistaken for the French, nearly causing
death, 173.
Worn by Sergeants and Corporals, 450.
' Puggrie-wallahs,' 252.
Punishments, 185.
Last cases of corporal, 339.
Punjaub, annexation of, 241.
' Punjaub ' granted, 244.
Puns on Napoleon, 170.
QUARTERMASTERS —
Commission rank given to, 64.
Succession of, 517-18, 530-59.
Quick March, Regimental, 443.
RACE-CUPS, Regimental, winners of, 457.
Races won by officers, 461.
' Ragged Brigade,' the, 135.
Ramnuggur, battle of, 212-22.
Official despatches, reports, etc., 561.
' Ramnuggur Cup," 213.
Ramsay, Captain Norman, at Fuentes d'Onor,
81.
Ranode, affair of, 324-26.
Official despatches, 610.
Rapin, Lieutenant-Colonel S., 484.
Rathgur Fort, siege and capture of, 274, 275.
Official despatches, 591.
Rawal Pindhi, surrender of Sikhs at, 241.
Read, Mr., Sergeant Master-tailor, 380.
Recruiting, 52, 196, 200, 204, 333.
Promotion gained by success in, 52.
Suspension of, 189, 197.
Redmayne, Lieutenant, killed in action,
266.
Regiment, the origin of, i.
Regimental Armourer-Sergeant, Abolition of,
375-
Paymaster-Sergeant, abolition of, 375.
Sergeant-Major, gallant conduct of (see
Clark, Regimental Sergeant- Major).
Religion of officers and men, 339, 394.
Reorganisation of cavalry, 395.
Reports on regiment, 28, 30, 36, 37, 50, 158,
182, 187, 196, 199, 201, 205, 209, 245,
246, 247, 336, 337, 338, 339, 346, 348,
349, 35°, 35i, 352, 356, 357, 3^3, 364,
365. 367, 37i, 372, 374, 375, 376, 377,
379, 381, 382, 384, 391.
Reserve squadron, strength of, 619.
Revolver- pistols, issue of, to sergeants, 398.
Richardson, Captain L. J. , German Emperor's
portrait presented to, 383.
Riding-masters —
First mention of, 183.
Succession of, 545-59.
Rietfontein —
Arrival at, 428.
Affair of, 412.
Rio Mandevilla, action of, 75.
Riots, service in quelling —
Bristol, 192-93.
Flintshire, 387, 388.
Midland counties, 190, 191, 336, 337.
Newport, 387,
Staleybridge, 336.
Wales, 191, 194.
Winsford, 386.
Robejts, Lord, speech by, 401.
Robertson, Second-Lieutenant Honourable H. ,
death of, 620.
Robertson, Captain Stuart, death of, 413.
Romana, Marquis of, 1 59.
Roode Kop, action of, 410.
Rose, Lieutenant (Bombay Infantry), killed in
action, 317.
Major-General Sir H. —
Betwa despatch, 593.
Calpe -• despatch, 598.
Farewell to Central India Field Force, 318.
Gwalior despatch, 603.
Jhansi despatch, 582.
Koonch despatch, 585.
Rathgur despatch, 591.
Private, gallant conduct of, 150.
Royal Cambridge Challenge Shield, winning
of, 370, 377, 384-
Royds, Captain C., death of, 200.
Russell, Major-General F. S., C.M.G.,
memoir and services, 503.
Major-General Sir W., Bart., C.B.,
memoir and services, 498.
Russia, Hereditary Grand Duke of, inspection
by, 20 1.
SABUGAL, action of, 79.
Saddler-Sergeant, first appointment of, 245.
630
HISTORICAL RECORD OF
Saddles-
Alteration in, 1 80.
New pattern, 396.
Sadulapore, battle of, 223.
' Sainfoin,' Derby won by, 377.
St. Domingo, service in, 42.
Casualties, 46, 47.
St. Gauclens, affair of, 145.
Salamanca —
Battle of, 98, 107.
Retreat from, 112.
' Salamanca ' granted, 183.
Sanchez, Don Julian, 86, 87.
Sans culotte ride by General Brotherton, 79.
Saugor, relief of, 273-77.
Schikfontein, 425.
School, Regimental-
Praise of, 189.
Pupils, number of, 185.
Schoolmaster-Sergeant, first appointment of,
91-
Scotland —
Election duty in, 199.
Service in, 13-18.
Scotsmen in regiment, number of, 339, 395.
Scouting, praise for, 364.
Scudamore, Major-General A., C.B. —
Good-service pension, 335.
Memoir and services, 497.
Mentioned in despatches, 584, 608.
Rose, Sir Hugh, thanks from, 280.
Wounded, 240.
Second-Lieutenants, succession of, 555-59.
Sergeant-Cook added to establishment, 339.
Sergeant- Instructor of Fencing added to estab-
lishment, 339.
Sergeant-Instructor of Musketry added to
establishment, 335.
Sergeant Master-Tailor added to establish-
ment, 380.
Sergeant-Majors, list of, 560.
Sergeant-Trumpeter, appointment of, 359.
Sergeants —
Gallant conduct of, 1 50, 260.
Revolvers given to, 398.
Services, table of, 446.
Sexmiro, affair of, 66.
Seymour, Lieutenant G. H. , killed by light-
ning, 366.
Shabracques, discontinuance of, 395.
Sheepskins, discontinuance of, 395.
Shenton, Quartermaster G. , death of, 242.
Sikhs, bravery of, 565.
Single combat —
Brotherton, Captain, and a French Officer,
1 06.
Brotherton's, Captain, opinions on, 170.
Sloper, Sir R., K.B. , memoir and services,
475-
Slow March, Regimental, 359, 435.
Smith, Lieutenant M. C., death of, 243.
Sobral, affair of, 76.
Song, Regimental, 65.
South Africa, service in, 359-62, 400-29,614-19.
Southampton, Lord, memoir and services, 473.
Southwell, Hon. H., taken prisoner, 128.
Springfield, arrival at, 407.
Squadron system —
Introduction of, 343.
Abandonment, 345.
Reintroduction, 385.
Staleybridge riots, quelling of, 336.
Stalker, General, death of, 250.
Standard height, reduction, 32.
Standards, 23, 32, 37.
Standing Orders, Regimental, 35, 37, 38.
Disuse of, 50.
Introduction by Colonel H. B. Hamilton,
51, 38i.
Stations, 5 17-59 (see also ' Historical Record,'
pp. xix-xxvi).
Steenkoppies, arrival at, 427.
Steeplechase Challenge Cup, winner of, 457.
Steuart, Lieutenant-General Charles, C.B. —
Jhansi despatch, 585.
Memoir and services, 496.
Stewart, Surgeon, mentioned in despatches,
603, 609.
Stinkhoutboom, arrival at, 427.
Stokes, Lieutenant W. A., death of, 358.
Straubenzee, Colonel van, account of Bristol
riots, 192, 193.
Strength of regiment, 25, 158, 247, 271, 332.
355. 368, 388, 399-
Stuart, Brigadier-General C. S. —
Farewell order, 330.
Mundesor despatch, 589.
Stuckey, Sergeant, 176.
Sub-Lieutenants, succession of, 550-53.
Subalterns' Cup, winners of, 460.
Sunstroke, deaths from, 322, 358.
Surgeons, succession of, 513-52.
Surtees, Cornet, death of, 197.
Swords —
New, 19, 23, 27, 37.
Straight swords, issue of, 202.
New pattern, solid-hilted, issue of, 369.
TALAVERA, battle of, 60, 61, 62.
' Talavera ' granted, 183.
Talbot, Lieutenant-Colonel Neil —
Killed in action, 66, 67.
Memoir and services, 488.
Tarbes, affair of, 144.
Thabanchu, affair of, 410.
Thackwell, Sir J., Goojerat despatch, 239.
Thesiger, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. W. —
Joining of, 244.
Memoir and services, 483.
Thirteenth (i3th) Light Dragoons, friendly
relations with, 135-46, 205-206, 398-99.
Thompson, General C. W., K.S.F.—
Chillian wallah, account of, 575.
Memoir and services, 482.
THE 14711 (KING'S) HUSSARS
631
Thompson, Major-General P.S., C.B.—
Memoir and services, 499.
Thanks from Viceroy of India, 322.
Thompson, Regimental Sergeant-Major, death
of, 361.
Tithe collection duty in Ireland, 198.
Titles of regiment, vii.
' Campbell's Dragoons,' 24.
' Dormer's Dragoons,' I.
List of officers, 511.
'Fitzroy's Dragoons,' 26.
' I4th Light Dragoons,' 32.
' I4th (Duchess of York's Own) Light
Dragoons,' 48.
' 1 4th (King's) Light Dragoons,' 189.
1 I4th (King's) Hussars,' 335.
' Hamilton's Dragoons,' list of officers, 512,
5.13-
' Nevill's Dragoons,' list of officers, 511,
512-
' Tyrawley's Dragoons,' list of officers, 513.
Todd, Captain, mentioned in despatches, 585,
612.
Torres Vedras —
Marquisate conferred on Duke of Welling-
ton, 93.
Occupation of, 75.
Toulouse, battle of, 145, 151.
Townsend, Colonel John —
Memoir and services, 491.
Prisoner of war, 144, 150.
Transfers to i8th Hussars, 348.
Tremayne, Captain J. H. (i 3th Hussars), 136.
Tritton, Lieutenant H. M., fatal accident,
376.
Troop Sergeant- Major —
Gallant conduct of, 260.
Introduction of, 64.
Troop system —
Abandonment, 343, 385.
Reintroduction, 345.
Trots (music) —
Cavalry Brigade, 441.
Regimental, 438.
Trumpet-Major —
First appointment, 77.
Sergeant-Trumpeter, alteration to, 359.
Trumpets, new, 27, 38.
Tugela, crossing the, 408.
Turbans, wearing of, by troops in India, 252.
Turkey, orders for, 245.
Countermanded, 246.
Tuyl, battle of, 40.
Tyrawley, Field-Marshal Lord, memoir and
services, 470.
' Tyrawley's Dragoons,' list of officers, 513.
UNIFORM, 27, 32, 34, 183, 191, 204, 252, 395.
Band, 198, 374.
— History of, 448.
— Property of soldier, 390.
Usagre, action of, 95.
VAALKRANZ, action of, 407.
Vandeleur, General Sir J. O. —
Farewell inspection, 189.
Memoir and services, 477.
Vatass, Peter (chaplain) —
Appointment, 16.
Leave on account of illness, 22, 24, 26, 28,
31, 38.
On leave for fifty-three years, 48.
Retirement, 48.
' Velaitee,' meaning of, 291 «.
Venta de Serra, affair of, 78.
Vernon, Lieutenant E., 22.
Vernor, Sergeant, gallant conduct of, 150.
Veterinary-Surgeons, succession of, 526-53.
Vic de Bigorre, affair of, 151.
Victoria, Queen —
Inspections and Reviews, 202, 335, 383.
Jubilee Review, 369.
Wedding-day escort, 203.
Victoria Cross —
Brown, Major E. D. , 419, 619.
Leith, Lieutenant J., 294, 595, 598.
Vittoria, battle of, 1 1 8.
Plunder at, 122-24.
' Vittoria' granted, 183.
Vivian, Sir Hussey, 130.
Vlakfontein, 427.
Volunteers for India, 332.
WALDEGRAVE, Charles, 7.
Wales, H.R. H. The Prince of, dining with
officers, 335.
Wales, riots, quelling of, 191, 194.
Wallets, introduction of, instead of holsters,
201.
Walmoden, General, 39.
Warde, General George, memoir and services,
474-
Warrant officers —
First appointment, 359.
List of, 560.
Waterloo, battle of, officers of regiment nt,
179-
Watervalboven, affair of, 416.
Webb, Lieutenant-General D., memoir and
services, 474.
' Webley ' revolvers, issue of, to sergeants, 398.
Wellesley, Sir Arthur (see Wellington, Duke
of).
Wellington, Duke of, 56.
Ciudad Rodrigo, dukedom of, conferred
on, 93.
Politeness of, 167.
Regiment praised by, 58.
Severity of, 166.
Soldiers' confidence in, 165.
Torres Vedras, marquisate of, conferred
on, 93.
Wounded, 149.
Wepener, relief of, 410.
West Indies, service in, 42.
632
THE i4TH (KING'S) HUSSARS
West Indies, casualties, 46, 47.
White Horse of Hanover, authority to bear,
20.
' Whipt out,' Private West, 23.
Whitney, Lieutenant-Colonel (i 3th Dragoons),
killed in action, 17.
Wigstrom, Assistant-Surgeon, death of, 245.
Wild pigs, shooting of, 112-14.
Wilkie, General John, memoir and services,
482.
Willoughby, Sir John, dead-heat for Derby,
377-
William iv., inspection by, 189.
Winsford riots, quelling of, 386.
Winton, Private, mentioned in despatches, 603.
Wives in regiment, number of, 185, 355.
Wound, an extraordinary, 164.
Wounded in action (see Casualties).
Wright, Lieutenant-Colonel W., memoir and
services, 484.
YORK, H.R.H. Frederica, Duchess of, and
Princess Royal of Prussia, 48.
York, T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of,
escort for, 398.
Young Pretender, the, 13.
ZWARTKOPJES, affair of, 416.
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